{"id":15435,"date":"2020-05-20T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T07:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacs.edu.mk\/home\/?p=15435"},"modified":"2020-05-20T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T07:48:36","slug":"fifteenth-annual-international-conference-on-european-integration-aicei-2020-climate-change-challenges-and-building-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payment.uacs.edu.mk\/home\/fifteenth-annual-international-conference-on-european-integration-aicei-2020-climate-change-challenges-and-building-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteenth Annual International Conference on European Integration \u2013 AICEI 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"display-6 text-white\" style=\"text-align: center;\">University American College Skopje is proud to announce the<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"display-6 text-white\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Fifteenth Annual International Conference on European Integration \u2013 AICEI 2020<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-brand\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; Climate Change &#8211; Challenges and Building Resilience &#8211;<\/h3>\n<p class=\"display-8 text-white-75 mb-3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Virtual Conference<\/p>\n<p class=\"display-8 text-white-75 mb-3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0of May, 2020, Skopje<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This multi-disciplinary conference aims to bring together leading academics, researchers, research scholars, individuals and non-governmental organizations, to exchange and discuss their experience and views on all aspects of climate change and prospects of building resilience. It seeks to examine the effects of climate change on every aspect of the individual, social and global functioning. Taking into consideration the pressing need to undertake action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, this conference aims to critically reflect on the thoughts, actions and ideas that may raise awareness, knowledge and motivation to combat this global threat.<\/p>\n<p>This year the conference welcomes both paper and poster presentations by scholars and professionals from any related field, as well as contributions by doctoral candidates to the doctoral colloquium.<\/p>\n<p>The broad topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Track 1 \u2013 Business, Economy, Finance and Innovation<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>The role of businesses to respond to climate change and support resilience;<\/li>\n<li>Green energy \u2013 impact, challenges and future considerations;<\/li>\n<li>Challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurial firms;<\/li>\n<li>Role of the business sector in developing, adapting and delivering climate ready solutions<\/li>\n<li>Finance industry and its prospects in funding climate change adaptation projects<\/li>\n<li>The role of innovative firms in creating environmental actions<\/li>\n<li>Are family firms more \u201cgreen\u201d than non &#8211; 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