ECKM 2007: THE 8th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE

ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Barcelona, Spain

PRESENTATION CONTENT:

• The city of Barcelona

• Technical University of Catalonia

• ECKM 2007: main features

THE CITY OF BARCELONA

Barcelona, a knowledge city

Barcelona, the 6th metropolitan area in Europe

Barcelona’s metropolitan Region:4,6 million inhabitants in a 3,200 Sq. Km

The international position of Barcelona

• 6th best European City for Business (Healey & Baker)

• The only hot spot for the new economy in Southern Europe (Business Week)

• Barcelona and Dublin, the two most interesting investment destinations (Business Location of Financial Times)

• 3rd most improved city (Fortune)

• 1st city in quality of life (Healey & Baker)

Barcelona: an example of evolution from a industrial city

to a service based economy

78% of the Barcelona labour force in the services sector

The Knowledge City Strategy

Barcelona aims to become a Global City

The first tourist city of Europe

A city that focused on its human capital development

A city with high quality urban standards

A city with a mixture of science and art

An open and connected city

An international centre for training and research

THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF

CATALONIA

THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF

CATALONIA

• Created in 1971 by grouping a number of schools and research centers, located in various cities (Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, Sant Cugat del Vallés, Terrassa and Vilanova i la Geltrú)

• 35.000 students • 60 official first and second cycle qualifications • more than 45 doctoral programmes, specialising

in technical, science, art and humanities

ECKM 2007: CONFERENCE VENUE

• The College of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (EUETIB) is a centennial innovating school, located right in the center of Barcelona city

ECKM 2007: INNOVATING FEATURES

ECKM 2007: INNOVATING

FEATURES

• Increasing focus on KM and IC macrodimension (knowledge cities, knowledge regions)

• A new mini-track, entitled Human Capital for Outstanding Results

WE WARMLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME AND JOIN US AT THE ECKM

2007, IN BARCELONA!

José M. Viedma