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The Thessaloniki Innovation Camp on Resilience 2017 aims to develop grassroots ideas and projects on how to improve resilience and systematically address risks to the safety and well-being of citizens.

The camp offers the opportunity for participants coming from academia, business, civil society and local governance to reflect on how to better deal with societal shocks and stresses.

Participation is free of charge for all people with the desire to develop creative ideas into innovative societal solutions.

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." (UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

How can we build a fair world? Science and art (SciArt) meet to provoke conversation and inspire answers to this question at the second Resonances exhibition about Fair/Fear.

Resonances II is a mix of debates, performances, conferences and an exhibition organised by the European Commission's science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci.

The European Commission's Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre (BKC) will be launched at this event as the Commission's central knowledge hub on the bioeconomy.

The EU PVSEC is the largest international conference for photovoltaic research, technologies and applications, and at the same time a top international PV Industry Exhibitions. It gathers the global PV community to conduct business, to network and to present and discuss the latest developments and innovations in photovoltaics. It is the world renowned science-to-science, business-to-business and science-to-industry platform with a full and only focus on the global PV solar sector.

This symposium will present the JRC Foresight Study "Delivering on EU Food Safety and Nutrition
in 2050 – Future challenges and policy preparedness"*, commissioned by DG SANTE, share views and food policies of Member States and will provide a platform for a multi-disciplinary discussion on the Future of Food in the EU with stakeholders representing a wide range of perspectives related to the entire food chain.

The “Food Fraud” congress, hosted by the BVL and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), will centre around the revision of the EU Control Regulation, which came into force in spring 2017. The new legal situation provides the framework for dealing in more depth with the implications of the new Regulation on the subject of food fraud. The event is addressed to all actors and stakeholders in this field.

The Dresden Nexus Conference is a platform to discuss current research and initiatives applying the Nexus Approach and the benefits for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

This year the International GNSS Summer School will be hosted by the Norwegian Space Centre and held at Longyearbyen, Svalbard – Spitsbergen, Norway, on 4-15 September 2017.

The The summer school is held in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA), the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and four internationally renewed universities: the Bundeswehr Universität München,  ISAE Supaero, Stanford University and Technical University (TU) Graz.

Save the date for an upcoming stakeholders conference on the Digital Competence Framework (DigComp) and the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp).

The event will be hosted by DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission