3rd EURO HOpe mini-conference on ‘Humanitarian Operations at the Interplay of Development and Relief

ProgrammeThe European Working Group on Humanitarian Logistics (EURO HOpe) and the Research Center for Access-to-Medicines of the KU Leuven are organizing the third EURO HOpe mini-conference in Leuven on September 13 and 14, 2018. As in previous years, the goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in humanitarian logistics to discuss and improve their research on various aspects of humanitarian operations from a conceptual, empirical, and modelling perspective.

Key topics for this conference include but are not limited to:

*The disaster life cycle, including mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery

*The interplay between relief and development o Cooperation of stakeholders in humanitarian operations

*IT and new technologies

*Access-to-medicines supply chain strengthening