Newsletter - May 2007
WELCOME TO ESOF2008 FIRST NEWSLETTER
EuroScience Open Forums provide the only Europe-wide opportunity for everyone working in or with an interested in research to meet and debate the direction that European research is taking or the issues that research is raising.
WHAT IS ESOF? - http://www.esof2008.org
EuroScience Open Forum 2008 in Barcelona is organised by Euroscience and hosted by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation/ Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRI). ESOF2008 will be the third Open Forum.
ESOFs are held every second year, hosted by major science cities in Europe - Stockholm in 2004 and Munich in 2006. The Forums are interdisciplinary meetings of scientists, young researchers, politicians, policy-makers, innovators, business people, media and communicators. ESOF typically features over 70 scientific sessions in topics ranging from nanosciences to ethics, natural disasters to tissue engineering, and international security to the human mind.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS - ANSWER THE CALL BEFORE THE 30th OF JUNE!
Click here to submit a proposal.
Click here to see the invitation letter.
You are invited to submit proposals to present leading scientific and technology issues and/or to organise dynamic public outreach activities. The Call for Proposals to submit ideas for participation in the Scientific Programme is open to researchers from all disciplines, public and private institutions, journalists and communicators, policy-makers, and businesses. The core of this programme will consist of scientific sessions mainly organised in ten Scientific Themes. In addition to their scientific content, these sessions will stimulate debate on how science, technology and the humanities impact on society and the economy. A Career Programme in partnership with Nature Jobs will present opportunities open to young and mid-career researchers. Proposals that bring together diverse members of Europe's science community are particularly encouraged.
The ESOF2008 Outreach Activities Programme is also open for proposals that will engage the imagination of citizens through shows, displays and presentations that bring science to life in the fields of culture, sports and leisure. An Exhibition will give commercial, scientific and academic partners the chance to present themselves and their work to a large public.
The ten themes are:
- The human mind and behaviour
- The very big and the very small
- Maintaining an open society through science
- Engineering the body
- What should we eat and how should we look like?
- Enhancing energy security, fighting global warming
- Science policy
- Science and art
- Demography in an ageing Europe
- Screening: burdens and benefits
Prize-winning researchers and trend-setting innovators will participate as speakers in the Scientific Programme. The following have confirmed their attendance to date.
Aaron Ciechanover - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 more info ...
Richard J. Roberts - Nobel Prize in Phisiology or Medicine 1993 more info ...
Marcus du Sautoy - Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society 2001 more info ...
ESOF FOUNDER - EUROSCIENCE
http://www.euroscience.org
Euroscience was founded in 1997 as a 'grassroots' movement open to research professionals, science administrators, policy makers, teachers, PhD students, post-docs, engineers, industrialists, and citizens interested in science and technology and its links with society. It represents European scientists in all disciplines in the public sector, universities, research institutes as well as business and industry. Euroscience is based in Strasbourg and has over 2000 members across 40 European countries.
Membership is open to anyone interested in European research. There's further information at here.
As someone involved in the European research community, you can contribute to the success of this important event by promoting ESOF2008 through your institution, colleagues, students, network of contacts and friends. Please feel free to forward this email and ask them to register online in order to become members of the ESOF community. You can register using this link
You are welcome to include information about ESOF2008 in your newsletter, to post a banner on your website and to organise presentations with or without the help of our corporate PowerPoint presentation.
Carl Johan Sundberg
Karolinska Institutet
Chair, Communication Committee
Email carl.j.sundberg@ki.se
Jordi Mas
Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació
ESOF2008 Project team leader
Email jordi.mas@fcri.es
Legal notice
In compliance with the contents of article 5 of the Organic Law 15/1999, of 13 December concerning the Protection of Personal Data (hereinafter 'LOPD'), La Fundació Catalana per a la recerca i la innovació (hereinafter, FCRI) with NIF G-58265784 and settled in Barcelona, Passeig LLuís Companys, 23, register under number 281 of the Registre de Fundacions de la Generalitat de Catalunya, would like to inform you that your personal data will be kept in a file under the responsibility of FCRI. You may exercise your right of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition to the handling of your personal data, according to the terms and conditions provided in the LOPD. by sending an email to info@esof2008.org or by postal mail to the addess of FUNDACIÓ CATALANA PER A LA RECERCA I LA INNOVACIÓ
The purpose of collecting your personal data is to promote ESOF and its main objective of providing an open forum for debate and communication within the science community of Europe and the world