Tag: science journalists

  • Travel grants for Big Science Business Forum 2018

    The organisers of Europe’s first Big Science Business Forum 2018 (BSBF2018) invite journalists from Europe to apply for a media travel grant. The grants cover travel and accommodation up to 750 euro during BSBF2018.  The forum takes place in Copenhagen 26-28 February 2018. Deadline for applications is January 26. Nine of Europe’s largest Big Science organisations…

  • Study trip to Lund

    EUSJA has confirmed for its members the study trip to the European Spallation Source (ESS) from April 3 to 5. ESS is a multi-disciplinary research facility based on the world’s most powerful neutron source, now under construction in Lund, Sweden. ESS will enable unprecedented world leading research using neutrons, providing new scientific opportunities in a wide…

  • 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…

  • Who’s afraid of science journalists? Portugal’s scientists step into journalists’ shoes

    By Vera Novais, Observador  The “Who’s afraid of journalists?” session at SciComPT2017 meeting, in Portugal, explored the tricky relationship between journalists, scientists and press officers by having them role play each other’s jobs What would happen if you put a scientist into a newsroom, and a journalist into a research lab? They might just have…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Bringing Pain Relief…

    We have got 10 invitations for EUSJA members to attend the Congress of the European Pain Federation (EFIC) “Pain in Europe”. EUSJA journalists were invited to this important scientific event twice – in 2013 to Florence and in 2015 to Vienna. This year EFIC will hold its Pain in Europe conference titled “Bringing Pain Relief to All…

  • A Better Future for Europe

    EUSJA has 8 grants for its members to attend European Health Forum Gastein and to meet outstanding scientists and policy makers. It is a wonderful place for journalists who cover medicine and life sciences. This year will be the anniversary: the 20-th EHFG will be organized in Bad Gastein from 4 to 6 October with…

  • 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…