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For full details please visit the conference website.
Please note: All plenary sessions will be streamed live over the web. You can also submit questions via EMAIL to: info@biodiversityknowledge.eu, or by TWITTER: using #biodiversityNOK
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There is a call for papers: deadline 20 November 2011.
The purpose of the conference is to provide a solutions-based forum and to exchange information regarding research activities and plans for studying the relationship between climate and environment changes and human activities with specific focuse on water related matters. Attendees will include scientists, engineers, managers, legislators, NGO representatives and policy makers involved in water, climate and environment related matters.
BALWOIS 2012 is a platform for creating partnerships in solving water scarcity problems, floods, droughts, environmental degradation and risk affecting different regions by facilitating the sharing of experiences through the presentation of scientific and technical papers and posters on planning research and development activities.
BALWOIS 2012 is organized under the patronage of Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of Republic of Macedonia and of the French Embassy in Skopje. BALWOIS 2012 is organized by the Balkan Institute for Water and Environment - IB2E www.ib2e.org - , the Macedonian Association of Meteorology METEO MAK, and Faculty of Civil Engineering (Sts. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje).
BALWOIS is supported by Ministry of Ecology of France, French Embassy in Macedonia, International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS/IUGG), European Meteorologial Society (EMS) and private companies.
For details, see the conference website.
]]>Using international examples, architects, exhibition designers, curators, scientists, artists and journalists will present the trends and perspectives that are important for the natural history museums worldwide and for Senckenberg in planning its building extension in Frankfurt am Main.
The theme for the opening evening and for the first day is the media. Film, radio and television, the press, photography and specialist journals, exhibitions, science centres and museums, blogs and festivals all offer a wide range of media and formats to communicate new findings, theories and research questions, discuss research results, and intervene in scientific arguments on issues of social sustainability. Day Two focues on scenography and architecture.
Science today is a source of ideas for entertainment shows and opens up new ways of presenting both the microcosm and the macrocosm. The scientific community is looking for funding and is developing is own celebrities system. New communication strategies change demands and expectations: the power of pictures is on the increase, findings are related to people, campaigns dictate topics while events promote them, and buzzwords and definitions covering issues ranging from biodiversity to forest dieback are in the news. A growing number of people are participating in all of this and are now receiving access to what was formerly a closed world – they have even begun to participate in the evaluation of data (citizen science).
In the competition for attention and participation, the media play a key role. Senckenberg wants to present effective mechanisms and best practice examples, shine the light on communication strategies along the spectrum between alarmism, voicing of concern and forecasting, and highlight the models used in the fight for quality and quotas. How do the media work in an age of the knowledge society and alluring user interfaces? Where are we headed with convergence of topics, disciplines and discourses that build a bridge between natural sciences and the humanities, technology and the arts?
Senckenberg museum invites stakeholders from this new world of knowledge to come to the museu, to tell them how things work and what the future holds. Senckenberg has been working at popularising science for almost 200 years. Exhibit Nature & Explain Science is designed to reflect the state of the art in the science world.
Senckenberg museum hopes you will tell us your views and share your insights on new opportunities in this regard. In times of rapid structural change within the media, the museum can serve as a social meeting place in which to take key future-focused issues to task. A place in which researchers, communicators, experts and laypeople can gather. Natural history museums are the perfect ‘opera houses’ for a new culture of scientific discourse. Exhibit Nature & Explain Science is intended as the dress rehearsal for future performances.
Day Two focuses on scenography and architecture. Senckenberg’s expansion plans for its Frankfurt premises foster notions of new knowledge spaces and contemporary space use. How can system relationships and the development dynamics of natural systems be presented and made tangible? What should a museum complex look like if it is to serve as an opera house of public discourse on science? Day Two looks at the shell that encompasses the contents from Day One.
More information: http://future.senckenberg.de
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Evening discussions:
This international conference will focus on the sustainable management of the world's rivers, especially European ones. It will concentrate on state of the art management strategies and lessons learned from individual case studies.
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In addition to a wide range of session topics for contributed talks, there will be two special sessions with invited talks:
There will also be pre-conference workshops within the area of ecological statistics taking place 30 June to 3 July. Two of these will be held at Finse Alpine Research Center in the Hardangervidda mountain plateau and the remaining two at the conference venue, Sundvolden Hotel.
Abstracts for contributed talks and poster presentations are welcome. Some travel grants are available (see link to website below).
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 20 JANUARY 2012.
Further information about the conference, workshops and abstract submission can be found at the conference website (link below).
