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White Paper: “Smart European Energy Architecture”

ESMIG - European Smart Metering Industry Group

5 October 2011 - Amsterdam The implementation of smart metering is crucial to the development of the European energy efficiency programs. The drive for lower-carbon emissions combined with greatly improved efficiency on the demand side will empower consumers to select automatically the suppliers that provide the best value-added services capable to offer outstanding consumer focused programs.

New research on energy efficiency and consumer benefits of smart metering – results of a global mass pilot comparison

ESMIG - European Smart Metering Industry Group

5 October 2011 - Amsterdam ESMIG, the European Smart Metering Industry Group, welcomes the publication of the “Empower Demand” report on ’The potential of smart meter enabled programs to increase energy and system benefits: a mass pilot comparison’, written and published by VaasaETT. 

Abdou Diouf et Jean Charest lancent le Forum mondial de la langue française

ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE

Ce mercredi 5 octobre 2011, au siège de l’OIF à Paris, Abdou Diouf, Secrétaire général de la Francophonie, et Jean Charest, premier ministre du Québec, ont lancé le Forum mondial de la langue française qui aura lieu dans la ville de Québec, du 2 au 6 juillet 2012.

EHFG 2011: Globalisation requires coordinated health policy approach - experts discuss reforms of the WHO

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

Globalisation is affecting health systems and thus requires strong international coordination mechanisms. Experts at the European Health Forum Gastein are discussing how the WHO can manage to assert its leading role in coordinating global health issues because in view of many new actors on the international health stage. Among the major issues related to the organisation’s reform process is the role that NGOs as well as international corporations will play alongside the member states.

EHFG 2011: Learning from East's reform rollercoaster ride

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

Hungary’s Care Coordination Pilot, introduced in 1999, and abolished during a political debacle in 2008, is a vivid example of the complexity of reforming health services, especially their finances, experts reported at the European Health Forum Gastein, discussing lessons that Western Europe could learn from health care reforms in the East.

EHFG 2011: Plugging the gaps in Europe's Health Security

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

Professionals back EU-wide action on cross-border health emergencies: A new cross-border Health Security initiative should refine EU preparations for, and response to, health crises ranging from terrorist attacks to SARS epidemics, experts reported at the European Health Forum Gastein. If Europe was to be serious about facing up to major threats a real change of mind-set was of the essence, according to specialists.  

EHFG 2011: EU Health services "suffering from virus"

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

In a powerful exposé of what he called “a virus in our health services”, EHFG Founder-President Prof Günther Leiner used his opening speech to the European Health Forum Gastein to attack the vast number of inappropriate drug prescriptions and unnecessary checks and treatments in the EU. It was a racket, he said, opening the EHFG debate on „Innovation and Wellbeing“, “an inexcusable waste of resources” which could also be positively dangerous.

EHFG 2011: Diseases of civilisation breaking economic growth

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

Prime case of death: More than 63% of all deaths in the world are caused by so- called non-communicable diseases. In the WHO-region of Europe it’s even higher – 86%. The direct and indirect economic costs are huge – to the point of posing a real threat to growth in crisis-hit economies. Therapy alone is not enough, World Bank strategist Dr. Armin Fidler told the European Health Forum Gastein. Effective prevention should concern every area of policy-making, not only that of public health.

EHFG 2011: Staying young - with a little help from our friends

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

With the prospect of over-60s for the first time outnumbering Europeans of working age next year, the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing is about to choose its first priority actions, coordinating the work of stakeholders across Europe. The European Health Forum Gastein today heard details of the ambitious COURAGE project to develop, by intense study of three countries, more scientifically exact measures of health and health-related outcomes.

Europe’s leading innovators compete for EuropaBio’s Most Innovative Biotech SME Award 2011

EuropaBio

EuropaBio has announced the top five finalists for its 2011 Most Innovative EU Biotech SME Award. The judging panel composed of G. Steven Burrill, Founder and CEO of Burrill & Company, Tom Saylor, CEO of Arecor and Chairman of EuropaBio’s SME Platform, Paul Ruebig, MEP and Chair of the SME Union and Nathalie Moll, Secretary General of EuropaBio, faced an arduous task in selecting the top five candidates among the many excellent submissions received from across the EU.

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