欧州オープンサイエンスフォーラム（ESOF2008)アナウンス

＃欧州オープンサイエンスフォーラム（ESOF2008)のアナウンス

Newsletter - November 2007

WELCOME TO ESOF2008’S FIFTH NEWSLETTER

EuroScience Open Forums provide the only Europe-wide opportunity for everyone working in or with an interest in research to meet and debate the direction that European research is taking, and the issues that research raises.

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PROGRAMME UPDATE: WORLD-CLASS SPEAKERS CONFIRMED

The Programme Team are pleased to announce that the final programme is nearly completed and will be launched in January. Confirmed speakers include the cosmology expert Professor Gerry Gilmore, Professor Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government; Professor Dr James Vaupel, Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; and Ronald Schenkel, director of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

We will launch the programme and the official opening of ESOF2008 registration in the new year. For more information about the programme, contact: anais.lecorvec@esof2008.org or tiziana.dellaragione@esof2008.org.

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EUROSCIENCE OPEN FORUM – AN ARENA FOR DIALOGUE AND INFLUENCE
by Carl Johan Sundberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden & ESOF2008 Communication Committee chair

Euroscience was founded in 1997 in order to:

Provide an open forum for debate on science and technology
Strengthen the links between science and society
Contribute to the creation of an integrated space for science and technology in Europe
Influence science and technology policies

To achieve these goals, Françoise Praderie and Robert Klapisch of the Euroscience Governing board suggested that a joint event with AAAS should be organised regularly. For various reasons this did not happen. In December of 1999 I proposed that Euroscience should organise a large, pan-European, inter-disciplinary, recurrent meeting to be first held in Stockholm 2004. The intention was to attract researchers and students from the academic world, industrialists, politicians and policy makers, journalists, teachers and the public to one meeting place. Support for the meeting was envisaged to come from foundations, grant organisations, companies and the European Commission. To retain the independence of the meeting, the goal was to be supported by many and dominated by none.

After four years of hard work to attract partners, funders, set up a programme and market the event, ESOF2004 took place in August 2004. It attracted some 1800 people from Europe and beyond including scientists, policy makers, industry and 350 journalists. Two years later, ESOF2006 was organised in Munich with over 2200 participants. The media impact around ESOF2004 and ESOF2006 was massive with close to 1000 news items in national and international media.

Read more: here

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TEN YEARS OF EUROSCIENCE: HISTORY AND FUTURE

Euroscience recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary (see newsletter #4). The commerative publication, ‘Euroscience next objective : 100 years. Reflections after the first 10 years’ details contributions from some of the most famous founders of Euroscience. Their articles illustrate the many aspects of Euroscience¹s activities from its origin to the present as well as prospects for the future.

Copies are available free of charge from the Euroscience Office: office@euroscience.ws

See also: http://www.euroscience.org/UEVENTS/ES10thAnniversary.htm.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE JOURNALISM IN EUROPE
by István Palugyai, Népszabadság, Hungary & ESOF2008 Communication Committee member.

Europe is behind America not only in terms of technological competitiveness, but also in the race of obtaining scientific information. Unfortunately there is a gap between the Lisbon Goals and the necessary conditions to achieve them.

The Eurobarometer ‘Europeans, Science and Technology’ survey in 2005 found that the level of scientific knowledge among Europeans is low compared to politics or sport, despite Europeans showing an interest in science. They are poorly informed about new inventions and technologies as well new scientific discoveries. Moreover 40% of Europeans claim to hardly ever or never read articles on science in newspapers, magazines or on the internet.

Therefore Europe should ‘catch up’. For improving this situation we should have to consider the media, which is the main information source concerning science. In the media we have to recognise the efforts of science journalists and science journalism.

One interpretation of the Eurobarometer results could be that there is confusion in science journalism practices and a growing tension between traditional reporting and new media.

What type of science journalists do the editors of specialist or non-specialist press, of television or of radio want?

Read more: here

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A MONTH IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENCE JOURNALISTS
by Jean-Marc Fleury WFSJ Executive Director and Bell Globemedia Chair in Science Journalism, Université Laval (Québec)

SjCOOP project mentor Armand Faye with mentees. From left to right: Makeba Tchibozo (Benin), Armand Faye (Senegal), Aimable Twahirwa (Rwanda), and David Ilunga (Democratic Republic of Congo)
In Budapest, on 10 November 2007, the Board of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) met in Budapest, final day of the 2007 World Science Forum.

The previous day, its President Pallab Ghosh, science journalist at BBC, chaired a session that included Parliamentarians from Egypt, Germany, Iran and Mexico. On the same day, WFSJ board members Wilson da Silva (Australia), Jia Hepeng (China), Diran Onifade (Nigeria), Nadia El-Awady (Egypt), and Valeria Roman (Argentina) spoke at another session about the importance for Parliamentarians deciding Science and Technology issues and budgets to be accessible and open to science journalists.

With several Board members in Budapest, WFSJ took the opportunity to call a meeting of the team managing its flagship $2M SjCOOP project, a two-year mentoring scheme linking 15 experienced science journalists with 60 apprentice science journalists throughout Africa and the Middle East.

As soon as the SjCOOP team meeting finished, WFSJ Vice-President Diran Onifade flew to Dakar (Senegal) where he addressed representatives of the African Science Academies from Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and South Africa.

Simultaneously, Valeria Roman, WFSJ Board Member and science journalist with Clarin (Buenos Aires), flew to Madrid to elicit support for an eventual SjCOOP project in Latin America. WFSJ hopes to launch the Latin American SjCOOP during the upcoming July 2008 European Science Open Forum (ESOF), in Barcelona.

For more details on the World Federation of Science Journalists, SjCOOP, publications, and its other activities, visit www.wfsj.org or send an email to info@wfsj.org.

Read more: here

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HELP PROMOTE ESOF2008

As someone involved in the 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.

For more information, contact: jaume.urgell@esof2008.org.

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LINK TO PREVIOUS ESOF2008 NEWSLETTERS

Newsletter #1 May '07
Newsletter #2 June '07
Newsletter #3 September '07
Newsletter #4 October '07

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ESOF2008 CONTACTS

Communication and Promotion enquiries:

Isabelle Bonhoure
ESOF2008 Communication and Promotion Officer
Email isabelle.bonhoure@esof2008.org
Phone +34 932688798

Jaume Urgell
ESOF2008 Director of Marketing, Communication and Media
Email jaume.urgell@esof2008.org
Phone +34 932687707

Carl Johan Sundberg
Karolinska Institutet - Chair, Communication Committee
Email carl.j.sundberg@ki.se

Media enquiries:

Laura Miles
AlphaGalileo Foundation – ESOF2008 Media Partner Operations Director
Email: laura.miles@alphagalileo.org
Phone: +44 7813 798834

Sponsorship enquiries:

Elisabet Guillemat
Email: elisabet.guillemat@esof2008.org
Phone +34 932687707

Technical secretariat (registration, exhibition):

Viajes Iberia Congresos
Email: esof2008@viajesiberia.com
Phone: +34 93 510 10 05

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