“STANDARDIZATION, PROTYPES AND QUALITY: A MEANS OF BALKAN COUNTRIES’ COLLABORATION”
CENTRAL SECRETARIAT of the BALKAN COORDINATING COMMITTEE (BCC) by the Union of Hellenic Scientists for Protypation and Standardization (ENEPROT): 19, Epimenidou str., 54633 Thessaloniki-Greece, Tel+fax: +30 2310 286680 http://protypation.web.auth.gr/eneprotEN/die8neis.htm
Call for Papers
9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“STANDARDIZATION, PROTYPES AND QUALITY:
A MEANS OF BALKAN COUNTRIES’ COLLABORATION”
October 5-6, 2012, Tirana
After 15 years of serious scientific work, we are proud to announce the institutionalization of the Balkan International Conference moving forward.
The 9th Conference will be an excellent opportunity to continue contacts between scientists and specialists from all Balkan countries, as well as from all over the world, to exchange experience and knowledge on all issues of Standardization, focused on quality.
Standardization has proved to be the ideal way to collaboration, coordination and harmonization in every human activity, in local as well in international level. Therefore, the purpose of this conference is to facilitate the collaboration between Balkan countries through common standards and protypes.
TOPICS
The scope of 9th International Conference “Standardization, protypes and quality: a means of Balkan countries’ collaboration” includes the following topics:
Standards and Quality:
· in Society and Life
· in Services
· in Education and Training
· in Health Care
· in Environment
· in Production and Logistics
· in IT sector
· in Food, Goods and Consumer Protection
· in Constructions
· in Agriculture and Forestry
· in Measurements-Tests and Controls
· in Accreditation and Certification
other related topics
PAPER SUBMISSION
Participants, who wish to present a paper relative to the above topics, should send an abstract (200-300 words, in Word, Arial 10, full aligned) to the conference secretariat email: until March 31, 2012 . The submitted abstract should include the name(s) of the author (s), as well as his/her (their) affiliation (including e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number etc). After the notification of acceptance, authors are requested to send also full scale paper (using paper template form) until July 10, 2012. Abstracts will be published in a volume and full scale papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings (ISBN publication) after reviewing and accepting.
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES
The language of the Conference is English.
PRESENTATION
The Conference may include invited lectures, oral presentations, poster sessions and workshops on specialized topics.
REGISTRATION
Those who wish to attend the Conference are kindly requested to fill in the Registration Form (to be distributed later) and send it by e-mail to the Conference Secretariat together with a scanned copy of payment not later than August 31, 2012 for early registration or September 20, 2012 for late registration. The final program will be sent in September 2012 to all individuals having sent the filled Registration Form.
KEY DATES
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 6, 2012
Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2012
Notification of acceptance and mode of presentation: August , 2012
BALKAN COORDINATING COMMITTEE
ALBANIA
Agim Anxhaku, Director ofRegulatory ReformQualityInfrastructure,Ministry of Economy, Trade andEnergy
Vladimir Misha, Member of Board of Directors, AOQ
BULGARIA
Radoslav Kotev,Bulgarian Union of Standardizers (BUS),
Branimir Sandalski, President of Bulgarian Council for Voluntary Certification
FYROM
Laszlo Kocsis,SouthEast European University
GREECE
Konstantinos Athanassiadis, President of the Hellenic Institute of Metrology, Gen.Secretary of ENEPROT
Angelos Zachariadis, Chairman of ENEPROT
ROMANIA,
Adriana Fota,TransylvaniaUniversity of Brasov
Badea Lepadatescu,TransylvaniaUniversity of Brasov
SERBIA
Jovan Filipovic, Belgrade University
Ivana Mijatović,BelgradeUniversity
SLOVENIA
Aleksander Janeš, University of Primorska
TURKEY
Erol Akata, Istanbul Aydin University
Nevnihal Erdogan, Kocaeli University
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
ALBANIAN ORGANIZATION FOR QUALITY - AOQ
Contact Person : Mr. Vladimir Misha
Mailing Address: Rr “ Kavajes” № 116.
Gurten Business Center Office № 145
Tirana 1001
Albania
Telephone: +355684020400
Fax: +0035542259561
e-mail address:
REGISTRATION FEES
Category / Early Registration(31/08/12) / Late Registration
(20/09/12) / Details
Paper reference Participants / 60 EUR / 65 EUR / Coffee breaks, light lunch, and the volume of proceedings are included
Poster presentation Participants / 35 EUR / 40 EUR / Coffee breaks, light lunch for the day of posters’ session, and the volume of proceedings are included
Paper co-authors Participants / 15 EUR / 20 EUR / Coffee breaks and light lunch for the day of presentation are included
Attendants of Conference ( full time) / 25 EUR / 30 EUR / Coffee breaks and light lunch are included
If you wish to get more copies of the volume of proceedings the cost is 20 euro each.