Category: News

  • Letter to the Science Journalists in Japan

    To our colleagues in
    the Medical Journalists Association of Japan and
    the Japanese Science Journalists Association

    Dear Secretary-General Ryu Kondoh,
    dear President Shun’ichi Takaebe

    your friends across Europe are watching and listening to the unfolding crisis which is so severely affecting your country. We are desperately sorry.

    We are aware that many of you will have been directly involved in the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. We are certain there will be those who have family and friends caught up in these horrors. Others are bound to be troubled by the reporting of these incidents.

    As you may know, the World Congress of Science Journalists took place in 1992, initiated by EUSJA and Japanese Science journalists. This led to the inauguration of the World Federation in 2002.


    Tonight EUSJA is celebrating its 40th anniversary in Budapest with two colleagues, Istvan Palugyai and Werner Hadon who were present in Tokyo in 1992, along too with representatives of 24 different countries. We have raised our glasses to you in a token of our solidarity, sympathy and continuing support.


    With kind regards


    The EUSJA board:

    Hanns-J. Neubert (President), Barbara Drillsma (Vice-President), Elmar Veerman (Treasurer), Viola Egikova (Honorary Secretary)

  • WCSJ 2011 Moves to Qatar

    The World Conference of Science Journalists 2011 will take place in Doha, Qatar, instead of Cairo: Cairo has been witness to very exciting times in the past few weeks and Egypt has now started the inspiring but demanding process of birthing a new democracy. This will take time and a lot of vigilance and hard work on the part of the Egyptian people.

    The organizers of the World Conference of Science Journalists 2011 had to come to the very difficult decision of relocating the conference. We realize that many science journalists were looking forward to visiting a new and exciting Cairo and that so many were hoping to visit Tahrir Square that was just down the road from our conference venue. There were too many uncertainties, unfortunately, and we felt our priority needed to be providing a stable and safe environment to hold a successful conference.

    More from Nadia El-Awady at the WFSJ website.

  • EUSJA News winter 2011

    The winter 2011 issue of EUSJANEWS is now published, and can be downloaded here. From the contents:

    • Newtonian physics
    • Sharing the bounty in Estonia
    • Brainy Berry Crumble
    • Full moon in Sevilla
    • Science of food and water in Girona
    • Breathtaking report from Colombia
    • Science is sexy again
    • Twitter versus study trips
    • Chemistry in Prague
    • Finns bid for WCSJ 2013

    … and lots more …