Upcoming & Past Conferences

2013 MARCH: Conference "Improving energy access through climate finance: picking the winners"

2012 OCT: S.NET 2012 Conference

2012 MAY: Eu-SPRI Early Career Researcher Conference

The rationale for the conference is the persistent failure of academics to convincingly understand and explain, let alone diagnose and solve, the problem of putting research knowledge at the service of society. Over the last quarter century, science, research and innovation policies have slowly been evolving towards accepting the importance of valorisation: placing knowledge at the service of its funding societies. ... read more

2012 APR: Research Conference on Microinsurance

The potential of microinsurance as a market mechanism for the reduction of vulnerability of low income households has attracted the attention of the commercial sectors as well as donors, government and NGOs. It is recently being estimated that the global micro insurance market is worth USD 40 billion to the insurance industry and that it could reach out to 2.6 billion low income people worldwide (Swiss Re, 2010). ... read more