Each year the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) selects a group of outstanding artists to become its Rising Stars. The selected Rising Stars receive professional development support and perform a concert tour across the halls of the ECHO network The ECHO Rising Stars series has existed since 1995 and has shaped the musical careers of many of today’s world class artists.

Chris Wojtan received his PhD from Georgia Tech in 2010. He is an assistant Professor at Institute of Science and Technology in Austria since 2011, where he has established an independent research program. Chris Wojtan"s work focuses on animation. He has developed sophisticated physically accurate algorithms for complex fluid flows.

Zoos and aquariums have decided to take the lead in getting people to act to preserve biodiversity, which is shrinking at an alarming rate. WAZA"s «Biodiversity is Us» project is timed to support the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020, by providing tools for raising awareness about biodiversity.

At the time of joining the Convention, each Contracting Party undertakes to designate at least one wetland site for inclusion in the List of Wetlands of International Importance. Parties should continue to designate suitable wetlands within their territory for the List. They select wetlands for designation by referring to the Criteria for identifying Wetlands of International Importance.

COMMUNITIES and local people could serve as a draw with their unique tourism products to serve a new global trend of Community-Based Tourism (CBT). Speaking at a forum entitled «Stability, Prosperity, and Sustainability: Community-Based Tourism as a Global Trend» held by Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).

In this workshop different approaches to the implementation of Bayesian analysis for interesting problems in different areas of economics will be treated at a high and innovative level. We think about work in macroeconomics, microeconomics (eg. treatment effects), and also in the area of marketing where decision making plays an important role.

So the weather here is more Glaswegian than Parisian, but that is not bothering the team of workers, headed by Pierre Courtin, who are busy installing the Memory Lane exhibition at the galerie du jour. With two days until opening day, the show is 75% up and already looking good.

A fresh row has erupted in Brussels over the environmental benefits of biofuels, with academics and EU officials at loggerhead over how to account for CO2 savings in the product"s life cycle. A group of 19 European scientists have argued that the EU"s biofuels policy was based on a «serious accounting error» and should be changed, triggering a row with the European Commission.

This call for solutions for the COVID-19 Echo Period is for organisations in the following countries (based on mutual consent between participating national funding bodies): Austria (Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft – FFG)Canada (National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program – NRC IRAP)Denmark (Innovation Fund Denmark – IFD).

I was the lead designer and architect for this 55 000m² mixed-use city centre development using innovative passive environmental systems. Modelled on the way that termites construct their nest to ventilate, cool and heat it entirely through natural means.