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IV International Scientific and Practical Conference

“Emergency Situations: Prevention and Elimination”

June 6-8, 2007, Minsk, Belarus

 

IV International Scientific and Practical Conference “Emergency Situations: Prevention and Elimination” will be held in Minsk on June 6-8, 2007 on the initiative of the Ministry for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus.

 

The main objectives of the Conference are:

 

to discuss scientific and technical progress in the field of fire, natural and manmade disasters protection; to work out proposals on promotion of international scientific and technical cooperation and application of perspective ideas into practice.

 

The Conference will discuss the following issues:

 

- normative and legal, economic and educational provision of life safety

- prediction, prevention and reduction of social, economic and ecological consequences of emergencies

- information and analytical systems for monitoring and provision of rapid response to emergencies

- organization of fire and rescue services function

- means and technologies to carry out rescue and fire fighting operations

- devices and systems for control and provision of life safety parameters

- emergency medicine, rehabilitation of the injured and rescuers

- international cooperation in the field of prevention and elimination of emergencies

 

Date and venue of the Conference:

 

The plenary and sectional meetings of the Conference will take place in the Concert Hall “Minsk” (5 Oktyabrskaya St., Minsk).

 

Within the framework of the Conference there will be held an exhibition of rescue equipment and recovery aidsRescue equipment, fire and industrial safety.

 

To the organizations interested in advertising of their developments, promotion of production to the Byelorussian market it is offered to send the application form for participation in the exhibition by March, 30, 2007

 

The participants of the conference will be able to visit the fire-testing laboratory of building constructions of Research Institute of Fire Safety and Emergencies and operational-tactical exercises of fire-rescue units on the territory of Institute of Retraining and Professional Development under the Ministry for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus.

 

Language

 

The official languages of the conference are Russian and English.

 

No registration fee is charged.

 

 

Call for papers

 

The presentation in Russian or English should be of no more than 2,5 printed pages. Surname, first name, job title and organization of speaker should be included as well. It should be printed in single line spacing, type 14, margins up/down 2, left 3, right 1,5 centimeters, font Times New Roman. The presentation should be prepared using commonly available Word Processing Software. The Ministry for Emergency Situations uses Microsoft Word 97/2000/ХР or RTF. The title of the presentation should be in capital letters. Please, try not to use the table of styles, and not to use tabulation or blanks for indentations. Also try to avoid using wide tables that my need landscape pages.

 

The printed version of the presentation should fully correspond to electronic version. The presentation will be reviewed. The main criteria are topicality and accordance to the conference subject. The Organizing Committee may turn down papers if they do not meet the above-mentioned requirements.

 

Two copies of the presentation and registration form should be sent to the Organizing Committee by mail and e-mail, and by mail on CD/FDD3,5 no later than February 1, 2007.

 

Important dates

 

-  Announcement on inclusion of presentations into the program of the Conference and distribution of the second announcement – till April 30, 2007.

Date of the opening of the Conference  – June 6, 2007.

 

For any additional information, please, contact:

 

Department of International Cooperation

of the Ministry for Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus

Tel. +375 17 2065425/2036551

Fax +375 17 2065181

e-mail: oic_mcs@infonet.by.

 

Program

 

Registration Form