The Budapest Business School together with Gfk Hungary organized a one-day-conference with the topic “The Perspectives of Commerce after 2012” (More) . On invitation of Dr. Akos Kozak (Gfk) Prof. Dr. Hallier introduced his ideas for “ A global house of harmony”. He also proposed a Competence Center for Life-Long-Learning for Hungary in analogy to the project being started in Moldova.

Within the framework of the International Year of the Co-operatives – which was declared by the General Assembly of the UN – the Republic of Moldova organized the conference “Co-Operatives and Sustainable Development in a Global Economy”. 190 reports (77 from outside of Moldova) were presented by speakers from 16 countries. Worldwide 160,000 co-op enterprises create 5.4 million jobs.

Initiated by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2004 a first conference of a Center for International Research in Consumers Location and their Environment (CIRCLE ) had been organized in the UK. After the follow-ups in Liechtenstein, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Austria, Portugal, again Croatia, now in Spain the 9th Conference took place – on the photo CIRCLE-founder Prof.Dr. Claudio Vignali with key-note speaker Prof.Dr. B. Hallier.

In Brussels the smartagrifood – consortium presented the status quo of its Future Internet project. At the moment there are three back stage columns from farm to fork analyzed (flowers, fruit and vegetables, meat) and a proposal of the Spanish supermarket chain Bon Preu for the final link towards consumer awareness. To explain the tracings/tracking and a cutting house Prof.Dr.Hallier showed at the review a YouTube taken by his students from Finland during a visit of an ORGAINVENT-member Tils in Germany.

According to Buying Power Russia is Worldwide the number 6 of all the countries. Within Russia the City of Moscow is the nucleus of buying power! This power-center will be extended by its area to become the bigger Moscow Region being 2.4 times larger than the city today.