A science conference like no other, ESOF 2012 is unique in representing the largest convergence of the Sciences, Humanities and Culture in Europe in 2012. It is Europe’s largest, general science meeting and is held in a leading Europe city every two years. The first meeting was held in Stockholm in 2004, followed by Munich (2006), Barcelona (2008) and Turin (2010).
This interdisciplinary, pan-European meeting, held under the auspices of Euroscience, aims to:
ESOF incorporates a number of distinct strands of activity:
The event is unique in the diversity of delegates who attend: It attracts top researchers from the natural sciences and the social sciences; business leaders; senior EU and government officials; and international scientific media. They come to discuss the best of European science and to address all of the current major global scientific challenges, including Energy, Climate Change, Food and Health.
The Programme will be published at http://esof2012.org/programme/.
Note: the information below is copied from an e-mail received from the ESOF2012 organisers.
ESOF provides young researchers with a unique opportunity to interact with leading scientists from various scientific fields. With up to 1,000 young researchers from across Europe and beyond, ESOF2012 will give them the unique opportunity to expand their networks of international contacts and to establish important links with potential collaborators.
Various organisations, including the Swiss Embassy in Ireland, the Swedish Research Council (VR), the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) offer travel grants to help young researchers who wish to attend ESOF2012. See the Euroscience website for more information on the current open calls.
The CALL for Early-Stage Researcher (ESR) travel grants to ESOF2012 is now OPEN.
The Swiss Embassy in Ireland and the Swedish Research Council in collaboration with Euroscience have opened a call for young researchers.
Please be aware of the following criteria:
To submit an application, please follow the link to: http://www.esof.eu/hub/user_session/new
Sign into the ESOF database and click on “Apply for a Scholarship” at the bottom of your profile page. Follow the application procedure.
Special note for Swiss and Switzerland based ESR – If you are a Swiss national or an ESR living and working in Switzerland please select the “ESOF2012 Swiss Early-Stage Researcher” in the online application! Your application will fall under Swiss travel grants.
When submitting the application form for travel grants, you agree to the full acceptance of the rules and to the decision taken by the Selection Committee.
The deadline for applications for travel grants is Thursday 10th May 2012.
The eligibility criteria will be based on the curriculum assessment and the applicant’s motivation statement in attending ESOF2012.
A decision is taken by the Selection Committee, which is appointed by Euroscience or by the respective national organisation.
The Selection Committee will consist of at least one representative from Euroscience, Eurodoc and the MCFA fellowship association.
The decision will be communicated by email and the winners will be announced on the following websites www.esof.eu and www.euroscience.org.
For any further information, please contact the Euroscience Office at office@euroscience.org, or by telephone +33 (0)3 88 24 11 50.
]]>Green infrastructure links natural, semi-natural and urban features, areas and spaces together. It provides both ecological as well as societal well being, and resilience against dramatic changes. It provides us with cultural ecosystem services such as possibilities for recreation, inspiration, learning and spiritual gains. But where can we find green infrastructure that supports sustainability and maintains its cultural ecosystem services? Can energy production from forests be sustainable and support recreational purposes? Which green infrastructure tolerates climate change and helps to forward positive transformations to cultural ecosystem services?
Through contributions debate from different disciplinary angles, this session will introduce novel ways of conceptualising the nature-human relationship by linking ecological theories of sustainability into everyday life of human societies. The session elucidates the future´s orientation of conservation and sustainability research and provides food for thought to the policy forum on the governance of European green infrastructure.
The speakers will be:
More information about ESOF 2012, which takes place from 11-15 July, can be found here: http://esof2012.org/
]]>One of the courses on offer is BIO1: Data Documentation in Biological Research, which takes place from 20-24 August. The teachers for this course will be Nicolas Bertrand (from ALTER-Net partner CEH) and Pirjo Kuitunen from Lake Päijänne LTER. The course is especially for researchers producing the data and will teach good practices for data documentation,as well as introducing some suitable software tools.
More information on the course and how to apply is available here.
The deadline for applications is 30th April 2012.
[Note the full list of courses offered during the Summer School can be found here: https://www.jyu.fi/science/muut_yksikot/summerschool/en]
]]>Interaction and effective communication between researchers, policy makers, conservation practitioners and resource users is fundamental to the success of conservation endeavours. The organisers especially welcome students and early career researchers. The organisers invite all those involved in conservation to participate in the ECCB2012 which will be held at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) from 28 August to 1 September 2012.
For more information: http://eccb2012.org/
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There is a call for papers with a deadline of 10 February 2012.
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