/ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
“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.