Tag: Euroscience

  • European Science TV & New Media Festival & Awards 2017/18

    The organizers of the Festival are pleased to announce the Call for TV programmes or New Media productions for the 2017/18 European Science TV and New Media Festival and Awards. The range of categories is similar to that in 2016, expanded to nine Awards set out below. These include all the TV and New Media genres and Science in Society categories from previous years plus two subject based prizes following the success of the Physics Prize over the last two years. The festival and awards will again be in Lisbon, Portugal, but the season has changed to avoid a clash of activities in Lisbon, so will be in March 2018. 
    The deadline for entries in all the nine categories is Friday 30 June 2017.

    List of Categories

    A production can be eligible in more than one category; these may be designated either by the entrant or the organizers. The “genre” categories are:

    The Best European Production involving Science in the following four genres:

    • TV Documentary
    • TV Drama and Docu-drama
    • TV General programmes like magazines or current affairs (an item or a complete programme)
    • Informational or promotional Video and Productions for the Web or Science Centres/Museums

    The three so-called “Science in Society” areas are:

    • The Environment
    • Medical Research
    • Women in Science

    And the two categories focusing on areas of science and technology are:

    • The best production presenting Physics.
    • The best production presenting any branch of Engineering

    There will also be dialogue created on Facebook and Twitter in relation to issues in the films and in the festival discussion. This will be flagged in advance and continue during the festival.

    The Festival and Awards 2017/18 is organized jointly by EuroScience, Apordoc Portugal, and EuroPAWS.

    More about this call and how to apply: http://www.euroscience.org/news/sci-doc201718/

  • ESOF opens call for 40 media travel grants

    logoThe organisers of Europe’s largest general science event, EuroScience Open Forum, invite journalists from around the world to apply for media travel grants. It is expected that 250 media representatives will be at the science forum in Copenhagen from 21-26 June 2014.

    The slogan of EuroScience Open Forum 2014 in Copenhagen is ‘Science Building Bridges’. One of the main objectives of the event is to build links between the media and the research community by providing a platform where journalists can discuss and report on the latest scientific developments.
    EuroScience Open Forum 2014 (ESOF2014) will offer an extensive media programme for journalists, editors, bloggers and social media operators with six days of activities in The Carlsberg City District, where both the science forum and the festival Science in the City take place.
    To secure that journalists from a broad range of news organisations take part, ESOF2014 has announced a Media Travel Grant Scheme. The call for applications for the grant has now opened – to read more please go to http://esof2014.org/media-room/media-travel-grant.

    About EuroScience Open Forum 2014 in Copenhagen
    · EuroScience Open Forum 2014 takes place from 21- 26 June.
    · The event consists of a forum with numerous scientific sessions and a science festival.
    · The Science in the City Festival is a free-admission event open to the public.
    · Journalists can apply for free media accreditation.
    · Both the forum and the festival will take place in The Carlsberg City District.
    The programme at EuroScience Open Forum 2014
    · 405 speakers from 39 countries are confirmed for the forum (February 2014)
    · 41 percent of the speakers are female (February 2014)
    · The Nobel Laureates Serge Haroche, Collège de France, Brian Schmidt, Australian National University, Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, will be among the speakers.
    About EuroScience Open Forum
    EuroScience Open Forum is a biannual event, which was first held in Stockholm in 2004. Since then, it has been held in Munich (2006), Barcelona (2008), Torino (2010) and Dublin (2012).

    ESOF was created by Euroscience, the grass-root organisation for science, technology and innovation in Europe.
    Media Accreditation
    http://esof2014.org/media-room/press-accreditation
    For further information, please contact:
    Press Officer Peter Krause, EuroScience Open Forum 2014
    E-mail: pkr@fi.fk
    T: +45 91 33 79 15

  • EUSJA-sessions at the upcoming ESOF in Dublin

    The Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is Europe’s largest general science meeting and is held in a leading European city every two years. It is an interdisciplinary, pan-European meeting, held under the auspices of Euroscience, and the first meeting was held in Stockholm in 2004, followed by Munich (2006), Barcelona (2008) and Turin (2010).

    Dublin was awarded the honour of hosting ESOF in 2012, following an open competition. Copenhagen will host then event in 2014. This year, EUSJA board-members will be hosting two sessions:

    IS SCIENCE JOURNALISM DEAD OR DOES IT JUST SMELL FUNNY?
    Speakers Brian Trench, Nadia El-Awady, Wolfgang Goede, Elisabetta Tola, Martin Robbins

    This round table debate on the current standing of science journalism includes a panel of experienced journalists, some with decades of specialist involvement in science journalism, and all with strong views and concerns on science journalism. Among the issues affecting the health of science journalism to be considered in this debate are:

    • Increasing direct communication to the public by scientific bodies that is tending to reduce the need for journalist intermediaries
    • Proliferation and diversification of internet news and commentary blurring the distinctions between professional, independent reporting and amateur and partisan coverage
    • Growing perception that the routines of established science journalism are worn-out and that science reporting is too vulnerable to claims of ‘breakthrough’ and ‘world-first’
    • Reduction in specialist staff science journalists due to financial pressures on many media and the restructuring of employment as largely casual, desk-bound and generalist
    • Increasing exposure of generalist journalists to topics with important scientific dimensions (e.g. epidemics, pandemics, ash clouds, extreme weather, water stress)

    WHAT WILL POWER EUROPE’S FUTURE?
    Speakers Wolfgang Goede, Hanns-Joachim Neubert, Mariko Takahashi, Denis Delbecq, Barbara Drillsma

    The catastrophic failure of the Japanese power plant in Fukushima has divided Europe over the future use of nuclear energy. In almost every country, there have been calls to reassess the risks and benefits of nuclear power and to slow down the construction of new power plants.

    The European debate raises some critical – and difficult – questions. This workshop will explore the societal, cultural and journalistic concerns. It will look at science journalism coverage of the tensions between science/technology, economical constraints and political purposes using the example of nuclear power and energy in general.

    Debaters will trigger an audience discussion about old and new roles for science journalism in democratic processes using the example of nuclear power and energy in general. A final summary may eventually lead to an action plan for a new role for science journalists in societal, scientific and political debates.