The Symposium 2013 of Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) and the Science Communicators Association of New Zealand (SCANZ) will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 21-23 February 2013. The Symposium is entitled: Disasters – communicating in the crisis and aftermath. It will cover a wide range of topics, including climate change, and…
On Thursday 29th and Friday 30th November 2012, Giuseppe Pellegrini (Observa) will attend the first consortium meeting of the European project INPROFOOD, held at the Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação in Porto (Portugal).
The Italian scenario workshop have been arranged on 23rd October 2012 in Rome, at the CRA institute, to highlight how research programmes can foster healthy and sustainable food innovation in the next twenty years. The workshop was organized through the international project INPROFOOD funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, DG Research…
On 13th November 2012, during the High Level Conference Ready for the Challenges of Tomorrow organized for the ten years of EFSA – European Food Safety Authority, Massimiano Bucchi will partecipate in the round table Can Science Work Harder to Support Policy Makers in Protecting Consumers?
In the video Four Questions about Scientific Communication, realized by EURAC in collaboration with Observa, four experts in science communication answer four seminal questions about the best way to communicate science to the public. How should we talk to the public? Should we just relate the facts? Are some topics too difficult? And when are…
On 13th November 2012, in occasion of its tenth anniversary, EFSA – European Food Safety Authority holds the High Level Conference Ready for the Challenges of Tomorrow in collaboration with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO). Among the speakers Marit Paulsen and José Bové (Vice-Chairs of the European Parliament’s Agriculture…
The international seminar Young people and science was held in Brasilia (Brazil) from 30th October to 4th November, 2012. The seminar, organized by the Federal University of São Paulo and Observa Science in Society, involved Italian and Brazilian researchers and teachers. Nelio Bizzo (University of São Paulo) was the coordinator of the seminar, which was…
The seminar Towards sustainable food research. Early results from European project INPROFOOD will be held on Monday, 10 December, 2012, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., at the Centrale del Latte, Vicenza, with the participation of Dr. Enrico Novelli (Department of Public Health, Comparative Pathology and Veterinary Hygiene – University of Padova). The seminar will be coordinated by Giuseppe…