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On June 11-13, the TCI supported regional conference Rural Clusters 2007 will be held in Akureyri, Iceland. Hosted by the Akureyri's Region Growth agreement, this three-day event with the theme "Small and Remote Communities" begins with a cluster tour of three North Iceland clusters - the Food cluster, the Renewable Energy cluster and the Wale cluster.

On April 25, competitiveness stakeholders in Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda convened with representatives from AU, UNIDO, USAID and JICA at a TCI organized forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose was to, after having presented the achievements of a number of cluster-based competitiveness initiatives in Africa, discuss further development of the Pan Africa Competitiveness Forum (PACF) as an instrument for accelerated industrialization, value addition in production and increased trade competitiveness in Africa.

On June 14-15, the European Regional Conference on Innovation Journalism "Stanford after Stanford 2007" will be held at the faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

On May 22 this spring, the 3rd Competitiveness Forum, a national forum for cluster practitioners in Finland, will be held in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Five European regions will participate in the TCI dialogue symposium on Cluster Policy Renewal that is to be held in San Sebastian, Basque Country, May 17-18 2007. The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Basque Government is the host for the meeting.

The fourth conference on Innovation Journalism will take place at Stanford University on May 21-23, 2007. Pre-register now in order to secure your place, 178 participants already registered and the conference is soon to be held.

Creative Clusters is looking for speakers to the fifth annual Creative Clusters Conference on November 9-14 in London. Devoted and challenging speakers from all parts of the world with compelling experience or evidence for policy-makers, showing how creativity is impacting on all areas of economic development and regeneration, are welcome to present their work in this context.

A three day seminar on Innovation Journalism will be organized in Maastricht, Netherlands, on July 25-27 by the European Journalism Centre in association with Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University.

The America's Competitiveness Forum will take place in Atlanta on June 11-12, 2007. The aim is to enhance innovation, regional cooperation and economic growth.

The Erik Network (European Regions Knowledge based Innovation Network) is organizing the international conference Knowledge for Regional Innovation - Towards "Regions for Economic Change" in Brussels on May 10-11, 2007.