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  • What‘s the Talk about Nanotechnology?

    Get free background knowledge for your competent reporting about “Benefits and Risks of Nanotechnology” during a free workshop for science journalists

    Nanotechnology is a rising topic for science journalists as the public is increasingly aware of ever new “nano” products entering the market. Are they dangerous? Are they safe? What is so interesting about “nano”? Science journalists need good facts and arguments in order to deliver balanced and guiding information for their audiences. Can scientists help to clarify things? What angles are important to cover in reporting nanotechnology? These are some of the questions which will be answered during 4-hours training workshop for science journalists on “Benefits and Risks of Nanotechnology” – free of charge. It will be held on 17th June 2015, 14.00-18.00 o´clock at Αmbasada Κrakowian, ul. Stolarska 6/9, 31-043 Kraków, Poland.

    The Workshop is organized by the European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations – EUSJA, under the EU funded project NanoDiode, which is a project for outreach and dialogue to support the effective governance of nanotechnologies. The aim of the workshop is to bring science journalists closer to nano-researchers in the fields of science, technology and governance. Experts will introduce Science journalists to nanotechnologies in order to put them into the position to better fulfill their role as critical moderators between researchers and their media audience. Experts will show the science behind nanotechnology. They will explain what can be done with nano particles in products for medicine, electronics, materials, or consumer goods. Of course it will be shown what is already on the market , what is in the pipeline, and what are the challenges for future developments. Time is also reserved for a critical review of nanotechnology governance.

    The topics:

    1. Introduction: Journalism, science and the public
    2. Science behind nanotechnology (Marek Szymonski, Professor, Head, Department of Physics of Nanostructures and Nanotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
    3. Applications of nanotechnology (Marek Przybylski, Professor, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow)
    4. Technology assessment, Folk Theories and Labelling (Arie Rip, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology in the School of Management and Governance of the University of Twente, Netherlands
    5. Legal frameworks around new and emerging technologies, for consumers, for industries (David Azoulay, Managing Attorney, Centre for Environmental Law, Geneva, Switzerland)

    Registrations: Please confirm your participation by sending email to Mr. Teguayco Pinto Cejas at teguayco@gmail.com.

    INFO

    What: Science Journalists Training Workshop on “Benefits and Risks of Nanotechnology”

    When: June 17, 2015, at 14.00-18.00 o’clock

    Where: Αmbasada Κrakowian, ul. Stolarska 6/9, 31-043 Kraków, Poland

    Language: English

    Fees: Free, registration recommended by May 31st at the later

    LINKS

    Ambasada Krakowian http://www.ambasadakrakowian.pl/

    NanoDiode project http://www.nanodiode.eu/

    EUSJA http://www.eusja.org/

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  • Deadline approaching for weeklong science immersion workshop

    Youtube-screen-299x151NARRAGANSETT, RI – Journalists seeking career-changing professional development on climate change science have until Friday, February 7, to apply for Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting’s 16th Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists: Climate Change in Coastal Ecosystems.  The workshop runs from June 1 through June 6 at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

    Metcalf Fellows roll up their sleeves for an intensive week with scientists and regulatory experts in the field, lab as well as informal discussions on scientific methods of culture.  Journalists learn how to interpret scientific publications and sharpen their investigative reporting skills as they explore some of the most important environmental issues of our time.  Reporters will leave the workshop with new story ideas, key sources, and a better understanding of climate change science and its impact on coastal ecosystems.

    The ten journalists selected to attend the workshop will:

    • Study the causes and consequences of ocean acidification through hands-on research;
    • Conduct a fisheries survey aboard the URI research vessel Cap’n Bert to identify the long-term impacts of climate change on commercially important fisheries;
    • Discuss projections for sea level rise and the latest policy approaches for coastal adaptation to climate change;
    • Attend lectures featuring top national researchers, policy makers and science communicators;
    • Enjoy off-deadline interactions with scientists and cultivate contacts for future reporting;
    • Gain skills and confidence to translate scientific publications for public audiences.

    Applications for the 2014 Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists must be postmarked or emailed by February 7, 2014. For more information and to apply, visit www.metcalf institute.org/training or click here.

    Contact:

    Karen Southern

    Director of Communications

    Metcalf Institute

    University of Rhode Island

    Graduate School of Oceanography

    218 South Ferry Road

    Narragansett, RI 02882

  • EUSJA’s «blood infusion» at the Helsinki conference – some materials from the workshop

    EUSJA’s «blood infusion» at the Helsinki conference – some materials from the workshop

    EUSJA workshop at the 2013 Helsinki World Conference
    of Science Journalists on «Blood Infusion»

    Wolfgang-introEUSJA is committed to raise the professional standards. At the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki, it ran a training workshop for some 30 colleagues from around the world.

    It addressed three major challenges of the job: investigation*, statistics, storytelling.

    The lecturers Hans van Maanen, Angela Posada-Swafford and Fabio Turone are all seasoned science journalists. Here you find their curricula & summaries, pix & interviews, in one word: the ESSENTIALS.

    They may serve as a guide and thanks to WCSJ 2013 for having enabled this!

    Wolfgang C. Goede, Session Organizer

    *) Watch new developments on Investigative Data Journalism -> 
    http://sz.de/1.1804584;
    https://www.eusja.org/train-investigative-skills-lee-hunters-story-based-inquiry-for-download;
    https://www.eusja.org/investigative-data-harvest-the-rise-of-the-new-woodwards-bernsteins/

    A few impressions from the presenters and some participants
    (7 short videos, you can skip from one to another
    – Apologies for the bad quality of the audio)

    Wolfgang C. Goede holds a master’s degree in political and communication science (LMU Munich: 1984) and a specialization in science journalism. He has served as an editor for Germany’s leading popular science magazine P.M. for 28 years. The resident of Munich is a board member of the German Association of Science Writers TELI and co-initiator of its Science Debate (wissenschaftsdebatte.de), co-founder of the World Federation of Science Journalists WFSJ and a member of the International Science Writers Association ISWA. Since 2012 Wolfgang has been the Honorary Secretary of the European Science Journalists EUSJA. He served as a member of the British Council’s Science Think Tank and has been the speaker and co-organizer of numerous journalistic workshops (ESOF, PCST, WCSJ). His engagement revolves around the state of the art of science journalism, its ethics and history, democratic claims and reality.