¹ Sustainability Labelling Session

Globalization and the rise of the trans-national businesses have combined with an increasing sense of responsibility to the environment to generate demand for 'international' systems of measuring the sustainable performance of buildings and the urban landscape. This session will propose to present the state of the art, trends, challenges and opportunities in that field at European level.

² ERA-NET Session

ERA-NET projects dealing with the construction sector (buildings, infrastructures, cultural heritage...) will be invited to present their strategies to promote and support transnational RDI projects through joining national funding and developing networking activities.

³ Energy Efficient Buildings European Initiative

This European Initiative is an industry-led public-private partnership equally funded by industry and the European Commission working to achieve common objectives. The status of this Initiative will be presented, followed by reports on some major already running European projects in that field.

⁴ Innovation Market - Boosting innovation via the Enterprise Europe Network

The innovation market will give the opportunity to Innovative SMEs to present their future products (building components, construction materials, site equipment, testing systems...) under development or just coming on the market. At this dedicated session they will have the opportunity to meet contractors and other stakeholders interested by innovation in the construction sector. Each interested SME will be offered a table (to exhibit leaflets or other documents) and a poster panel to introduce its innovative products. Preregistration at no cost is to be done by SMEs through sending an e-mail to martine.merckx@bbri.be (download the specific leaflet).

⁵ Job & PhD Market

On the Job & PhD market PhD researchers are invited to promote their on-going research work and results through Posters which will be exhibited in a dedicated room. Job offers and job demands will be put on display as well on specific boards where short job description in the form of one A4 advertisement will be centralized.

⁶ SMEs Session

This session will be dedicated to the role and importance of SMEs in the construction industry and the importance of cross-sector innovations. Presentations of major European activities in that field will be included.

⁷ Brokerage and Speed dating

The Brokerage and Speed dating session will allow SMEs to make contacts with colleagues who are looking for business partners and will also allow contacting representatives from large industries and research centres to discuss opportunities for eventual mutual collaboration and development. The room will be accommodated for this purpose with individual meeting stands where potential interested partners can engage in private discussions and exchange of information. With the help of the conference secretariat a meeting agenda will be maintained allowing flexible interaction between the interested participants.

⁸ European Project Presentations and Posters

European and transnational funded RDI projects under activity (FP6-FP7, CIP, Eureka, COST... including projects recently launched) are invited to report on their objectives and/or achieved results through Posters. Proposals for Posters, in a draft version have to be made through a specific Template to be sent back to ECTPConference@cstb.fr by 28 September 2009. Selected proposals will be finalized, printed (format A1) and brought to the Conference site by authors. Posters will be permanently exhibited during the Conference. The Secretariat will collect the pdf files related to Posters for further display on the Conference website.

Some received proposals will be additionally invited for oral presentations during parallel sessions at the Conference.

⁹ Private/Public meetings

Depending on room size and availabilities, it is planned to give the possibility (at preferred room renting fees) to some ECTP-related projects to organize meetings in the framework of the Conference (reserved to the project-members duly registered at the Conference or open to all attendees of the Conference). Applications should be sent as soon as possible to ECTPConference@cstb.fr

¹⁰ ECTP and E2B A General Assemblies

It is envisaged to organize ECTP and E2B A General Assemblies in the framework of the Conference. Of course, opening to these Assemblies will be restricted to their respective duly registered members. Only one representative per member-organization should be allowed to attend.