2013 calendar of EMCDDA and drug-related events
You can find below a calendar of events for 2013, including conferences, exhibitions, visits to the EMCDDA and internal meetings. New events are added as information becomes available. The 2012 calendar is available here.
FR, Strasbourg
| January 2013 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9 | Horizontal Drugs Group Meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 10 | Expert meeting 'Public Expenditure on drug treatment in Europe' | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 22–24 | Workshop on the structure of Organised Crime in and from the Western Balkans, Europol and TAIEX | Netherlands, The Hague |
| 23 | Expert meeting on Brief Intervention and Motivational Interviewing | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 24 | Workshop Implementation of Best Practices , Protocol for a pilot data collection | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 24 | Conference Griffith Edwards, the ARU & the National Addiction Centre: impact on alcohol, drugs and tobacco research, practice & policy’ | UK, London |
| 24–25 | COPOLAD meeting on facilitating communication and cooperation between drug demand reduction research groups working in both Europe and CELAC, Spanish Delegation on Drugs (DGPNSD) | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 25 | EMCDDA-COPOLAD project coordination meeting (with SICAD) | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 28 | Trend Analysis in TDI | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 31 | Launch 'The European Union report on drug markets: a strategic analysis’ | Belgium, Brussels |
| February 2013 | ||
| 4 | High level visit from Croatia | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 5–6 | Final meeting of the 3 years lasting EU-funded EDPS project | Sweden, Stockholm |
| 5–6 | ESPAD Questionnaire Group | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 6 | Horizontal Drugs Group Meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 7–8 | Final Conference of the project New Methodological tools for policy and programme evaluation | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 7–8 | Working party on general aviation, Pompidou Group | France, Paris |
| 11–13 | Paris Pact - Tri-fold Expert Working Group on Precursors / Cross-Border Cooperation and Legal Frameworks / Financial Flows, UNODC | Netherlands, The Hague |
| 12–14 | Reitox Academy Professional training course for IPA beneficiaries: The European Union, the EU drugs policy and the enlargement process under the Lisbon Treaty | Belgium, Brussels and Bruges |
| 14–16 | Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, Polish National Bureau for Drug Prevention and TNI/DIOGENIS | Poland, Warsaw |
| 18–23 | Workshop on updates in designer drug trends, Toxicology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences | USA, Washington DC |
| 25 | Horizontal Drugs Group Meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 27 | Working group meeting on crime and criminal justice, Eurostat | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| 25 | EU-Western Balkans meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 28 – 1 | DPO network meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| March 2013 | ||
| 11–15 | 56th CND Session, UNODC | Austria, Vienna |
| April 2013 | ||
| 8–9 | National Drugs Co-ordinators meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 11–12 | Risk Assessment 5-(2-aminopropyl)indole and 38th Scientific Commitee meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 15–20 | Reitox Academy training course: Contemporary approaches in drug monitoring | Czech Republic, Prague |
| 16 | G8-Plus expert meeting: New Psychoactive Substances: Responding to the challenges, UK Home Office, International Drugs Team | drugs and Alcohol Unit | Crime and Policing Group | United Kingdom, London |
| 17 | EU-CELAC Technical meeting (am) and EU-USA (pm), Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 17 | COSI meeting, Council of the European Union | Belgium, Brussels |
| 17–18 | 2nd Meeting of the Hepatitis B and C network, ECDC | Sweden, Stockholm |
| 17–19 | DG Sucht, Wissenschaftliches Gespräch | Germany, Tutzing |
| 18 | Horizontal Drugs Group Meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 22–23 | 7th Annual International Forum within the 18th German Congress in Crime Prevention | Germany, Berlin |
| 23–25 | ALICE RAP 3rd Plenary meeting | Spain, Barcelona |
| 24–28 | International Liver Congress 2013, EASL | Netherlands, Amsterdam |
| 25 | The Rustat Conference on Drug Addiction and the Law | United Kingdom, Cambridge |
| May 2013 | ||
| 6–8 | Conference 'Testing the waters: first international multidisciplinary conference on detecting illicit drugs in wastewater' | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 7 | EMCDDA Budget and Executive Committee meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 8–10 | Global Addiction Conference | Italy, Pisa |
| 16–17 | 38th EMCDDA Scientific Commitee meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 16 | EU-CELAS Technical meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 17 | Horizontal Drugs Group Meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 20–22 | Fifty-third regular session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, CICAD | USA, Washington DC |
| 21–24 | 2nd Extended Reitox week + 48th Reitox HFP meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 23–25 | I Congresso Internacional sobre Drogas e Dependências, ISCE and Centre for Drug Misuse Research Scotland | Portugal, Lisbon |
| June 2013 | ||
| 9–12 | Harm Reduction 2013: HRI’s 23rd International Conference | Lithuania, Vilnius |
| 11–12 | COPOLAD Conference | Ecuador, Quito |
| 11–12 | Convention of the Lower Saxony Centre for Addiction Problems (NLS), Niedersächsische Landesstelle für Suchtfragen (NLS) | Germany, Bad Zwischenahn im Ammerland |
| 13–14 | EU-CELAC High Level Meeting | Ecuador, Quito |
| 17–18 | International Symposium 'Drug Control Policy: The European Perspective', European University Institute | Italy, Firenze |
| 19–21 | 28th Annual Meeting of the Co-Operation Group of Drug Control Services at European Airports and in General Aviation, Pompidou Group | France, Strasbourg |
| 26 | Horizontal Drugs Group Meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 26 | International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking | |
| 27 | EU-Pakistan meeting (am), Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| 27–29 | EWS meeting and 3rd International Forum on New Drugs | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 28 | Dublin Group Meeting, Irish presidency | Belgium, Brussels |
| July 2013 | ||
| 1–12 | Summer school on illicit drugs Europe, ISCTE and EMCDDA | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 3 | EMCDDA Budget and Executive Committee meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 4–5 | 47th EMCDDA Management Board meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 11 | 4th Meeting of Informal network of EU agencies with Pre-Accession and European Neighbourhood programmes, ECDC | Sweden, Stockholm |
| 18–19 | Visit of delegation of MEPs of the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament | Portugal, Lisbon |
| August 2013 | ||
| September 2013 | ||
| 9 | Informal Afghan Opiate Trade meeting, UNODC | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 24–25 | Expert meeting on Treatment Demand Indicator (TDI) | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 25–27 | 2013 annual meeting of the Precursor Network, Pompidou Group | France, Strasbourg |
| 26–27 | Expert meeting on Problem Drug Use (PDU) | Portugal, Lisbon |
| October 2013 | ||
| 3–4 | Legal Correspondents meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 14–15 | Expert meeting drug-related deaths & mortality indicator | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 15 | 2013 Drug Trends Conference, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre | Australia, Melbourne |
| 16 | EMCDDA Budget and Executive Committee meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 16–17 | Expert meeting on drug-related infectious diseases indicator | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 18 | Joint ECDC/EMCDDA HIV risk assessment meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| November 2013 | ||
| 7–8 | 39th EMCDDA Scientific Commitee meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 27–29 | 49th Reitox HFP meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| December 2013 | ||
| 4 | EMCDDA Budget and Executive Committee meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
| 5–6 | 48th EMCDDA Management Board meeting | Portugal, Lisbon |
