• 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…

  • Travel grants for the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum

    This September 20-25, recipients of the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, and the Nevanlinna Prize are invited to gather in Heidelberg to meet with 200 young researchers from all over the world at the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). In order to reach a broader, more international audience, the…

  • 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…

  • Forum in Valencia

    By Agnes Kittel This year Valencia (Spain)  was the host city of the present conference of a biennial series organized by the European Pain Association (EFIC).  The conference was held in the FIRA Center between  September 4-7, 2019 and visited by 3500 participants . This series of conferences is a special one. The audience could…

  • European Health Forum Gastein 2019

    By Agnes Kittel Austria has many places famous about their natural beauty and it is for sure that Bad Hofgastein is among the best ones. The mountains with or without snow on their top, surround the little town, which new and older but evenly nicely decorated houses, villas and hotels, everything reveals richness and peacefulness…

  • The importance to combat climate change and environmental pollution to protect human health in Europe

    By Bartolomeo Buscema Healthcare in Europe is provided through a wide range of different systems run at individual national levels. There is a need to harmonize all national systems in order to achieve best practices together with economical results. In this scenery, about six hundred  of  European health policy experts , member of civil society, academia and…

  • 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…

  • Open Call for Journalists Grant Applications

            The Hungarian Academy of Sciences  & the European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations Announce Grant Scheme for Journalists Attending the 9th World Science Forum in Budapest, 20-23 November 2019 www.worldscienceforum.org Background The 2019 World Science Forum (WSF) will take place between 20-23 November in Budapest under the title “Science, Ethics and Responsibility”.…

  • EFIC 2019 : networking for fighting pain

    By Cinzia Bolschiero, science journalist (UGIS, Italy)  Ten EUSJA journalists attended  recently one of the biggest European congresses. And here is the first blog that has been sent by our members to EUSJA web page.              The Congress, EFIC 2019 held between 4 – 7 September in Valencia, Spain, is the largest scientific congress on…

  • Obituary Werner Hadorn

      Swiss science journalist Werner Hadorn, cofounder of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) in 2002 and President of the European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations (EUSJA) 2000-2004, passed away on July 31st, at the age of 78. The funeral will take place on August 16that 14:00 in Chapel 2 of Friedhofs Biel-Madretsch, Brüggerstrasse…