In 2007 the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, initiated the creation of an Eurasian Club of Scientists (EECSA). Together they started in 2008 the first Astana Economic Forum. The power gained in the last decade and the goals are very well demonstrated in the Review 2018.

Over the last 11 years the forum attracted 50.000 delegates from 150 countries of the world, including over 20 Nobel Laureates and 30 high-level foreign political figures. The next Congress will be 16/17th May, 2019 with the topic "Inspiring Growth: People, Cities, Economics"; it will be supported by the European Retail Academy as Prof.Dr.Hallier explained in a statement.
 

CIRCLE International is a cross-faculty, pan-university research group initially created at Leeds Metropolitan University/UK. Beside its purpose to bring professors and students together annually for rotating Conferences within Europe - in 2019 it has also a special focus "Digital Intelligence".

In 2019 the host will be the University of Gloucestershire/UK - having an education tradition stretching back to 1847. The Conference will take place April 25th-26th; contact via circle2019@glos.ac.uk."The city has a well-known Cathedral - and also Stratfort-upon Avon is nearby" Prof.B.Hallier remarked about the cultural challenges of the surrounding.
 

The international Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning (CORP) is inviting for its 24th Conference on April 2nd - 4th, 2019 into the city of Karlsruhe/Germany (Download Program)

Co-organizer will be the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), which has more than 9.000 employees and an annual budget of 800 million Euro. According to Prof.Dr.Hallier/ERA this conference brings together experts from all over the world as can be seen already at the January status quo of the Worldmap.
 

Started in 1992 as an annual congress show to bridge the years between the triennial EuroShop exhibition meanwhile EuroCIS is an annual hot spot for the European retail technology. During the EuroShop years as a special segment and in the two years in-between as a well-respected stand-alone exhibition in the caliber of market-leader!

EuroCIS covered in 2018 a floor-space of 14.400 square meters net, occupied by 468 exhibitors. It attracted 12.000 visitors. "Also in 2019 we expect many international visitors - combining the fair events in Düsseldorf with store visits of the European Retail Academy in the North Rhine Westfalia region" (see also LINK) Prof.Dr.B.Hallier stated.
 

In Zagreb/Croatia a World Congress of Entrepreneurs was organized jointly by business, universities and local, regional and national governments mainly from the area of former Yugoslavia plus Austria and Germany. It was a call to encourage the civil society to participate in a social market economy and the spirit of entrepreneurship. The backstage organization will monitor and support the activities gathered in the Horizon 2020 Initiative of the European Union.

To underline the importance a monument was established to remind of the Zagreb-Declaration (read here), which will be followed by a 2019 Congress in the city of Skopje/Macedonia.