Relevant Conferences 2

Beauty and Power of designed PV, 22 June 2016 Munich

The sixth edition of the Special Session Photovoltaics | Forms | Landscapes will take place on Wednesday, 22 June 2016

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
In conjunction with the 32nd EUPVSEC, and InterSolar 2016, the European Commission JRC and ENEA, with the assistance of ETA-Florence Renewable Energies are organising the 6th edition of the special event PHOTOVOLTAICS | FORMS | LANDSCAPES.
The event higlights how architects and researchers, project and product developers take up the challenge of letting photovoltaic systems interact with buildings and landscapes.
A call for proposals is open to collect case studies and research projects to be presented as oral/visual presentations.
Architects, developers and researchers wishing to present already completed or ongoing projects, can apply using the online form

Deadline: Friday, 13th May 2016
A committee of distinguished experts will select the works to be delivered as oral/visual presentations. All the selected works will be published in the event proceedings.
For any information: info@pv-landscapes.com

Nordic-Baltic Partnership Forum Planning resilient and livable regions, 24th September 2016, Estonia

Green growth forum Rohevik will be held together with the Nordic Council of Ministries on 22nd of September 2016 in Tartu, Estonia. The main topic will be smart cities and urban-rural connection in relation to energy and food production. Last year’s presentations and more info on the conference are available at http://www.rohevik.ee/index_en.html
The European Agricultural Research Initiative (EURAGRI) annual conference will be held on 25th to 27th of September 2016 in Estonian University of Life Sciences. The outcome of the conference is also a paper for the European Commission on the most pressing issues in the field. This year’s topic will focus on bioeconomy and agriculture’s role in developing the renewable energy sector. The specific topics to be covered will be clarified in February 2016. Information on previous conferences (presentations, programme) can be found on their homepage at

XV International Scientific Conference "RE & IT - 2016" Renewable Energies and Innovative Technologies, 10-11 June 2016, Smolyan/Bulgaria

24th Colloquium of the Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Sustainability of Rural Systems: Balancing Heritage and Innovation, 17-22 July 2016 Liege, Belgium

The thematic sessions will address the following six themes:

• New technologies and the new rural ways of life
• Agronomic innovations and their social and environmental impacts
• From ecosystem services to agroservices
• Energy issues in rural areas
• Multifunctional forests and countryside
• Tourism and recreation

Please pay special attention to session No. 4: Energy issues in rural areas

Fieldwork: Three days of fieldwork will deal with the above themes and include one-day discussion at the Libramont agricultural, forestry and agri-food fair that welcomes more than 200,000 visitors each year.

Abstracts: Abstracts of no more than 300 words in length should be sent to Charline.Dubois@ulg.ac.be by March 1st 2016

Registration fee: 500€ (Participation of the Conference and Fieldwork, Conference materials, Daily Coffee Breaks, Daily lunches, Welcome Reception and Conference Dinners) Early Bird: 390€ (by April 15th) Early Bird: PhD Student and scholar from UN developing regions 300€ (by April 15th)

Proceedings: Are planned in two special issues of Belgeo and BSGLg in 2017. Both Belgian journals are peer reviewed and indexed by Scopus. Details relating to submission will be circulated later. The book of abstracts will be published on-line.

More information is available on the web site.

Aesthetics of the Energy Landscape, 27-28 May 2016 in Luleå, Sweden

This workshop will focus on the contribution of the humanities disciplines—history, art history, literature, philosophy, and cultural studies—to studying attitudes toward the envirotechnical landscape, although other disciplines such as cultural geography, sociology, and Science & Technology Studies are welcome to apply as well. It will run over 2 days in Luleå, Sweden. There will be 10 participants including the organizer. Airfare and hotel accommodations will be paid for the participants. The planned output is a themed issue of an interdisciplinary journal using selected papers from the workshop.

Proposals: Submit proposals consisting of an abstract (300-400 words) and a short CV (no more than 2 pages) to Dolly Jørgensen (dolly@jorgensenweb.net) no later than 15 January 2016.

27th PECSRL Conference in Austria with special session RELY, 5th-9th September 2016 Innsbruck and Seefeld/Austria

We are pleased to announce the 27th session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, on “Mountains, uplands, lowlands. European landscapes from an altitudinal perspective” to be held from 5–9 September 2016 in Innsbruck and Seefeld, Tyrol/Austria.

Up-to-date information is available on the homepage, including formats, preliminary programme & topics and important dates. The conference organizers now welcome abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Please pay special attention to session No. S5: Renewable energies in mountain landscapes: conflicts and synergies, the special RELY session. Furthermore there will be several sessions proposed by different members of our COST Action.

"The Role of Social Sciences in a Low-Carbon Energy Mix", June 13-15, 2016 in Stockholm/Sweden

Call for abstracts for the SENIX Conference: The SENIX Conferences help bridging the gap between present day conditions and full recognition of the necessity to bring in the social issues up-front in energy policies, programmes and projects. On May 25-27, 2015 the first SENIX conference was successfully held in Stockholm and the programme is available on the web site.

The second SENIX conference will be held on June 13-15, 2016. Compared to SENIX 2015 the coverage of different topics related to energy production and consumption will be broadened and a major step towards the creation of a “social platform” for energy issues will be taken.

You are now welcome to submit abstracts and to register for the conference at the conference web site. For abstract submission, please follow the instructions for submission and indicate to which topic your abstract belongs and which energy sources the presentation relates to. The topics are grouped in four categories: A) Social and political challenges, B) Decision-making processes – governance, C) Local and regional socio-economic impacts and concerns and E) Ethics. Furthermore, please indicate if you prefer oral or poster presentation. If the number of preferred oral presentations exceeds available session lots, the programme committee will have to set a limit for oral presentations and ask the authors(s) to provide a poster.

Ecosystem Services – Landscape Ecology Integrative Role 22th-24th June 2016, Poland

The Polish Association of Landscape Ecology and the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw are the organisers.

As the ecosystem services concept is widely used in theory and practice all over the world we hope to build the platform for wide and fruitful discussion of relations between ecosystem services and landscape ecology. We would like to direct the debate on the following topics:

• landscape as multi-dimensional frame for ecosystem services mapping and assessment
• landscape function and functioning – natural capital – ecosystem services
• tools and methods of landscape and ecosystem services diagnosis and monitoring
• landscape and ecosystem services management in practice – challenges, determinants, relationships.

Abstract submission wass open until 31st January 2016

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