Category: Debate
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How to prepare for the next pandemic
The Science and Politics of Covid-19 (Springer, 2021) is one of the first popular science books published on the ongoing pandemic. Combining scientific rigour and journalistic style, the book retraces the history and the management of the pandemic in several countries. It draws upon lessons learned during the crisis, discusses the emergence of “science politics,”…
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EUSJA workshop on Nanotechnology 2019
In connection with the General Assembly 2019 in Prague EUSJA organised a one day workshop with the national representatives. This was the culmination of the Nano2All project EUSJA has been involved in the last four years. One of the outputs of the discussion among journalists was that there was a fundamental difference between nanotechnology and…
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Registration is open for the 5th European Conference of Science Journalists!
The French Association of Science Journalists (AJSPI) and the European Union of Science Journalist’s Associations (EUSJA) are pleased to announce that the 5th European Conference of Science Journalists is now open for registration. The conference, ECSJ2018, will take place in Toulouse (France) on 8 July 2018. European Conferences of Science Journalists have taken place on…
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Welcome to Confession Session!
Science Cafés have become pretty boring. Exciting new dialogue formats needs the world. Here come the Finns with: Confession Session. Mikko Myllykoski, president of the Finnish science journalists FASEJ and director of the Finnish Science Center Heureka explains it: Learn from your mistakes! Confession sessions are a new creation to enhance interactive and participative workshops.…
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And Which Wall Falls Next In Your Head?
The Falling Walls Conference in Berlin commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall. Renown scientists from around the world present Breaking Walls research. In times of rising political walls, this year’s conference took a political stance: It demanded freedom for science. A big step for science that admits: Science is political! Science is changing its…
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Shooting Star: Easy-To-Read – How to Write it
It’s a real shooting star: The new writing format emerges wherever you look throughout Europe and the world. With new job opportunities for science journalists! At the European Conference of Science Journalists ECSJ 2017 in Copenhagen, Hamburg-based trainer Ilse Furian showed examples from Germany, UK, Sweden. RAPID TEXT NAVIGATION She explained why an increasing percentage…
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Make scientific facts great again. What Europe can do about it!
In recent years the world has seen a surge of populist movements that deny or distort scientific facts. Europe is not immune to these developments as can be seen in electoral results from all corners of the continent, West and East, North and South. The session will discuss the reasons for these developments and discuss…
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So you wanna communicate science?
What needs to be narrated, if an oldie of this profession teaches decades younger newcomers in the trade of science journalism and science communication in general? A report of a three-day mission to a place, which was looked down upon as the boonies, but turns out an emerging center of excellence on the global academic map.…
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How to Make Neurons ROCK — Toolbox with 20 methods
Put your powerpoint presentations into the bin. How to get into the flow with your audience: from fish bowls, over line-ups to scientific standup comedies. An EUSJA session at PCST 2016 Istanbul packed a toolbox. A contribution to World Press Freedom Day on May 3. EUSJA president emeritus Satu Lipponen, Finish health journalist, introduced the…
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New Unity Found in a Rough Environment
2nd European Conference of Science Journalists Budapest 2015: a 1st prelimary synopsis and evaluation. The 2nd European Conference for Science Journalists ECSJ, held on the 3rd of November 2015 in the Hungarian Academy of Science, was a powerful showing of a revitalized and reunited European science journalism. Here come highlights of five panels*, at the end…