Category: News
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EUSJA Session on COVID-19 in Trieste
If you missed it you can see the video here
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EUSJA Session at ESOF2020 in Trieste
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Myths and facts on vaccination
Since vaccines have eliminated and reduced most vaccine-preventable diseases, people tend not to remember just how devastating these lifethreatening diseases can be. Vaccination is the most cost-effective medical intervention ever introduced and, together with clean water and sanitation, it has eliminated many infectious diseases that once killed millions of people. A report of the World…
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Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum
This year the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (September 21–25) will be digital. Science journalists are invited to attend this interesting meeting. On Monday, September 21, the organizers begin to “Traverse Separation” with the Virtual HLF! Journalists will have access to the vast majority of the program points. Register here: https://application.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/journalists.php Highlights: · Interviews with the most recent recipients…
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JOURNALISM RESEARCH GRANT: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Falling Walls Foundation is offering a research grant to support media representatives from around the world to report on a scientific topic related to Berlin Science Week 2020. Selected journalists will be given exclusive access to the participating organizations of Berlin Science Week and their associated experts. The Falling Walls Foundation calls for…
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Press release on the fake ECSJ 2020 in Trieste
The European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations (EUSJA) would like to announce that it is not responsible for the organisation of the fake ECSJ 2020 in Trieste, nor does it endorse it. EUSJA has organised the “European Conference for Science Journalists” or ECSJ in connection with the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) and the World Science…
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Scholarships to attend the Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize Award Ceremony
Two journalists will be invited to attend the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize Award Ceremony, as well as Academic Celebrations in Bergen and Oslo, Norway (2-5 June, 2020). The two recipients of the grants will be guests of the Holberg Prize and the University of Bergen and will be invited to all the…
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Win travel grants for Oslo!
Two travel grants offered to science journalists to attend the Abel Prize week in Oslo, Norway, 18-20 May 2020. The Abel Prize is an annual international prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics. In addition to honoring outstanding mathematicians, the Abel Prize shall contribute towards raising the status of mathematics in…
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Do We Need ITER, the $45-Billion Fusion Experiment?
We got a book that certainly will help to answer this question. “The Giant Fusion Reactor” (Springer 2020) is the first book published on the ongoing fusion energy megaproject – one of the most fascinating endeavours of our time We have many reasons to announce this book. The author of “The Giant Fusion Reactor” is…
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Pain, just a symptom or a disease on its right?
By Merce Piqueras When I told a friend of mine, who is a nurse, that I was to attend a meeting on pain, she asked me: “Is it an anaesthesiology meeting?” My friend, like other professionals of health, assumes that pain is the province of anaesthesiologists, the specialists whose main task is to prevent pain…