Conferences

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is organising the "World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2008: My life, my work, my safe work - Managing risk in the work environment" on 28 April 2008.
On 28 April 2008, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is organising the "World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2008: My life, my work, my safe work - Managing risk in the work environment"
World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an international campaign to promote safe, healthy, (...)

The German Network of Health Promoting Hospitals (DNGfK) is organising a conference on "Hospitals and health services in the health society : Quo vadis, HPH?" on 14 to 15 May 2008.
The German Network of Health Promoting Hospitals (DNGfK) is organising a conference on "Hospitals and health services in the health society : Quo vadis, HPH?" on 14 to 15 May 2008.
The HPH conference 2008 will discuss these questions around four topics:
Quo vadis, HPH: Health promotion by re-orienting core (...)

The MASTERMIND Group will organise the 6th International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness on 15 to 17 May 2008.
The MASTERMIND Group will organise the 6th International Conference on Nutrition and Fitness on 15 to 17 May 2008.
The Conference serves as a forum for discussion on issues concerning both the scientific community and the general public. The themes are Nutrition and Physical Activity because they are closely related to our general state of health, as evidenced by recent data. (...)

The European Commission is organising an "EU High-Level Conference on Mental Health". The event will take place on the 13 June 2008 in Brussels.
This high-level event will be hosted by European Commissioner for Health, Ms Androulla Vassiliou, and she is preparing it with her colleague Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Mr Vladimír Špidla.
The conference will be a follow-up to the consultation on the Commission’s Green Paper on Mental Health of (...)

The Open Society Institute’s Roma Health Project (RHP) is encouraging young Roma activists and civil society members to attend the European Youth and AIDS seminar organized by ARAS - Romanian Association against AIDS in Bucharest (Romania), on June 27-28, 2008. A limited number of scholarships are available to cover participation costs.
Supported by the European Commission, DG SANCO and by OSI’s Roma Health Project, the European Youth and AIDS seminar is the last of a series of 9 (...)

A Conference on "European cities integrating migrants - From Amsterdam to Zagreb: Fostering a dialogue about successful policies" will be hold on 7 April 2008 at the Committee of the Regions.
Background
The CLIP conference is jointly organised by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the Committee of the Regions, the European Commission and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.
Objectives
Participants will debate (...)

The University of Vienna will hold final conference of the project “Virtually Informed: The Internet in the medical field” on 25-26 January 2008.
The conference is organised by the Department of Social Studies and its aim is to investigate the role and impact of the World Wide Web as a health information source in the Austrian medical context.
Concretely, issues as the notion of “informed patient” will be contrasted with the doubts of policy makers about people’s (...)

A Brussels-based media group organises a stakeholder lunchtime workshop entitled Healthy and active lifestyle - Whose responsibility? on 16 October 2007, in Brussels (Belgium).
Everybody agrees that eating habits, physical activity, smoking, and drinking affect our health. On the other side, opinions on who is responsible of our eating behaviour, how much we exercise, drink, or smoke seem to diverge.
The aim of the workshop is to exchange views on the respective roles and responsibilities (...)

The European Federation of National Organisations working with People who are Homeless (FEANTSA) is organising a European conference and an information day on 18 and 19 October in Zaragoza, Spain.
The conference is intended to present the main findings of the European Report on homelessness and employment. But it also stands as an opportunity to meet experts from across Europe, have access to the latest publications on this topic, and visit various employment projects for people who are (...)

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) will hold a conference in London at the EMEA premises on Wednesday 3 October 2007 regarding the operation of the Clinical Trials Directive (Directive 2001/20/EC).
The scope of the EMEA conference is on EU clinical trials legislation and its implementation in the context of clinical trials of medicinal products.
The objectives of the EMEA conference:
provide an overview of the experience to date with the operation of the Directives 2001/20/EC and (...)