The European Meeting of Science Journalism (ECSJ2022) has opened the contact for vacation grants to show up at the convention that will get place in Leiden 10-13 July 2022 (https://ecsj2022.eu) in conjunction with ESOF2022.
The vacation grants are funded by EurekAlert!, Elsevier and the European Federation for Science Journalism (EFSJ) many thanks to a donation from a few among its founding associations – the Swiss SASJ, the French AJSPI and the Italian SWIM – who organised the incredibly productive World Conference of Science Journalists WCSJ2019 in Lausanne via the Alpine Consortium.
“We are organizing a meeting in human being, with a full of all over 250 to 300 members, and we are very grateful to the European Federation and our other supporters, Eurekalert! and Elsevier for their generosity”, mentioned Krijn Soeteman, president of the Dutch association of science journalists VWN, who also heads the organising committee of ECSJ2022. “We hope to have at minimum 25 journey grants that will be assigned to science journalists by means of a aggressive contact”.
The topic of the meeting is Investigating Science, and the initial keynote speaker introduced is Dutch scientist and qualified of scientific integrity Elisabeth Bik, who has been exposing numerous cases of picture manipulation and fraud in scientific publications in current decades.
Science journalists who function in a European place (like all countries on the European continent) can use for a grant of up to 500 euro (for registration charge, vacation and accommodation) through the conference web-site. The recommendations are available in the Grant Software webpage (https://ecsj2022.eu/grants/) .
An international judging panel will give precedence to varied voices, and all those in fiscal need to have. Journalists who have other resources of funding, these kinds of as their employer’s journey budgets, are invited to pursue people 1st.
Deadline for journey grant programs is 15 May well 2022, 23:59 CET. Panel evaluation is scheduled between 16 and 22 May perhaps, applicants are envisioned to be notified on 23 Could 2022.
Anyone who could possibly contemplate featuring vacation and lodging grants is warmly invited to get in touch with us or check out the joined supporters outline on the Partnerships web page (https://ecsj2022.eu/sponsors/).
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The Association for Science Journalism and Conversation Netherlands (VWN), has organised quite a few conferences on science journalism in The Netherlands and is host to the ECSJ2022 meeting in Leiden.
The European Federation for Science Journalism is a federation of European science journalism associations. The EFSJ has seven founding users. Their objective is to advertise large high quality science journalism in Europe. They are co-organising the ECSJ2022 in Leiden.
The EuroScience Open Forum is the biennial pan-European assembly focused to scientific investigation and innovation. Throughout the forum, top scientists, younger researchers, organization people, policymakers, science communicators and the basic public focus on discoveries and debate the direction that research is having in the sciences, humanities and social sciences.
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