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Current rules create obstacles, such as additional registrations, when associations operate across EU borders. This may distort the market for non-profit organisations, affecting the EU democratic space and the exercise of EU fundamental rights.
The UIA welcomes its newest Associate Member Kingsley Napley.
Becoming a SMART association
By Ivo Franschitz, Founder and Owner of ENITED business events (http://www.enited.eu)
The Report provides two views of a sector continuing to face multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2021.
UIA is pleased to announce the location of it's Association Round Tables for 2024 and 2026:
UIA Associations Round Table Europe 2024 will take place in Firenze, Italy on 14 & 15 November 2024
UIA Associations Round Table Europe 2026 will take place in Lucerne, Switzerland (date to be determined)
In October / November 2023 and 2025 UIA Round Table Europe will take place in Brussels
Open Call for NGOs to apply for Consultative Status with the United Nations (Deadline: 1 June 2022)
NGOs interested in applying for ECOSOC consultative status should submit their application and required documents on or before the deadline 1 June 2022. The following link provides background information, the benefits and instructions how to apply: http://csonet.org/index.php?menu=83
The Union of International Associations (UIA) launches its 10th edition of the Survey amongst 25,000 international associations
Union of International Associations (UIA) opens registration for its Associations Round Table Brussels 2022
UIA’s 15th Associations Round Table Brussels will take place at the Marriott Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium on 20 May 2022
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The annual European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) will be held in Tampere in August 2026. The event will gather some 2,500 international researchers and experts to discuss education during a time of multi-crisis.
The 5th World Conference on Floating Solutions (WCFS 2025) will take place in Espoo, Finland from 1st to 3rd September 2025.
The Congress of the European Academy of Neurology is returning to the Finnish capital Helsinki, which hosted the extraordinarily successful EAN Congress in 2024, with record onsite attendance.
The warm reception, cutting-edge facilities, and rich scientific atmosphere the hosts and participants experienced in Helsinki in summer 2024 have inspired the organizers to once again embrace this exceptional city as the host.
MECC Maastricht will be hosting the 36th edition of the annual European conference of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) from 16-21 May 2026. The conference offers a forum for collaboration and knowledge exchange between environmental professionals and covers a broad spectrum of multidisciplinary topics. In the past, the European event has been held in cities such as Copenhagen, Dublin and Seville, and in 2025 it will take place in Vienna.
HAEVENUE, the Global Convention Complex in the Haeundae area designated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, is a specialized MICE industry space covering approximately 239,000 m² and featuring nine integrated MICE facilities.
In 2028, Busan will host the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM), a major international academic conference that will bring together over 3,000 experts in computational mechanics from around the world. WCCM is a biennial conference organized by the International Association for Computational Mechanics. It serves as a platform for sharing the latest research and innovations in computational solid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics through discussions and lectures.
The SSAI Congress is a bi-annual meeting meant for the professionals of the field of anaesthesiology. The congress is held in a different Nordic city that holds a University Hospital each time – the congress is held in Finland every ten years. In 2024, the honor was granted to Oulu.
The international Fab Lab Conference will take place in Oulu in August 2027
The Fab Lab Conference is an annual event that rotates globally. In 2024, the conference took place in Mexico. The conference is organised in partnership with the Fab Foundation and the average number of participants is around 800 people. The City of Oulu will act as the responsible organiser and the University of Oulu as a partner.
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