<p> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES “STANDARDIZATION, PROTYPES AND QUALITY: A MEANS OF BALKAN COUNTRIES’ COLLABORATION” CENTRAL SECRETARIAT of the BALKAN COORDINATING COMMITTEE (BCC) by the Union of Hellenic Scientists for Protypation and Standardization (ENEPROT): 19, Epimenidou str., 54633 Thessaloniki-Greece, Tel+fax: +30 2310 286680 http://protypation.web.auth.gr/eneprotEN/die8neis.htm</p><p>Call for Papers </p><p>9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “STANDARDIZATION, PROTYPES AND QUALITY: A MEANS OF BALKAN COUNTRIES’ COLLABORATION” October 5-6, 2012, Tirana</p><p>After 15 years of serious scientific work, we are proud to announce the institutionalization of the Balkan International Conference moving forward. The 9th Conference will be an excellent opportunity to continue contacts between scientists and specialists from all Balkan countries, as well as from all over the world, to exchange experience and knowledge on all issues of Standardization, focused on quality. Standardization has proved to be the ideal way to collaboration, coordination and harmonization in every human activity, in local as well in international level. Therefore, the purpose of this conference is to facilitate the collaboration between Balkan countries through common standards and protypes.</p><p>TOPICS</p><p>The scope of 9th International Conference “Standardization, protypes and quality: a means of Balkan countries’ collaboration” includes the following topics: Standards and Quality:  in Society and Life  in Services  in Education and Training  in Health Care  in Environment  in Production and Logistics  in IT sector  in Food, Goods and Consumer Protection  in Constructions  in Agriculture and Forestry  in Measurements-Tests and Controls  in Accreditation and Certification other related topics</p><p>PAPER SUBMISSION Participants, who wish to present a paper relative to the above topics, should send an abstract (200-300 words, in Word, Arial 10, full aligned) to the conference secretariat email: [email protected] until March 31, 2012 . The submitted abstract should include the name(s) of the author (s), as well as his/her (their) affiliation (including e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number etc). After the notification of acceptance, authors are requested to send also full scale paper (using paper template form) until July 10, 2012. Abstracts will be published in a volume and full scale papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings (ISBN publication) after reviewing and accepting.</p><p>CONFERENCE LANGUAGES The language of the Conference is English. </p><p>PRESENTATION The Conference may include invited lectures, oral presentations, poster sessions and workshops on specialized topics.</p><p>REGISTRATION Those who wish to attend the Conference are kindly requested to fill in the Registration Form (to be distributed later) and send it by e-mail to the Conference Secretariat together with a scanned copy of payment not later than August 31, 2012 for early registration or September 20, 2012 for late registration. The final program will be sent in September 2012 to all individuals having sent the filled Registration Form.</p><p>KEY DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 6, 2012 Final Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2012 Notification of acceptance and mode of presentation: August , 2012</p><p>BALKAN COORDINATING COMMITTEE</p><p>ALBANIA Agim Anxhaku, Director of Regulatory Reform & Quality Infrastructure, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy Vladimir Misha, Member of Board of Directors, AOQ</p><p>BULGARIA Radoslav Kotev, Bulgarian Union of Standardizers (BUS), Branimir Sandalski, President of Bulgarian Council for Voluntary Certification</p><p>FYROM Laszlo Kocsis, South East European University</p><p>GREECE Konstantinos Athanassiadis, President of the Hellenic Institute of Metrology, Gen.Secretary of ENEPROT Angelos Zachariadis, Chairman of ENEPROT</p><p>ROMANIA, Adriana Fota, Transylvania University of Brasov Badea Lepadatescu, Transylvania University of Brasov</p><p>SERBIA Jovan Filipovic, Belgrade University Ivana Mijatović, Belgrade University</p><p>SLOVENIA Aleksander Janeš, University of Primorska</p><p>TURKEY Erol Akata, Istanbul Aydin University Nevnihal Erdogan, Kocaeli University</p><p>CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT</p><p>ALBANIAN ORGANIZATION FOR QUALITY - AOQ Contact Person : Mr. Vladimir Misha Mailing Address: Rr “ Kavajes” № 116. Gurten Business Center Office № 145 Tirana 1001 Albania Telephone: +355684020400 Fax: +0035542259561 e-mail address: [email protected] </p><p>REGISTRATION FEES </p><p>Category Early Late Details Registration Registration (31/08/12) (20/09/12) Paper reference 60 EUR 65 EUR Coffee breaks, light Participants lunch, and the volume of proceedings are included Poster presentation 35 EUR 40 EUR Coffee breaks, light Participants lunch for the day of posters’ session, and the volume of proceedings are included Paper co-authors 15 EUR 20 EUR Coffee breaks and Participants light lunch for the day of presentation are included Attendants of 25 EUR 30 EUR Coffee breaks and Conference ( full time) light lunch are included</p><p>If you wish to get more copies of the volume of proceedings the cost is 20 euro each.</p>