The 21st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition will be held in Copenhagen from 3 - 6 June 2013. The EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) will be coordinating the Technical Programme. The event will cover all aspects of biomass from research to industry and markets. It will also include an industrial exhibition that brings biomass scientists and engineers together with the biomass industry. More details are available on the conference website.

Booking has opened for the EC information and brokerage day on the FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO call within the 2013 Environment Work Programme, and will take place in Brussels on 15 January 2013. The event will also be webstreamed and the agenda is now also available. The aim of the event is to provide guidance on the preparation of proposals, to update proposers on recent progress by the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Water and to allow for brokerage amongst the participants. For more information please click here.

Registration for the fifth annual Conference on EU Space Policy, which will take place in Brussels on 29 - 30 January 2013, is now open. The conference, entitled 'EU Space Policy: Building up a Global Tool for Global Challenges', aims to bring together the main political and industry decision makers along with representatives of national and European institutions, authorities, industry, research centres and civil society.
For further information and to register for this event click here.

17-18 January, Oxford, UK
The two-day professional development and collaborative learning lab is open to research staff and intends on offering cutting edge insights and hands-on tools in building effective and fulfilling collaborations, research groups and knowledge-exchange partnerships. To register please visit the Vitae website.