Dates for your diary.

IPAV

Meeting: board of directors of the Confederation of European Estate Agents, June 30th, Berlin, Germany.

Course: enrolment taking place for cert in auctioneering and estate agency. Venues: institutes of technology Cork, Waterford, Tallaght and Galway. Application forms at www.ipav.ie or 01-678 6585.

Course: enrolment taking place for cert and diploma in fine and decorative arts. Application forms at www.ipav.ie or 01-678 6585.

IAVI

Seminar: update on the retail market, July 9th, 5.30pm. Speaker: Larry Brennan, FIAVI, Savills HOK, 38 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.

Course: urban development and investment appraisal course, July 24th, 25th, 31st and August 1st, 9am to 1pm. Course facilitator: Dr Brendan Williams. Details: Julie Creedon. E-mail: julie@iavi.ie.

Irish Property Owners Association

Course: professional training in aspects of residential property rental in Ireland. Details: 01-827 6000, e-mail info@ipoa.ie or www.ipoa.ie.

RIAI

Course: health and safety - designing for safety. Details: Teresa Harte at tharte@riai.ie or 01-669 1472.

Institute of Project Management

Course: diploma in applied project management starts Dublin/Cork September 2008.

Course: project management passport. Starts: Dublin, Limerick (September) and Cork (October).

Course: international certification. Details: 01-6614 677 or e-mail info@projectmanagement.ie or www.projectmanagement.ie.

Organic Centre

Course: learn how to live the good life - organic gardening, growing and using herbs and fruit, cheesemaking, baking and wholefood cooking, jam making, etc. July 21st to 25th. Fee: €690.

Event: garden party, grow your own, make a difference, save money, have fun. Action-packed day on how to grow organic food plus guided tours around the gardens and orchard. July 20th, 11am to 5pm. Fee: €7 with children free. Details: 071-985 4338 or e-mail info@theorganiccentre.ie or www.theorganiccentre.ie.

Irish Complimentary Educational Systems

Workshop: property masterclass, September 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, October 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th.

Irish Architectural Archive

Exhibition: North by North West - the Life and Work of Liam McCormick. Exhibition will run until July 4th (Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm). All lectures are free and open to the public and take place in the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Booking is essential. Details: 01-663 3040 or e-mail slincoln@iarc.ie.

Achill Archaeological Field School

Course: digital survey, mapping and CAD for archaeologists, July 12th.

Course: archaeology professional development - advanced digital survey, mapping and CAD. July 26th.

Course: introduction to maritime archaeology, August 11th to 15th. Details: 098-43564 or e-mail info@achill-fieldschool.com or www.achill-fieldschool.com.

Course: bare bones. Intensive course in excavation and recording procedures on site, plus one-day tour of archaeological sites on Achill Island or nearby Clare Island in Clew Bay. August 11th.

Event: open day - Slievemore deserted village, today from 11am to 4pm. Explore and study the houses, try out some surveying techniques, watch excavators at work. Admission free.

European Network for Housing Research

Conference: Shrinking cities, sprawling suburbs, changing countrysides, July 6th to 9th, UCD. Speakers from Ireland, Europe, North America and Australia. Details: www.enhr2008.com.

Business to Art

Exhibition: 10,000 to 50 - contemporary art from the members of Business to Arts on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art until August 4th, www.businesstoarts.ie.

National Irish Safety Organisation

Course: health and safety for the non-safety specialist, July 1st and 8th, Marino Institute of Education, D9.

Course: VDU/DSE assessor course, July 7th and 9th, NISO, Ballymount, D12.

Course: safe pass, July 2nd, Marino Institute of Education, D9.

Course: risk assessment and safety statement course, July 9th and 16th, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin 9.

Course: manual handling instructor course, July 21st to 23rd and July 28th and 29th, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin 9.

Course: manual handling instructor refresher course, July 22nd and 23rd, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin 9.

Course: safe pass every Friday at NISO, Ballymount, Dublin 12. Details: 01 465 9760. E-mail: info@niso.ie or visit www.niso.ie

Dun Laoghaire College of Further Education

Course: architectural technology and design, furniture design and manufacture and construction technology, FETAC awarded full-time courses starting September 2008. Details: 01-280 9676 or www.dlcfe.ie.

Pearse College of Further Education

Course: architectural draughting and CAD FETAC level five, starts September 2008.

Course: architectural technology and design. FETAC level six, starts September 2008. Details: 01-453 6661, www.pearsecollege.ie.

Senior College Dun Laoghaire

Course: interior design. One, two or three years, mornings option, RHODEC and higher national diploma qualifications possible.

Course: garden design. Two-year higher national diploma, leading to one further year for degree at University of Gloucester.

Course: landscape design. Two-year higher national diploma, leading to one year for degree at University of Gloucester.

Course: auctioneering. Two-year cert (IPAV), leading to two years for degree at College of Commerce, Cork and University of West England.

Course: health and safety, one-year for higher national certificate, two years for higher national diploma, mornings option. Details: 01-280 0385, e-mail office@scd.ie or www.scd.ie.

Organisations should send entries to Mary Hetherington before noon on Thursday for inclusion the following Thursday. Telephone: 01-675 8000; fax: 01-675 8037; e-mail mhetherington@irish-times.ie