Peter Tindemans, secretary general of grassroots scientists’ group EuroScience, shares his views on the forthcoming battle of the budget for Horizon 2020. Should cut be imposed on the initial budget plan, they should be made in a considerate manner, by avoiding duplication of effort and ensuring that the funding schemes are run in a leaner way. Read more [...]
The call for the 2013 European Young Researchers’ Award 2013 is open until 30th April 2013. An international selection committee will choose among PhD candidates selected from across Europe. To find out details of application, please read on. This year, the call is dedicated to PhD candidates only. Read more [...]
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is organising their upcoming AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, USA for the 5-9 December 2011. A current call for presentations is out for the "Earth Science Communication in a Changing Media Landscape" (PA03) to share experiences in the area of successful communication and interpretation via blogs and podcasts. The AGU Fall meeting is all about Earth Sciences (and geophysics in particular), but there is also a focus on science communication and science interpretation. Read more [...]
EuroScience, as a grassroots organisation, recently responded to the EU Green Paper on a Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation. Read more [...]
EuroScience recently entered into collaboration with the X_Science Festival. X_Science is organised by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Genova and by the Genova Film Festival. The festival has both science and art at its centre and aimed to enhance the value of scientific culture through cinema and science fiction. Read more [...]
“I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures”. ~Earl Warren Read more [...]
Eoin Lettice, one of our writers, has been nominated for the Eircom Spider Awards for his efforts in science communication, please vote for him. Read more [...]
Across the European Union and the wider Europe, governments are engaged in cutting public expenditure and we are entering an unprecedented period of austerity. Thus, public support for research is now at risk in a manner not seen before and just at the time when Europe faces new challenges from the rising new economies, especially in Asia, and when threats to our quality of life from climate change, demographic change and energy, food and resource availability and sustainability are becoming evermore threatening and urgent. This undermines the EU Lisbon process, to create a leading knowledge-based economy which must remain as the aim of governments and societies across Europe. Read more [...]
This June, I found out that I was going to ESOF 2010 – I was lucky to get a EuroScience travel grant as a young science journalist. I was eager to attend this forum, because I felt it was a great example of science communication, as well as an interesting Read more [...]
The EuroScience Open Forum will be held in Dublin in 2012. Martin McKenna gives us a science themed tour of Dublin to start exciting us about ESOF 2012. Read more [...]
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