A few words about Eusja

Examining nuclear physics research at Moscow University and watching future astronauts being trained as well as informative visits covering conservation, ground-breaking medical initiatives, engineering and science policy were just a few recently organised study trips by EUSJA. Held in Finland, Estonia, Croatia, France, Italy, Germany and Hungary the trips furthered accurate information interchange between European journalists and science communicators and policy makers.

Founded in 1971 in Belgium by seven national associations of science journalists, EUSJA now represents more than 2000 science journalists from 25 countries. Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there was an upsurge of interest from Eastern European countries, all of whom now play an active role in EUSJA’s activities. Member countries are (March 2010) Albania, Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

The main goals of EUSJA are truly barrier-breaking by aiming to improve communication between the international scientific community and society and to promote contacts between journalists in the field of scientific and technical communication

EUSJA has its head office in Strasbourg at Euroscience – where it has its own secretariat. An electronic mailing list only open to science writers who are members of a national association within EUSJA keeps ensures an instant cross flow of ideas, stories and contacts.

EUSJA, c/o Euroscience
1 quai Lezay-Marnésia
67000 Strasbourg, France
Tel: + 33 3 88 24 11 50
E-mail eusja@euroscience.org

Eusja board 2010: Barbara Drillsma, vice president, Vesa Niinikangas, treasurer, Viola Egikova, secretary, Hajo Neubert, president, Janna Wellander, Eusja secretariat and Kaianders Sempler, head of communications.