Past events
Institutional analysis
International Conference (the Global Public Services Network of REFGOV - IAP V/23), Louvain-la-Neuve, 15th and 16th of July 2006, "Institutions for providing global environmental goods: managing the uncertainty, complexity and change in the field of biodiversity and climate change" (website)
International Workshop, Berlin, 17-19th of July 2003 : "Incentive politics in the first 10 years of implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. An evaluation from the point of view of new-institutional and evolutionary approaches to incentives". (website)
Microbiological commons
Building an integrated infrastructure in microbial research (dealing with issues such as bioinformatics, intellectual property rights, material transfer agreements, text mining and integration with genomics databases), 12-13 June 2008, International Conference, Ghent (website)
Designing the Microbial Research Commons: An International Symposium, 8-9 October 2009, National Academies of Sciences, Washington DC (website)
International workshop (IUAP V/23), Brussels, 7th and 8th of July 2005, "Exploring and exploiting microbiological commons: contributions of bio-informatics and intellectual property rights in sharing biological information" (website)
Traditional knowledge
International Workshop, Louvain-la-Neuve, 5th and 6th of February 2004, "Governance of biodiversity as a global public good : bioprospecting, intellectual property rights and traditional knowledge"(website, program)
Sustainability assessment
International Workshop SUSTRA, Louvain-la-Neuve, 27-28th of March 2003 : "Sustainability Impact Assessment of Trade Agreements and New Approaches to Governance" (program, website)
Access and benefit sharing
Multi-Stakeholder Expert Dialogue on Access and Benefit-Sharing for Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Brussels, 25-26 January 2011. (website)