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About the Conference

The Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB) is staging an EU funded project in five research areas. As a significant event in the project an international conference is being organised with the aim to exchange new scientific results among the participants. The topical issues of the conference correspond with the main research fields of the project.

Well-known key note speakers from different fields of the economy, political decision makers and scholars from the EU and China will be invited. In the second part of the conference submitted and accepted papers will be presented in five sections in topical issues.

If you – as a professor, researcher, expert or PhD student – are engaged in one of the listed topics below, please don't hesitate to submit an abstract in order to ensure your participation as a lecturer in the sections.

Date, Venue, and Fees

The conference will take place at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, on 10-11 November, 2011.
Participation at the conference is free of charge and financed by the above mentioned project. It requires confirmed registration. The registration form will be available later.
Travel and accommodation arrangements should be made and financed by the participants individually.

Conference themes

Abstracts are welcome in the following areas: 
I. Sustainable development – liveable region – liveable landscape
1. Economic and social conditions of sustainability
2. Sustainability and liveable landscape
3. Challenges of global climate change

II. International economic trends and the competitiveness of enterprises
4. International economic processes and the competitiveness of enterprises
5.  Economic policies and the competitiveness
6.  EU recovery and the role of China

III. Challenges and solutions in food science
7. Food safety
8. Food security
9. New technologies in food processing 
10. New breeding genes

IV. Knowledge-based economy and the conditions for developing innovative views and
R & D performances
11. Innovation trends
12. Innovation management and the role of IT
13. Marketable higher education

V. Efficient state, competent public administration, regional development for a competitive society
14. Effective governance
15. Public policy and public management
16. Locality and globality: state capacity
17. Social and cultural resources, development policies, local development
18. State and civic participation

Abstract submission and deadlines

Abstracts must be sent to the organisers by July 15, 2011. To submit the abstract, please use the abstract template that can be downloaded here.
The author should clearly mark the name of the section (I. – V.) to which his/her abstract refers to. The maximum length of the abstracts should be 500 words and they should contain a brief description of the main thesis of the paper/presentation, the methodology and results of the research/other activities undertaken.

Submissions will be evaluated on their relevance to conference themes, clarity of thought, documented results and how well they fit into the conference program and other criteria.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 30 July. The acceptance letter will provide detailed information of the conference and the proceedings.
The best papers will be published in the English Journal “Society and Economy” and the Hungarian Journal “Köz-gazdaság”.

Each section programme consists of oral presentations (15 minutes) and a final round table discussion with the participation of the presenters, experts and the audience.                        

Further information

Further detailed and updated information can be obtained on the conference website at cneucoop.uni-corvinus.hu. If you have any further question please contact the programme coordinator Ms Hajna Lőrinc, e-mail: cneucoop(at)uni-corvinus.hu

We look forward to seeing you at the conference! 

Prof. Sándor Kerekes

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Last modified: 2012.09.11.