Month: March 2013
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Atomium Culture and The Role of the Media in Responsible Research and Innovation – by Jens Degett
Atomium Culture sent an official response to this post, that can be read here: https://www.eusja.org/atomiun-cultures-official-response-to-jens-degett/ Science communications is not only a question of telling nice stories that fascinate the public in the best positivistic style. It is a very important part of an advanced society to have an informed public who participate in an open…
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Presidential Address at EUSJA General Assembly 2013
At last year’s General Assembly in Leiden I gave my solemn undertaking that the Board, with its two new co-opted members would do everything possible to raise EUSJA’s profile across Europe. This I believe is vital so as to have EUSJA recognised as the first port of call when decision makers are looking to include…
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Open Forum in Venice
EUSJA journalists are invited to participate to the CO2GeoNet Open Forum 2013 (Venice, 9-10 April 2013) organized each year by the European Network of Excellence on the geological storage of CO2. It is a key opportunity for stakeholders including EU representatives, industry, regulators, public authorities, NGOs, and the research community to meet and interact directly…
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The passionate: interview with Angela Posada-Swafford
From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news Angela Posada-Swafford is one of Latin America’s leading science journalists. From Miami, the Colombian writes for the North- and South American as well as the European media. She will be part of the EUSJA workshop “Blood Infusion for Staggering Science Journalism” at the World Conference of Science…
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Ministers in South-East Europe urged to support science journalism
From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news UNESCO’s Venice Office is behind a new drive to get science journalism on the agenda of science ministers in the Balkans. A two-day UNESCO meeting in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (22-23 November 2012) brought together experts, including science journalists and EUSJA members, to draft and present a…
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A Science Media Centre for ERA? / Why science journalists must be vigilant
From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news A Science Media Centre for ERA? The UK Science Media Centre (SMC) has just celebrated its 10th anniversary and is widely acclaimed for its positive role in (re)engaging the media with science and acting as an intermedi- ary between the research community and journalists. The SMC concept…
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Keep up with change – a letter from the President
From the Spring 2013 issue of EUSJA news I am sure most of you know that the UK’s BBC has been under attack for what has been described by the chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Chris Patten, as “its shoddy journalism”. He says that the worldwide reputation the Corporation achieved for its first class…
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The Spring issue of EUSJA news is out
The Spring issue of our newsletter has just come out: the first, highlighted articles are also published online. A letter from the President A Science Media Centre for ERA? Why science journalists must be vigilant Ministers in South-East Europe urged to support science journalism The passsionate: interview with Angela Posada-Swafford Sad news…
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Are we for sale?
The conference came to an end with a great scandal. No other scheduled speech could be of an interest after the statement of a deputy minister for communication. He was invited to speak to the conference “Journalism in 2012” organized by the faculty of journalism of Moscow University. One could expect some boring address like…
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Study trip to Copenhagen
EUSJA has got 8 invitations to participate 3 days press tour (May 28-30) to Copenhagen focused to biotechnology, medicine and health research in Baltic region. The trip is a part of the ScanBalt Region programme and the BSHR HealthPort project. The goal is to give an insight into the Danish Health and Biotech sector as…