EPS General Meeting
The 15th general meeting of the European Physical Society will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, on 27 October 2011. The meeting, which will begin at 17.30, will take place in the Regional Centre for Business Tourism.
The general meeting is open to all European Physical Society members. The agenda will include reports from the president, the secretary, and the treasurer.
NMP publishes final 2012 work programme
The 7th Framework Programme for EU Research’s (FP7) Industrial Technologies programme – commonly referred to as NMP
For more information, please visit the European Commission website.
EPS to decide on society’s next president-elect
The next president-elect of the EPS will be voted in during the 2012 EPS Council meeting, on 30-31 March next year. The Executive Committee has appointed a search committee, which will be chaired by the current EPS vice-president, Maciej Kolwas.
The other members of the search committee will be Ove Poulsen and Michèle Leduc.
For more information, please write to Maciej Kolwas.
European Commission Prize for Women Innovators
A Prize for Women Innovators has been launched by the European Commission at the end of last month. The competition – which aims to highlight the successes of three women who have brought outstanding innovations to the market – is hoped will raise public awareness of the need for more innovation, and for more female entrepreneurs.
There are three cash prizes available to win – 100,000, 50,000 and 25,000 Euros respectively – which will be presented at an award ceremony during the European Commission’s Innovation Convention on 5 December this year…
Horizon 2020 research programme to start 2014
“Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation” will come into force on 1 January 2014, the European Commission has announced. Horizon 2020 – the name of which was selected by a vote in June this year – will replace the FP7 programme when it finishes at the end of 2013.
For more information, please visit the European Commission website.
Scientific information in the digital age consultation
The European Commission is planning to adopt a communication and recommendation, on the access to, and preservation of, digital scientific information. Input is being sought from interested parties, “to feed into the development of possible policy options to be considered”. The deadline for contributions is 9 September 2011.
The EPS will be replying to this consultation, and welcomes input from its members for the preparation of this response. Comments should be sent to the EPS by no later than 31 August 2011…
100 Years of Cosmic Particles
An international conference, with the theme of ‘100 Years of Cosmic Particles’, will be held during 1-5 May 2012, split between the two locations of Innsbruck University, in Tyrol, and ECHOPHYSICS, in Poellau, Styria.
The event, which is being jointly organized by Innsbruck University, ECHOPHYSICS and the Poellau Victor. F. Hess Society will form part of the worldwide celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Victor Francis Hess’ discovery of cosmic radiation.
The first part of the event, held in Innsbruck on 1-2 May, will focus on the knowledge gained, and advances made, in the 100…
HEPD elects new chair and secretary
The EPS High Energy Physics Division [HEPD] Board has elected Paris Sphicas, of the University of Athens, Greece, and CERN, Switzerland as the board’s next chair. Thomas Lohse, of Humbolt University, Berlin, is also being welcomed as the incoming secretary.
The HEPD would like to express its warmest thanks to the outgoing chair, Fabio Zwirner, for his hard work and dedication.
First European Gender Summit
The first European Gender Summit is being held in the SQUARE – Brussels Meeting Centre on 8-9 November 2011. The summit will provide an arena for the discussion of how gender is viewed in the culture of research and innovation, and what potential changes could be made in this field.
The summit will also see the publishing of the Public Consultation on the Future of Gender and Innovation in Europe – which is hoped will create a better understanding of how Europe might benefit from a more effective mainstreaming of the gender dimension in research, innovation and scientific systems…
EC announces 7 billion Euro boost for 2012 R&D
A 7 billion Euro boost for research and innovation for 2012 has been announced by the European Commission (EC) last month. The funding package – which will be the ECs largest yet – is anticipated to promote both growth and new jobs.
“Today, Europe is again showing its commitment to putting research and innovation at the top of the political agenda for growth and jobs,” said Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who announced the new funding boost. “EU-wide competition for these funds will bring Europe’s best researchers and innovators together to tackle the biggest issues of our time, such as energy, food security, climate change and our ageing population.” …
CERN Council looking forward to promising future
The excellent performance of the LHC – and the promise of five new Member States in the near future – were celebrated during the 159th meeting of the CERN Council at the end of last month.
On the 17 June this year the LHC reported a total delivery of one inverse femtobarn of data to the experiments – already meeting the target for the entirety of the 2011 run.
“A year ago, I thought the delivery of an inverse femtobarn in 2011 was an ambitious target,” said CERN Council…
Greek-German academy celebrates 50th anniversary
The Greek-German academy, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Ellinogermaniki Agogi, a private establishment, based in Pallini, Greece, which covers all stages of education from nursery to senior high school, is well known for its innovative efforts in the teaching of science.
The next milestone in this celebratory year will be their hosting of the next EDEN Open Classroom Conference, entitled ‘Never Waste a Crisis! – Inclusive Excellence, Innovative Technologies and Transformed Schools as Autonomous Learning Organisations’, on 27-29 October.
