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EuroScience Latest News November 2013

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The New European Science TV and New Media Awards Evening held in Lisbon on the 22nd November this Follow us on Twitter year was an enormous success. The organizers EuroScience, EuroPAWS and Ciencia Viva were very pleased to award altogether nine prizes to the authors of productions judged as best in their category. Read our webzine See below the list of the nine winning productions: E­mail to a Friend

The Best TV Documentary: The Wonders of Life, Episode 1 BBC, UK

The Best TV Drama: Legacy, from the series Silent Witness, BBC, UK

The Best TV Docu­Drama: Hugo’s Brain, Elzevir Films for France 2

The Best TV General Programme: Science Club, Episode 6 BBC, UK

The Best New Media Production: The Human Animal, The Natural History Museum of Denmark

and four prizes for what we call Science in Society categories: ESOF2014 Best Presentation of Science in an Environment Issue: Japan Tsunami: How it Happened, Pioneer Productions for Channel 4, UK The Call for applications for the Nature Travel Best Presentation of Medical Research: Eat, Fast, and Live Longer, from the series Horizon, BBC, Grant Scheme for UK journalists is still open!!

Best Presentation of or by a Woman Scientist/Engineer: *MND: The Inside Track, Independent Given the great success of the Pictures for RTE Ireland Nature Travel Grant Scheme for journalists at ESOF2012, a The Best Production awarded by the theatre audience: The Challenger, BBC, UK new edition of the scheme is going to take place at the * Because of the powerful medical story in the winning programme the jury decided to designate this ESOF2014 meeting in Award: The Best Medical Production featuring a Woman Scientist from 21­26 June 2014.

N.B: EuroScience Vice President, Professor Martin Andler, handed over a Prize to the winner of the "Best Please click here to view more New Media" production. information on the Call for the Nature Travel Grant Scheme More information and pictures will come on our website soon. for journalists.

EuroScience President and Secretary­General invite universities to support The Euroscientist ESOF Published in November Lauritz Holm­Nielsen and Peter Tindemans have written letters To access the new articles click on the links below. Feel free to comment on them and share them: to European universities to invite to support ESOF Fostering the adaptive creative thinker in every child Copenhagen. One way is to Matt Black: electronic music, under scientific influence send a bus, with of course full French universities: when autonomy rhymes with bankruptcy university colours, with The case for fostering school­industry collaboration students to Copenhagen. If research and education is expensive, try ignorance Another is to provide some Austerity damages countries’ international scientific aura, isolating scientists grants to their own students or Innovative and competitive researchers: a must for society in general to EuroScience.

Two cultural and economic growth factors: basic and curiosity­driven research Download the invitation European Science is dead: long live European Science! here.

The downloadable pdf includes Euroscientist Special Issue on the future of science education! the letter to universities, the This Special Issue of the Euroscientist is your chance to share your views on how you would like to description of the science bus educational system evolve. proposal and the description of the grants to ESOF call. To give you food for thoughts, we offer you some selected view points from across a panel of experts currently shaping the future of science education. ESOF 2014 is looking for communications interns Enquiry­based teaching Do you master social media? The ESOF2014 team is looking Gaming calls upon science to enhance player’s experience for 1­2 interns to manage a Flavouring science education with a sprinkle of current research range of digital communication Tech to help foster science vocations early platforms targeting both A pathway to inquiry­based teaching national and international When magic stimulates science education audiences. http://esof2014.org/

Open education Danish research institutions invited to Making the long tail of scientific resources mainstream assist ESOF media team lagging behind in open education: for how long? Open education: an opportunity for South Africa’s science education Danish research institutions, Virtual degrees may matter more to emerging economies including universities and other institutions of higher education, are invited to participate in a Reader Survey collaboration with the Danish http://us5.campaign­archive1.com/?u=c352b9f258b8f1483083d4072&id=4e020e308e 1/2 6/8/2015 EuroScience Latest News­ November 2013 It is time for you to tell us what you think of the Euroscientist. We would kindly like to ask you to take a Agency for Science, few minutes to complete our survey about the Euroscientist webzine! Technology and Innovation on servicing the media during Euro Take this survey! Science Open Forum (ESOF 2014) in Copenhagen in June next year. Noowit Edition Read more (please be aware The Euroscientist is at the forefront of web 2.0 publishing and offers you an enhanced version of its that this call is in Danish only) magazine. This innovative noowit version, offers curated content of relevance to the topics covered by the Euroscientist so that you can get a 360 degree vision of what is happening in fields of interest to scientists. ESOF 2014 newsletter #5 See the preview here: www.noowit.com/ euroscientist Read it here >> The Euroscientist YouTube channel Subscribe here! News from our friends

Eurodoc Newsletter Issue Science Policy 13 "The new EURODOC Newsletter EU­Russia Science Year launched brings us the first glimpse of the next Eurodoc conference, The EU­Russia Science Year was officially launched this Monday. Dr. Nelly Didenko, who is a member of to be held in Budapest, the ES Governing Board and the coordinator of the ES Russian Local Section, represented EuroScience in Hungary next March. This will this unique event. be a new opportunity to discuss the conditions of early stage Read more about the event: researchers all over Europe and the prospects for the Official website future." Official press release Read the newsletter. Seeking a sustainable future for European Science If you have any news to The workshop entitled “Seeking a sustainable future for European Science” organised by EuroScience in communicate via our cooperation with La Caixa and Ateneu Barcèlones took place on the 8th November in . Thank Newsletter please send it to you to EuroScience GB members Gilles Mirambeau, Amaya Moro Martin and José Mariano Gago, and to the EuroScience Office. Michele Catanzaro, a science writer for the webzine Euroscientist, who are the initiators of this event.

Read more in the Euroscientist: If research and education is expensive, try ignorance

See the conference video below (in Spanish). An edited English version will soon be available.

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