Local organisers are the Ministry of Education and Research, Council for Scientific Research in Universities (CNCSIS), Chamber of Commerce. The first day is devoted to Research, innovation and competitiveness of Europe. Policies, programmes, initiatives are presented, in the contextof the 7th Framework Programme and of the Competitiveness and Innovation Program of the EU. The experience of NMS and ACC in RTDI strategies and programmes, including

Web page: www.plasma.uaic.ro/inter-Academia2006 The inter-Academia conferences always aimed at gatherering scientists and students from the above-mentioned universities on a non-exclusive basis, in order to exchange information, new ideas and to foster lasting co-operation relationships in both science and education fields The 2005 inter-Academia conference is, therefore, focussed on the presentation of the last-hour achievements in both basic and

The Conference is organized by the Faculty of Physics and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Experimental Research of the Babeş-Bolyai University in collaboration with the National Institute of Research and development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies and the Romanian Physical Society. Following the lines of the first conference organized in September 2004 in Cluj-Napoca, this second edition will bring together physicists, chemists and biologists

Date: 18 – 20 September, 2006 Location: Wroclaw, Poland http://www.enbis.org/wroclawconference/callforpapers.html Special areas of interest ENBIS has interest groups in the following areas: - Data mining and warehousing - Design of experiments - New directions in stochastic modelling - Measurement uncertainty - Operational risk management - Quality improvement, including Six Sigma, and process modelling and control - Reliability and safety - Statistical