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For the first time, ETC 2013 will include a special format for young professionals. Early career researchers and practitioners are invited to present their work to the participants of the European Transport Conference. The Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum (YRPF) is organized by young professionals. Early-stage and experimental projects and research ideas are explicitly welcome. The forum is intended to provide a format which enables constructive and comprehensive feedback as well as more time for discussion than usual.

For more information, see http://etcproceedings.org/page/open/title/Young+Researchers+and+Practitioners+Forum.

To nurture future innovators and thought leaders, the Science & Engineering Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) are partnering to develop a dynamic and transformative student exchange program between premier institutions in India and the United States. The program is named in honor of Satyendra Nath Bose (1894 – 1974), a visionary Indian physicist best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s. The class of particles that obey Bose-Einstein statistics, Bosons, was named after him.

For more information, see http://www.indousstf.org/bose/scholars.htm.

ITS America and Southwest Research Institute are once again proudly sponsoring the Annual Student Essay Competition for the 2013 ITS America Annual Meeting, held in Nashville, Tennessee on April 22-24, 2013 (www.itsa.org/annualmeeting).

The Student Essay Competition is designed to encourage student interest and future participation in the development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and solutions. The objective of the essay competition is to provide an opportunity for today’s transportation and engineering students to apply their knowledge in a thought-provoking and enjoyable competition and to build awareness of ITS as a career path with unlimited potential.

Each year, students from all of the country respond to a variety of topics and provide their insight to the ITS industry. Students are an important part of the continued development of the ITS industry, a field of expertise that is vitally important to our nation’s economy and our way of life.

For more information, see http://www.itsa.org/annualmeeting/student-essay-competition.

The demands on Europe’s transport systems continue to both increase and change as a result of many factors. Change demands innovative and practical responses. As transport practitioners and researchers throughout Europe respond to the challenges of economic decline and growth, social change, demographics and the need to become more sustainable, the European Transport Conference is the forum for the presentation of and discussion on robust and affordable responses.

For those involved in transport planning, research and practice 2013 will prove to be yet another challenge to their skills. Transport plays a key role in regeneration and there will be particular pressure to produce innovative and cost-effective solutions to congestion, safety and travel behaviour change at a time of major budget constraint. The European Transport Conference 2013 will focus on the needs of all those who are attempting to come up with practical answers based on experience throughout Europe.

The Conference is unique in Europe, attracting around 400 transport practitioners and researchers to an event where they can find in-depth presentations on policy issues, best practice and research findings across a broad spectrum of transport modes.

For more information, see http://etcproceedings.org.

While future scenario development can take days, weeks, and even months, this highly compressed workshop is designed to simulate the end-to-end process of creating a futures scenario.

The innovation professionals at NewNorth will provide a hands-on experience in future forecasting through the use of tools that can be practiced outside of the classroom.

Scenario creation is largely a dialog among a smart and interested group of people.  There needs to be contemplation and discussion in order to create a high quality scenario and to have a lasting impact on the group of people who are participating.  Creating a common experience about the future for the group is part of the value of scenario work.  While this class is an abbreviated version of typical scenario development, you will be exposed to several helpful methods and perspectives when forecasting future possibilities for your company.

For more information, see http://events.hollandchamber.org/sbaweb/events/events.asp?details=true&cale_id=1865&month=1/28/2013.

The Architecture & Engineering Research Unit in collaboration with the Social Sciences Research Division of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 3rd Annual International Conference on Urban Studies & Planning, 10-13 June 2013, Athens, Greece. For further details, please go to the conference website: http://www.atiner.gr/planning.htm. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Urban Studies and Planning and other related areas such economics, geography, sociology, real estate, construction, etc.

For more information, see http://www.atiner.gr/2013/CALL-PLA.htm.