The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) is an unprecedented voluntary collaboration between the European Commission, European trade associations, and companies from seven industry sectors.
“The Big Conversations You Need to Have to Keep Your Meetings Alive” is the title and focus of the 2016 Association Meetings Conference that will be held in London the day before The Meetings Show on Monday 13th June at Church House, Westminster.
La Cité Nantes Events Center has been confirmed as one of 15 finalists in the 2016 edition of the globally recognized AIPC Apex Award competition for “Best Client Rated Convention Centre”.
Bosch Security Systems is pleased to announce that its DICENTIS Wireless Conference System has won the prestigious InAVation technology award 2016 in the category “Most inAVative Meetings and Congress Technology”, prevailing over strong competition.
In order to encourage international multi-day conferences in Holland, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, NBTC Holland Marketing and some twenty industry partners set up the Pre-financing & Guarantee Fund (VGF).
This year Glasgow City Marketing Bureau is rolling out its campaign about the next generation of legacy measurement, a bespoke research model designed to report the key impacts of conferences taking place in the city.
Prague Convention Bureau has already organised the 5th international educational seminar, this time with the title “Heading to the Top in MICE Digital Era”.
Kenes Group, a leading Professional Conference Organizer (PCO) and Association Management company, has just launched a new service dedicated to small and medium sized events, Kenes M+. The new service line will be bringing to the table fresh entrepreneurial spirit and agility and will act as a platform to support growth in educational events.
The software company dimedis has revolutionized the social media marketing of trade fairs and events together with the US/UK based Advocate Marketing solution, InGo Inc. As the exclusive representative for InGo in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), dimedis has integrated the social media Advocate Marketing functions from InGo into the entrance and visitor management solution FairMate.
On Saturday March 21st, during the annual TEFAF meeting of the convention ambassador club Amici ad Mosam, Mayor Annemarie Penn-te Strake will hand out the Brightlands Convention Award 2015 to the person who has meant most to the Maastricht region as a convention destination.
NewcastleGateshead is set to host the international European Thyroid Association (ETA) in September 2018 – an event secured on the back of the destination’s strengths in science and healthcare as well as its historic links to the development of Thyroid hormone replacement therapy.
There are numerous outstanding positive factors in Switzerland’s favour as a destination for congresses staged on an international scale. The ten most important and largest national congress centres are marketed jointly under the label of Swiss Convention Centres. They make an important contribution to promoting Switzerland’s image abroad.
SolarPower Europe is a member-led association representing more than 130 organisations active along the whole solar value chain Tina Stojanovic, Event Manager, tells us how they operate and what challenges they’ve had to overcome over the years.
With over 11,000 participants in the 32nd German Cancer Congress and around 12,000 attendees at CISCO Live 2016, two attendance records marked the beginning of the Messe Berlin conference season in 2016.
The MCI Group, a key driver of innovation in global meetings, events, association and congress industries, has announced the rebranding of Agency Coulter, its division that focus on luxury brands to Black Flower Agency.
After a very positive year in 2014, the Barcelona International Convention Centre closed last year having hosted 111 events, with revenue up 3%.
The diversity of the events hosted was noteworthy, some with huge media coverage prestige and others of scientific importance, as was the increase in the percentage of repeat clients, now at 30.6%.
The EuroConference presents the ideal platform for improving your knowledge and understanding of associations while increasing networking opportunities.
The city was honoured to welcome close to 4,000 meeting professionals as they learned, networked and discovered for themselves why Vancouver is an internationally leading convention destination.
Images that portray an ultra-modern and "charming" conference centre, illustrating new business opportunities, the quality of the spaces and services, and the beauty of the destination - Rimini.
The European Association Summit (EAS), the key event during which international associations exchange information, share knowledge, and network, is now accepting registrations. The annual conference for association sector professionals will run from 31 May through 2 June 2016 in Brussels.
The European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) has decided to choose the combined Barcelona and Vienna offer for their Annual Congress in the years 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021.
Berlin is in high demand as a conference city: Last year, 11.4 million participants came to conferences, congresses and incentives in the German capital. This represents a growth of four per cent. The number of events grew by three per cent to about 135,000 in the same time period. These are the results of the latest convention statistics 2015* from the Berlin Convention Office of visitBerlin.
How does a well-managed board become a key success factor for European associations?
Summary:
For many Association managers “managing” the board of their association is a challenging experience! They are very efficient running the day-to-day activities of their business and best practices in this field are widely shared with their peers. This is not true for tips on how to work with their board.
In this issue of Headquarters: an in-depth report on Riga as an convention destination, the thoughts of ESAE and UIA on how to manage association boards, a profile of SolarPower Europe, what to expect from the Associations World Congress in Berlin... and more.
The Olot-Girona-Lloret MICE tourism project was unveiled on 4 February at an event held at the headquarters of the Garrotxa Regional Archive, where the Mayor of Girona, Albert Ballesta, the Mayor of Lloret de Mar, Jaume Dulsat, and the Mayor of Olot, Josep M. Corominas, presented a pioneering alliance in Catalonia which responds to the desire of the three municipalities to work together to become a point of attraction for business tourism.
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