EuroShop 2014 was breaking again world-wide records : more than 110.000 square meters net exhibition floor of 2 226 exhibitors from 57 countries were visited by over 109.000 retail experts from 110 nations : two third of the visitors did come from abroad. The next EuroShop show will be at March 5th-9th 2017.

Together with the journalist A.Schiller at the booth of Mezzo/Spacewood Prof.Hallier organized an open network forum which was attended among others by the Government of the City of Moscow, the Russian Competence Center of the German Chamber of Commerce, by Alexej Filatov, Aengevelt Facility Management, a Chinese delegation with David Zhang, an Ukraine delegation,retailers from Asserbaijan,Serbia etc.
 

In close context to the record-breaking EuroShop 2014 exhibition Prof.Dr.B.Hallier guided for a week retail experts of Asserbaijan, Kirgisia, Russia, Ukraine and Usbekistan through top retail outlets in North Rhine Westfalia.

Thanks of the group go to Food Academy Neuwied, Rewe Mueller/Neuwied, Lidl, Rewe Jakubek, CAP,Kaufland,Edeka Feldmann,Hit, GS 1 Germany, Porta, Globus, Globetrotter, Pu.C, Real Flagstore Essen, Tengelmann Environment Store,Carsch/Kaufhof, Breuninger, Schadow Gallery, Stilwerk, Saturn, and Sevens.
 

In Prague the 20th retail summit of the CZ Republic was visited by more than 800 experts from Central Europe. It is a tradition of the European Retail Academy to attend this highlight event.

This time Prof B.Hallier used the meeting of the Czech/Slovak ECR-Board (at the photo together with T.Martoch/ECR and Ch.Verschueren/Eurocommerce) as well as the summit's workshop about the Total Supply Chain to lobby for the EU-project FORWARD and the topic of saving waste.
 

Another component of Global Green University project will be implementation of modern technology in the research. For this purpose was created a facebook page: www.facebook.com/globalgreenuniversity

Riga/Latvia has been chosen to be the European Cultural Capital in 2014. Riga played a strong role in the middle-ages as a partner within the Hanse-trading Pact (see also the picture of the Guilde House Schwarzhäupter) - later also the composer Richard Wagner was living here for two years to enjoy the inspiration of this Baltic city.

In April 23rd-25th, 2014 the Riga Technical University will host the International Conference for Economics and Management (ICEM) creating discussions about smart sustainable solutions for a continiously changing world (more: www.icem.lt)