Upcoming & Past Conferences

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

2011 OCT: Resilient Societies - Governing Risk and Vulnerability

Change is all around us and the rate of change is accelerating. Change in demography, trade, and financial structures; but most of all in the use and availability of natural resources. Climate change is high on the agenda with increasing impacts from storms, floods and droughts; but even without the added effects of climate change, the combination of unequal distribution of resources, increasing population, water and energy demands are creating risks and making us more vulnerable and heightening conflict. ... read more

2010 OCT: Tentative Governance In Emerging Science and Technology

Internationally, the conference will be run as a key event of the European Forum for ‘Studies into Policies for Research and Innovation’ (Eu-SPRI Forum; succeeding the PRIME Network of Excellence). ... read more