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6/8/2015 *|MC:SUBJECT|* EuroScience newsletter: Calls Open, Science Policy, Is this email not displaying Euroscientist,.. correctly? View it in your browser EuroScience Latest News June 2013 ESOF 2014: One year to go CONNECT WITH US We are one year from the opening of the Euroscience Open Forum 2014. The ESOF 2014 Like us on Facebook Programme Committee has received the scientific proposals, the business and careers Follow us on Twitter programme is being developed (see below). ESOF 2014 is a grass root event with many people offering their expertise pro bono in the service of science. A sincere thanks to the Read our blog committees working for ESOF 2014: see who they are here. Email to a Friend Science to Business Program call is now open and ends 11/08/2013 Career Programme call is now open and ends 11/08/2013 Read more about the currently running calls for proposals. The calls for proposals of the Scientific Programme and Science in the City Programme are now closed. European Young Researchers’ award 2013 News from our members This year the European Young Researchers’ Award (EYRA 2013) was to recognize researchers preparing their first PhD, who have demonstrated outstanding research performance and leadership and have incorporated a clear European dimension into their Russian Local Section research. Open call: Contest of research projects carried out by young The International Selection Committee appointed by the scientists from foreign EuroScience Board has unanimously recommended to award the 2013 countries based in research EYRA to Luz Rello! institutions of the Russian Federation in 2013. Deadline for application: July 30th Scientific field: Computer Science, Accessibility Affiliation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Read more on the page of the Russian local section. European Science TV and New Media Festival News from our 2013 Festival partners This year’s festival was held on the 14th16th June in the Science SciCom Gallery Dublin, Ireland. Euroscience and EuroPAWS have put lots of efforts to better communicate the festival at large and to put together Euroscience and ESOF2014 an intriguing programme with around 70 high quality productions and prominently present at the two discussion panels. To know more about the overall programme, Addictions Consultation Event categories and panel discussions please go to our dedicated website. 2013, organized by SciCom. Euroscience Note that the second part of the event is the award evening which takes place later in SecretaryGeneral, Dr. Pieter the same year. As previous year, it will again be hosted by Ciencia Viva in Lisbon, Tindemans, was also a conference delegate. Portugal. Euroscience Governing Board Member; 2014 International Read also in the Euroscientist: What brings science, drama, controversy and Media & Marketing Committee innovation together? ViceChair; and SciCom CEO, Aidan Gilligan, was the global 2014 Festival event convener, organiser, rapporteur and sponsor. Read The European Science TV and New Media Festival 2014 will take place in Copenhagen at more about the event and ESOF2014 as an integral part the Science in the City Programme. see pictures. Euroscientist If you have any news to Enjoy our brand new articles communicate via our Newsletter please send it to the Articles published in June, click on the links to open the articles, read them and share EuroScience Office. them: Is the new French research and education reform going far enough? Winner of the 2013 European Young Researchers’ Award announced What brings science, drama, controversy and innovation together? ‘Solve’ is the new mantra A pathway to inquirybased teaching Cultural literacy for today’s Europe Fusion: waste of research money or solution to world’s energy crisis? Case study of brain drain from Spain to Germany: a reversible process? Tentative solutions to Balkans’ science anaemia http://members.euroscience.org/tl_files/Euroscience/Communication/Publications/Euroscience%20Newsletter%20June.html 1/3 6/8/2015 *|MC:SUBJECT|* Balkan R&D is largely anaemic, with an exception I love the Euroscientist Contemporary green innovation can still make us dream Genius endangered: intelligence is not just cartesian Do science girls have an image problem? Crowdfunding The ES Webzine ‘Euroscientist’ closed on 11 June its Crowdfunding campaign launched on 15 April. The campaign attracted 19 founders, however the amount did not reach the set target of 100 000€. On the other hand, the communication campaign behind the Crowfunding significantly increased the visibility of the Euroscientist as the website traffic has tripled during the last two months (compared to January). Check the archived campaign anytime. Remember the video campaign: *|YOUTUBE:[$vid=ROmlkCfChfQ]|* Young Researchers and Students to ESOF2014 The active participation of young researchers, in the early stages of their careers, in ESOF is a major contributor to the success of the meetings. Their presence greatly enriches the Scientific Programme, and a parallel Careers Programme addresses many of their particular interests and concerns. On the other hand ESOF provides young researchers and students with a unique opportunity to listen to and interact with leading scientists from fields outside their own specialty. However, young researchers and students have limited resources for attending international meetings and cost can be a prohibitive barrier to participation. EuroScience is actively helping to bring young researchers and students to ESOF2014. Science Bus EuroScience is approaching universities to support young researchers and students to attend ESOF 2014. EuroScience and the ESOF local organizers wish to encourage and promote the participation of groups of graduate and PhD candidates. The groups will reach Copenhagen by bus (ideally a low emission vehicle). Selected participants will have access to all ESOF 2014 programmes and to the specific sessions dedicated to young researchers. This project is based on the successful Barcelona and Torino Science Bus event, realized by the ESOF 2008 and ESOF 2010 Team that brought to Barcelona 40 and to Torino 30 students. Interested universities are invited to contact the EuroScience Office for further information. Individual grants EuroScience is organizing a fundraising campaign to sponsor individual young researchers and students to attend ESOF 2014. Interested sponsors are invited to contact the EuroScience Office for further information. European Calls and Projects Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) TOOLS The RRI TOOLS project submitted under the FP7 SiS Work programme, has been selected as successful and the negotiation process is ongoing. The coordinator of the project is La Caixa Foundation and EuroScience is involved in WP1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and is also the leader of the WP6 on ‘Communication and Dissemination’. Altogether there are 27 partners, with the total of 6 942 173€ funded by the EC. The project duration is 36 months with a presumed start at the beginning of 2014. Project summary: This project will develop and use a Training and Dissemination Toolkit on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). It will be addressed and designed by all the stakeholders of the Research and Innovation (RI) chain of value, including Researchers, Civil Society, Industry and Education but will specially focus on Policy Makers in order to impact significantly in the future governance of RI. EPITRUST The proposal entitled "EPIdemics mutual learning for building TRUST” where EuroScience is the coordinator has been favourably evaluated. However, given the proposal’s position in the ranked lists of proposals, it is unlikely that this will receive funding. Project summary: http://members.euroscience.org/tl_files/Euroscience/Communication/Publications/Euroscience%20Newsletter%20June.html 2/3 6/8/2015 *|MC:SUBJECT|* EPITRUST is a Mobilisation and Mutual Learning process on building TRUST relationships in the case of epidemics in European societies, through better knowledge and preparedness to fight infectious diseases (ID). The Consortium represents Industry, Medical Bodies, Media, Universities, Academy and SiS specialists from NGOs or public bodies, from 16 countries (among them 3 associated countries). Its goal is to establish a series of recommendations and tools emanating from collaboration between ID stakeholders. STOA EuroScience has submitted a tender to a STOA Call for providing services in the area of science, technology and innovation policy for the next 4 years. EuroScience leads a consortium. The outcome should be communicated soon. If you wish to unsuscribe please click on the following options: unsubscribe from this list (for non Euroscience members) update subscription preferences in your Euroscience member profile Euroscience 1 quai LezayMarnésia 67000 Strasbourg Tel : +33 (0) 3 88 24 11 50 Fax : +33 (0) 3 88 24 75 56 http://members.euroscience.org/tl_files/Euroscience/Communication/Publications/Euroscience%20Newsletter%20June.html 3/3.