A 'smart meter' is an electronic device that can measure and control energy or water consumption through two-way interaction between a measurement unit and a control unit. Meters are available for electricity, gas and water gas consumption. The difference between a smart meter and conventional metering is the storage of data usage, identification of resource use by individual appliances/machines, and potentially the control of the resource use.
8th and 9th of June 2015 in Barcelona - IV European Platform for Sport Innovation Conference: "Sports Innovation in the City"
PARTICIPANTS: Attendees from industry, universities, sports performance, technology, clubs, policy makers, tourism, etc.
Clusters Summer School, Barcelona, May 2015
The known Clusters Summer School returns to Europe in May, co-organized by the European Foundation for Cluster Excellence and IESE Business School, under the name of Regional and City Competitiveness School. Both entities have joint their expertize in cluster based economic development and competitiveness, to design an even stronger program by incorporating a city perspective.
Expo 2015, with the theme "Feeding the planet / Energy for life", is getting close. For the occasion, Milan and Lombardy will become an international hub for food and nutrition. To make the most of this unique opportunity, Parco Tecnologico Padano (PTP) organizes the CLUSTER FOOD WEEK, on May 2-8.
Expo 2015, with the theme "Feeding the planet / Energy for life", is getting close. For the occasion, Milan and Lombardy will become an international hub for food and nutrition.
The GROW your REGIOn conference was a dynamic event bringing together regional policy makers and members of the business community. The aim was to find joint avenues to help drive growth through innovation, collaboration and the breaking of sectoral and regional silos.
Malta Water Week will take place in Malta from the 25th till the 27th of March 2015 (on the 23rd and 24th March, there will be closed meetings involving the WE@EU partners).
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You may also want to have a look at the event's dedicated website at the following link: http://www.maltawaterweek.eu/
24, 25, 26 March 2015, Dabrowa Gornicza, Silesia, Poland Cluster World Congress is the industry event for the international clustered environment. This is the first time that the world will take place so big and thematically oriented clusters meeting.
It was a first occasion to gather together and starting working towards the ambitious objectives set by the EC, in terms of joint internationalization and joint support to the EU SMEs economic environment.
The ESCP foor Food, Health & Wellbeing partners had its official first meeting on Tuesday the 24th of February in Milan.
From the 6th to 7 th of May 2015, a delegation of 26 cluster representatives from 12 European countries participated in a Cluster Matchmaking Event on agro-food manufacturing valuechains in EUROMED countries organised in the scope of the Milan Expo 2015.
On the 6th and 7th of May 2015, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs together with the Enterprise Europe Network conducted a Cluster Matchmaking Event on agro-food manufacturing value-chains in EUROMED countries.
Eurochile signed a collaboration agreement with the "Feeding the Planet" consortium during the inauguration of the seminar "Chile and Europe in Strategic Alliance for Food Production". The objective of this Agreement is to develop business opportunities and partnerships in the agro-food and biotechnology sector, to the benefit of innovative and technology-based firms, and innovative food companies located in Chile and in the three clusters’ Regions.