Portugal is increasingly establishing itself as one of the world’s leading destinations for international congresses and association meetings. The latest ICCA Country & City Rankings 2025 confirm this momentum with record-breaking results, placing the country, and particularly Lisbon, at the center of the global MICE industry landscape.
According to the International Congress and Convention Association, Lisbon secured the #1 position worldwide among cities hosting international association meetings and congresses in 2025, with a total of 188 qualifying events.
The Portuguese capital surpassed traditionally dominant destinations in the sector, including Paris, with 174 congresses, and Barcelona, with 166.
But this achievement goes far beyond a position in an international ranking.
It reflects the growing confidence of the international scientific, academic, and association communities in Portugal as a destination fully prepared to host knowledge-sharing, innovation, collaboration, and world-class global events.
It is with great pleasure that Abreu Events is the organizer of ETP Seminars & Turf Expo 2018, to be held in Comporta from 24 to 26 October 2018.
As customary by now for ETP at this time of the year, turf growers from all over Europe and the rest of the World will gather in the new nursery that has opened in Comporta, for learning, meeting, networking and evaluating machinery and products for sod farming.
Abreu Events will once again be the organizer of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Conference of Coimbra, which will take place at the Hotel Vila Galé Coimbra from November 8 to 10, 2018, at its 22nd edition.
More than 900 participants attended the 21tst edition, where the registrations available for the conference ran out before the end of the enrolment period.
It is with great pleasure that Abreu Events is the organizer of the SynerCrete18: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Cement-based Materials and Structural Concrete: Synergizing Expertise and Bridging Scales of Space and Time, which will take place in Funchal, Madeira Island, from 24 to 26 October 2018.
The focus of the conference is set to communicating, discussing and arousing progresses in research, development and application of Cement-Based Materials and Structural Concrete, which have been attained through combination of expertise from distinct fields of knowledge.
The International Conference on the Short Story in English, which will be held in Lisbon from June 27 to 30, 2018, is now in its 15th edition and counts with Abreu Events organization.
The theme of this edition is "Beyond History: The Radiance of the Short Story" and brings writers of many nationalities to Lisbon, a city where the cultures of the world meet and stories of history unravel around every corner.
It is with great pleasure that Abreu Events is the organizer of the 23rd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2018 that will take place in Lisbon.
As per its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including, from Tuesday to Thursday, three days of parallel scientific, technical and industrial programs, along with tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday.
The conference will provide an international forum for researchers, developers and users of reliable software technologies all over the world. Presentations and discussions cover applied and theoretical work currently conducted to support, the development and maintenance of reliable software systems.
EHPRG 2018 is an international meeting that brings together several scientists working on high pressure, which will take place from September 2 to 7, 2018, at the Cultural and Congress Center of Aveiro.
This meeting, already in its 56th edition, began in 1963, when a group of scientists and engineers, involved in research in the area of high pressure, decided to meet annually. The reasonable size of the group, the selection of topics, the quality of the meetings, the low conference rates and the friendly relations among the participants made the EHPRG meetings attractive and with increasingly participant.
High pressure research is a fast growing discipline, yielding interesting and exciting results in many fields of science, technology and biotechnology, and HPRG contributes to this development by bringing people together.
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