2013 Polis Conference – call for speakers

The call for speakers for the 2013 Polis Conference, to be held in Brussels on 4 and 5 December, covers a wide range of topics open under the core Polis themes of environment and health, traffic efficiency and mobility, road safety and the social and economic challenges. All abstracts should highlight the innovative dimension as well as the results achieved and lessons learned. Abstracts should be submitted online at www.polisnetwork.eu/2013conference by 7 June 2013. Authors will be notified in June of the
May 3, 2013 Read time: 1 min
The call for speakers for the 2013 Polis Conference, to be held in Brussels on 4 and 5 December, covers a wide range of topics open under the core Polis themes of environment and health, traffic efficiency and mobility, road safety and the social and economic challenges.

All abstracts should highlight the innovative dimension as well as the results achieved and lessons learned.

Abstracts should be submitted online at %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal www.polisnetwork.eu/2013conference www.polisnetwork.eu/2013conference false http://www.polisnetwork.eu/2013conference false false%> by 7 June 2013.  Authors will be notified in June of the outcome of the evaluation process.  Technical sessions will be conducted in English only.

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