Efficient networking is the key to successful cooperation and creating valuable contacts. Professional network  management requires special communication, efficient management and financial resources.

The net'swork¹¹  International Conference on Professional Network Management on 24th to 25th  November 2011 in Potsdam, Germany, offers the ideal setting to exchange ideas on these topics. For the first time the widely recognized conference on the topic of network management in research, companies and universities  will be held  as  aninternational format under the auspices of the Minister for Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst.

Speakers at the conference include Professor Wolfgang Juette,University of Bielefeld, one of its organisers and a PASCAL Associate, Dr Anders Olsson, Enterprise and Innovation Manager Region Värmland and key regional contact for PASCAL's PURE study in his region and Professor Michael Osborne, Co-director of PASCAL.