Month: September 2015

  • Cancer World Journalist Grants 2015

    The Cancer World Journalist Grant was created in order to encourage high-quality reporting on cancer. Print, broadcast and new media journalists are invited to apply for a Cancer WorldJournalist Grant that will enable them complete a reporting project on a particular topic relating to cancer. We are looking for projects that explore systemic issues that have a…

  • PRESS TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT: ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform, Lisbon, 20-22 October

    This year’s ICT 2015, the largest and most important ICT event in the EU agenda since 1998, is being organised by the European Commission and Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia and will take place from 20-22 October 2015 in Lisbon. The event aims to bring together over 4500 ICT stakeholders representing research, politics, industry, start-ups, investors, and…

  • The Science Tour of Heidelberg and Network Event

    The Science Tour of Heidelberg and Network Event

    Bringing together European members of National Association of Science Writers NASW*, International Science Writers ISWA** and the German Baden-Württemberg local group of science writers around Judith Rauch! A Two-Day Event at: The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) The House of Astronomy and Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)…

  • Workshop in Brussels for science journalists: “Benefits and Risks of Nanotechnology”

    08 October 2015 in Brussels, 10.00-14.00 at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, in Brussels, Belgium. Nanotechnology is a rising topic for science journalists as the public is increasingly aware of ever new “nano” products entering the market. Are they dangerous? Are they safe? What is so interesting about “nano”? Science journalists…

  • Let’s talk about nano! NanoDiode project launches a school student video contest on nanotechnologies

    Let’s talk about nano! NanoDiode project launches a school student video contest on nanotechnologies

    Nanotechnology is all around us; it’s almost everywhere! Nanotechnology is able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials energy production, and consumer products. • In medicine, researchers are developing customized nanoparticles the size of molecules that can deliver drugs directly to diseased cells…