INVITATION

“COMMUNICATING SCIENCE – STRENGTHENING THE – RESEARCHER, JOURNALIST,  CITIZEN – TRIANGLE”

Final conference of the FP7 Science in Society project “MY SCIENCE – European Program for Young Journalists” focusing on the theme Communicating Science in Europe, relevant for researchers, journalists and citizens of Europe

Date: Friday, 28 May 2010

Venue: EURAC Research, Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano – Italy


 Panel presentations, debate and discussion will be on the topics/questions:

Train researchers to be science communicators or give  journalists deeper insight into science communication

How should science communication to wider public look like  
in the future
Importance of ethics in Research. With emphasis - ÖTZI the Iceman
on display at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, one  
of the world’s best-known and most important mummies.
Among the guests of the conference are Peter Grünberg, German Nobel  Laureate in Physics from 2007 (Germany), Istvan Palugyai, editor of Hungarian newspaper and well known science communicator (Hungary) and Nuno Crato, winner of the EU science communicator award 2007 (Portugal).

Conference Language: English

No participation Fee; participants must pay for own travel and accommodation expenses
Kindly register by May 15, 2010 at farah.fahim@eurac.edu;

Tel: +39  0471 055214

For more information:

 Refer to attachments (Draft Conference Agenda, Project summary,  
Short CV of main speakers - also available on project website)

Please visit project website for updates:
http://www.my-science.eu/conference