Tag: Europe

  • ABSW Awards 2018

    By Mico Tatalovic, Chairman of the ABSW “Science writing awards for work published or broadcast in the UK or Irish based media in 2017 open for entry on the 1st of January 2018. https://www.absw.org.uk/absw-awards/awards.html The Awards are for works of science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) journalism/writing, in print, broadcast or online, published within the UK…

  • Alternative Facts Stop Here

    By Aisling Irwin,  science journalist, ABSW These days, scientists are dismayed at the devaluation of their principal currency: the fact. At the Falling Walls 2017 conference in Berlin last week they were making this very clear. Hundreds of delegates at the annual meeting of scientific luminaries posed in front of the splendid Brandenburg Gate holding…

  • Challenges. Reflections after the conference

    By Agnes Kittel, member of the Club of Hungarian Science Journalists If there is something which is common in the life of every being living under the Sun, it is for sure that pain belongs to it. The X Congress of the European Pain Federation /EFIC/ was held in Copenhagen between 6-9 September 2017. This…

  • GRANTS FOR SCIENCE JOURNALISTS

    The European Commission’s Science and Knowledge Service, the Joint Research Center, organizes its annual conference on 26 September around the topic of “(Scientific) Evidence for policy in a post-fact world”. The conference aims to discuss the interaction between science and policy in light of the post-fact phenomenon, involving renowned scientists, experts, journalists and media professionals…

  • Berlin Science Week

    This year again EUSJA is offered a fellowship for 10 selected journalists to attend 2 days during the Berlin Science Week (7 – 8 November) and the Falling Walls Conference (November 9). The programme will start on 7 November at the beginning of the afternoon with a Berlin-Tour that concludes at the ceremony for the Berlin Science Award.…