European Conference on Renewable Energies and Cooperation Exchange 2004, November 17th -20th in Vienna, Austria.

VIENNA June 29 (PROTEXT/ots) - Use the exceptional opportunity to meet other innovative companies, institutions and research organisations through personal one-to-one-meetings and register your company profile at http://www.bit.or.at/energy!

Your demands / offers will be matched with the offers / demands of potential partners, and co-operation talks will be arranged for you during the conference. Deadline for the submission of profiles is October 10th.

Besides this brokerage event the conference offers practically oriented plenary sessions, poster exhibitions, exhibition sites for commercial and institutional exhibitors, and technical tours. General topics of the plenary sessions are best practice examples of European power, heat and polygeneration plants in operation; Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Rational Use of Energy in buildings (RUE); renewable energies, their status quo and future perspectives in Central Europe, especially in the new EU member states Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Slovenia; financing and funding instruments.

The call for poster presentations of innovative projects in the field of renewable energy will close by August 31st, please send your abstracts to the congress office. Further information: http://www.bit.or.at/energy, or contact the congress office: events@arsenal.ac.at Faradaygasse 3, Object 210 1030 Vienna Austria Phone: +43 (0) 50550-6484 Fax: +43 (0) 50550-6590.

The conference takes place in co-operation with CER2 (Central European Regions Cluster for Energy from Renewables.NETwork). CER2 is an INTERREG III B activity and is in the process of being established as a platform for communication and project development. Focus is on energy concepts, RES and RUE - start ups, standardised training schemes, quality assurance, and cluster development.

CER2 is based on the co-operation of 14 partners from 7 EU countries and is co-ordinated by arsenal research / business unit "Renewable Energy".

For further information contact Susanne Geissler (project co- ordinator), susanne.geissler@arsenal.ac.at, Tel. +43 (0) 50 550 6650.

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