EUROPE – The next Greenmeetings and Events Conference will be held 26-27 February 2013 at the Darmstadtium Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
The organisers of this conference for the organisation of sustainable events are the German Convention Bureau (GCB) and the European Association of Event Centres (EVVC).
“This year’s Greenmeetings and Events Conference showed that there is a strong awareness of this issue in the industry,” said Managing Director of the GCB, Matthias Schultze. “With the 2013 conference we will continue with our successful concept and take the topic of green meetings much further than the ecological aspect. We also want to integrate social issues like CSR, workplace comfort and compliance in the discussion and strengthen Germany’s position as a meetings destination.”
“The Darmstadtium Centre combines an energy-efficient construction with an outstanding creative architecture and a sustainable overall concept. It serves as a perfect example that green meetings are not only economical but can also be attractive,” said EVVC President Joachim König.
Opened in 2008, Darmstadtium Science and Convention Centre makes comprehensive use of geothermal energy, biomass and solar energy so that it can run almost entirely on renewable energy sources. In 2010 the centre received the Green Globe eco-label. Its shareholders are Darmstadt Technical University and Darmstadt Science City.
Darmstadtium’s Managing Director, Lars Wöhler, said: “Sustainability management is an important factor for us in national and international competition. The greenmeetings and events conference gives us a good opportunity to demonstrate our high level of expertise in the field of sustainable meetings.”
Four hundred delegates attended the last Greenmeetings and Events Conference at Congress Centrum Mainz from 1 to 2 March 2011 and a further 200 registered participants were reached by the virtual tie-in event of the conference, which the organisers staged on the internet two weeks later.
Germany claims the largest market in the environmental technologies sector world-wide.
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