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 more

THANK 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.