SCIENCE WRITER WANTED
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) seeks science
writer for position in Copenhagen, Denmark. Apply before 21 March 2011.
Read more
WCSJ 2011 MOVES TO QATAR
The World Conference of Science
Journalists 2011 will take place in
Doha, Qatar, instead of Cairo. See the
WFSJ website for more info.
The winter 2011 issue of EUSJANEWS is now published, and can be
downloaded here.
From the contents: Newtonian physics, Sharing the bounty in Estonia, Brainy Berry Crumble, Full moon in Sevilla, Science of food and water in Girona, Breathtaking report from Colombia, Science is sexy again, Twitter versus study trips, Chemistry in Prague, Finns bid for WCSJ 2013 and lots more. Click for download
CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS TO ESOF2012 IN DUBLIN
Any ideas? Deadline 30 June 2011. Read
more
Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland.
MEET 25 NOBEL LAUREATES in physiology or medicine in Lindau (Germany) from 26 June to 1 July 2011. Click for more
INVITATION TO CONFERENCE ON NEUROPSYCHIATRY IN BUDAPEST 18–19 MARCH
2011
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences
invites through Eusja 15 European science journalists to attend the
conference ”Discovery research in neuropsychiatry – depression, anxiety
and schizophrenia in focus” in Budapest, Hungary, 18–19 mars 2011.
Apply here
before 1 Mach. Use code 232, and write ”Eusja” as organization.
INVITATION to Heidelberg and the research institutions DKFZ
and EMBL.
18–20 July 2011. Read
more
LETTER OF SOLIDARITY
It is just five months until the World Conference of Science Journalists
(WCSJ) takes place in Cairo, Egypt. Currently science journalists from around the world
are looking at Egypt, which has become a focal point in the protests
which roam the Arab world. Among the protesters is the President of
the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) and Co-Director of
WCSJ, Nadia El-Awadi, who sent her tweets from the Tahrir place
providing vivid impressions of the demonstrations... Read more.

Manifestation in Cairo, January 2011.
The RELATE project – Resarch Labs for Teaching Journalists –
invites to the project's Final Conference in Brussels on the 28th of
January 2011. More at http://relateproject.eu/press
However, no support from EUSJA is
available to attend the conference.
EUSJA STUDY TRIP to Joint Research Centre's institute IPTS in
Sevilla, Spain.
20–21 January 2010. Read more and apply.
E-learning. How has technology changed the way people learn? Expert discussion for European media. December 1st. Charlottenburg III intercontinental Berlin. Read more.
Invitation to European Innovation Conference, Liège 27–29 October
2010. Sponsored by the EU. Read more and apply.
EUSJA STUDY TRIP to Prague on the Verge of the International Year
of Chemistry
November 29th – December 1st 2010. Read more and apply.
European Commission invites science journalists to climate
conference in Brussels 25–27 October 2010.
Travel and lodging paid by the organizers. Read more here.
Eusja
headquarters is in Strasbourg, France.
Autumn 2010 issue of EusjaNews!
Among the contents: Specious nonsense, proud Greeks reports, poached Castilian cuisine, reports from ESOF2010 in Torino, Georgia and Finland. Views about commisioners, cloud computing, lost phones etc. Click for download
OPPOSE ANIMAL TESTING. Win Communications Prize worth 3000 €.
Submit before 15 September. Click for more
CALL FOR EUSJA STUDY TRIP to Girona, Spain 25-28 October 2010. Read more
WHAT HAPPENED IN TORINO?
Wolfgang
Goede reports from ”The
missing mediator”, the Eusja session on the science debates at ESOF2010
in Torino. Click here
Also see the PM–Magazin
blog
SEE EUSJA SESSION ON THE WEB
”The missing mediator”, the Eusja session on the science debates in Germany, Italy and the US at ESOF2010 in Torino, can now be seen at http://nubes.esof2010.org/stored?vid=196
Pictures from the session and an
article about the session and the
science debate (in German) is also on the Teli website, see http://www.teli.de/wissenschaftsdebatte/
See also http://www.esof2010.org/schedule/4/7b
Communication prize
The European Partnership for
Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing will grant a Communication
Prize worth 3000 €. Apply before 15 September 2010.
Click for moreNew issue of EusjaNews!
Among the contents: Italians go
global, Impressions from the General Assembly,
Slow food and roasted pork,
Second thoughts about
H C Andersen, Article physics and
Freelance fees.
Click for download
Welcome to Eusja's seminar ”The missing mediator – Science debates
in a knowledge based society” at ESOF2010 in Torino.
Speakers: Hanns-J Neubert, Shawn Otto, Wolfgang Goede and Michele
Ciavarella.
Moderator: Barbara Drillsma.
Room 4, 7 July, 10.30–11.45. Click for more
INVITATION TO “COMMUNICATING SCIENCE – STRENGTHENING THE –
RESEARCHER, JOURNALIST, CITIZEN – TRIANGLE”
Final conference of the FP7 Science
in Society project “MY SCIENCE – European Program for Young Journalists”. Friday 28 May 2010, Bolzano, Italy.
Click for more
INVITATION TO POST-ESOF PRESS TRIP TO JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE AT
ISPRA 7-9 JULY 2010
Click
for preliminary programme
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM
A prize worth 18,000 euros, it recognizes the informative work on spreading environmental values and the protection of Mediterranean environment.
Deadline 7 May 2010. Read more.
EARTH SCIENCE JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP
The third annual National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Journalism Fellowship will run from 14 - 18 June 2010 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. It introduces journalists and science communicators to atmospheric and Earth system sciences. Read more and application form.
50 grants for Europeans to come to European Science Journalism Forum offered by FECYT – The Spanish Foundation of Science and Technology.
The congress will be held in
Madrid 12 to 13 May 2010. Read more
The World Federation Bulletin October 2009 can now be downloaded by clicking here
EusjaNews Christmas 2009 can
now be downloaded by clicking here
The World Federation Bulletin October 2009 can now be downloaded by clicking here
Invitation to EESC press officers' seminar in Stockholm 26-27 November 2009
Travel expenses and accomodation will be covered. Apply before 26 October. Read more.A NEW RENAISSANCE?
Science journalists are invited to
the launch event of the first European Research Area Board (ERAB)
annual report "Preparing Europe for a New Renaissance - A Strategic
View of the European Research Area”
Brussels, Berlaymont building – VIP Corner (Ground floor), 6 October 2009 starting at 15:00.
Read more
JOIN COMPETITION to attend the international conference ”Darwin's
Living Legacy” in Alexandria, Egypt, 14–16 November 2009.
British Council and the WFSJ host
the competition.
Hurry up and apply before 18 September EUSJA STUDY TRIP TO JRC's RESEARCH CENTER AT ISPRA, ITALY.
17–18 September 2009
There are still some places left.
Hurry up and apply. Read moreTHANK YOU LONDON for a lovely 6th World Conference of Science Journalists!

Read the reviews on the Eusja session at WCSJ 2009: ”Promises, Promises – The Ethics of Unbridled Optimism” and/or listen to the whole session. Click for link
There you can also search for and find links to reviews of all the other conference sessions and events.
Next time we'll meet will be in Cairo in 2011.






