Call for Nominations: 2012 Best Cancer Reporter Award

The European School of Oncology (ESO) is seeking nominations for its annual Best Cancer Reporter Award which honours excellence in cancer journalism. The Award – which has a top prize of €10,000 – is presented each year to a professional journalist who has made an outstanding contribution to enhancing public understanding about cancer.

The 2012 course of the Erice International School of Science Journalism and Communication - on the multifaceted issue of Nanotechnologies - will be in the beginning of August.

Twenty-four fellowships covering tuition fees, travel and lodging will be available for science journalists, communicators and students from EU countries.

You will find all the info at http://ericescijc.wordpress.com/

Nanotechnologies: the new challenge!

Summer program: August 1 – 4, 2012

International School of Science Journalism and Communication

Global Energy Prize’s International Media Competition Opens

Energy of Word Award for best coverage of energy related issues is launched to journalists worldwide

Svenska föreningen För Vetenskapsjournalistik SFVJ

Kallelse till årsmöte 2012

Tid: Onsdag 29 februari 2012 kl. 18.00

Plats: Sveriges Radio

Dagordning

1 Val av mötesordförande, mötessekreterare och två justeringsmän tillika rösträknare

2 Fråga om mötet blivit behörigen utlyst

3 Dagordningen godkänns

4 Verksamhetsberättelse (presenteras vid årsmötet)

5 Revisionsrapport

6 Ansvarsfrihet för avgående styrelsen

7 Medlemsavgift

8 Propositioner och ev. motioner

"How Computer Science and Materials Science are improving the world”.

The department of Materials Science and Engineering of Saarland University has close connections to the Material Engineering Center Saarland, a Steinbeis Research Center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing, the Leibniz Institute for New Materials and some other reasearch centers, thus the journalists will get the information also from these institues. Please find enclosed the invitation from the University and a preliminary programme.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is offering fellowships for journalists to report on ongoing research in the geosciences. Successful applicants will receive up to €5k to cover expenses related to their projects, including following scientists on location.

For further info see:

http://www.egu.eu/home/press-release-egu-geosciences-communications-fell...

Det senaste numret av Eusjas nyhetsbrev Eusjanews kan hämtas och läsas på Eusjas website http://www.eusja.org/

From the contents:
· Eusja president Hajo Neubert on the Benidorm study trip fiasco
· Risks and bioethics at Doha
· Made by young people
· Moscow's science festival
· Salmonella at the Doha conference
· Fighting the assault on science in America
· An annual award for science journalism
· The earthquake in l’Alquila in the media
· A strange tree in Qatar p10
· Lord of the Skies

EUSJA is organising for its members a study trip to Heidelberg 18 to 20 of July 2011 to see 2 famous research institutes – DKFZ (German Cancer Research Centre) and EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

See the EUSJA web page for the updated programme
http://www.eusja.org/?p=110

Eusja rules apply, i e the journalists have to pay for their trip to and from Frankfurt. The accomodation, meal, transfers inside the country and cultural programme will be covered by the organizers.

World Conference of Science Journalists – WCSJ – som skulle hållits i Kairo i juni flyttar till Qatars huvudstad Doha, meddelar styrelsen för World Federation of Science Journalists. Den 27–29 juni 2011 hålls konferensen.
Läs mer på WFSJs webbsajt http://www.wfsj.org