RELATE project at the Rome Sea Expo 2011

RELATE is the subject of a round table discussion of Pelagos – Sea Heritage Exhibition, now in its 13th edition, from February 19th to 27th 2011, within the Big Blue – Rome Sea and Nautical Expo.
The protagonist of the event is the sea itself, with an exhibition area in which communication and entertainment events will be held.  RELATE is invited in consideration of the great importance that this year edition as well is addressing to communication and scientific communication and it will be presented as best practice in science communication with a special focus on energy topics.

The 25th of February, at 11, in the central Area of Pavillion 11 – PELAGOS, Rome Expo, the coordinator of the project, Ms Hinano Spreafico will talk about RELATE together with Ms. Fabiola Falconieri and Mr Massimo Izzi from ENEA.

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ReLaTe project FINAL CONFERENCE: Bridging the gap between science and journalism

The Final Conference of ReLaTe project took place the 28^th of January 2011 in Brussels.

The workshop was an occasion to gather EU Commission representatives, European media experts,  the research laboratories and some of the students who participated in the initiative.

During the Conference the RELATE Assessment Report, prepared by the project partners, was presented and a discussion about future similar initiatives and their sustainability was launched.

The workshop also aimed at enhancing a debate comparing experiences done in ReLaTe project with other projects, with the final scope of improving the communication of European research and more in general the media-scientists dialogue.

Two best young journalists were awarded and we can finally announce the winners: Mr. Mico Tatalovic, from Croatia and Viktorija Rinkeviciute, from Lithuania. Our congratulations to both of them!

The final conference was held in Scotland House, in Place Schuman 6, 8^th floor, Brussels (Belgium).

Relate Final Conference – programme

Latest articles published by ReLaTe participants

Chiara Veronesi, who spent one week in Bilkent University labs in Ankara (Turkey) has succesfully published an article in the on line science news platform Galileo. Il Giornale di Scienza. Click here to read the article.

The on line magazine Tendencias Tecnológicas has published the article from Yolanda Alamillo, young journalist who visited ENEA labs. Click here to read the article.

The article of Valentin Todorov has been published on the Bulgarian media Novi Iskar online, a local and regional e-media, which is the most visited information web site in the town of Novi Iskar,  an integral part of the capital of Bulgaria. Click here for the ful version of the article.

The same article, but in its extended version, named The science is helping the EU to restore its architectural heritage, was also succesfully published on the media Novinar.net. Click here for the extended version of the article.

Ecomagazin has published the article of Daniela Bularda named The pathologies, better identified using brain signals. Daniela, who participated in the third training session of the Relate project, spent one week in the research laboratories of the Universitá di Bologna (Italy). Click here for the full version of the article

Antonia Ceballos published on the scientific news platform eCiencia, after having spent a training week at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) in Rome (Italy). The article, named The photovoltaic can provide the energetic self- sufficiency, shows what the work at ENEA photovoltaic’s lab is and to present the photovoltaic like a solution for the energetic self-sufficiency. Click here for the full version of the article

Le Scienze publishes the  article of  Caterina Ferrara, Also the birds dye themselves. Ferrara, from Italy,  spent one training week at Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), in Spain and participate in the research on Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology about how the Phoenicopterus roseus to intensify the color of the feathers applies on these the carotenoids, pigments that it produces through a gland called the “uropigio”, above the tail. Click here to read the article

The article of  Esperanza García Molina, Periodistas en el laboratorio: el experimento, has been published by the scientific news platform Asociación Española de Comunicación Científica. Click here to read the article

Andrada Fiscutean’s article appeared on 3^rd December 2010 on Descopera about nanosurgery, Laser nanosurgery, scars of only 0.0003 mm. With the latest generation of microscopes and the laser beams, the surgeons will manage to perform surgery with incisions of only 0.0003 mm. Article

The article Acidic seas threaten coral reefs of Milo Tatalovic, has been published by the science journalism magazine Cosmos and focuses on how corals will be affected by the carbon dioxide with reference to the research run by scientists in the field of volcanic craters emerged in the Mediterranean Sea. Click here for the extended version of the article

Luciana Grosu, spent a training week at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic at the Bilkent University, in Ankara (Turkey) and her article “Cancer research-a long way to go” was published on the science magazine Stiinta. Click here for the extended version of the article

The same article was published in English in New Science Journalism platform. Article

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory  offers a paid internship for young journalists

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory, based in Heidelberg, Germany, is seeking an intern to join the European journal for science teachers, Science in School.  The objective of the initiative is to enrich the journalists skills by gaining practical experience in the field of science publishing.

Intership at Science School

ReLaTe project in the IX National Congress on Science Communication

ReLaTe project coordinator, Hinano Spreafico has been invited together with ENEA partner, Ms. Fabiola Falconieri, to present the ReLaTe proejct experience at the IX National Congress on Science Communication on the 25^th November 2010 in Trieste (Italy).

The MAPPE event, took place from November 23^rd to 27^th and was organised by the SISSA and IDIS - Citta della Scienza, to contribute to the relation between science and media and in particular on science communication. Link to the Congress programme – http://www.mappetrieste.it/cms/convegno

Succesful publication for two of the ReLaTe students’ articles

The article of  Smitha Mundasad, who participated in the second training session of the ReLaTe project, has been published by the science news website The Naked Scientists: Science Radio & Science Podcasts.

Smitha spent a training week at the Bilkent Nanotechnology Research Center at the Bilkent University, set in Ankara (Turkey). The article tackles the application of the Light emitting diodes (LEDs) technology on bulbs, in order to improve the quality of light through the use of nanocrystals, which provides energy efficiency  on bulbs.

Click here for the extended version of the article

Jana Witt has succesfully published her article, named Swarmanoids to the rescue, in the September/ October issue of  the American magazine Robot. Jana participated in the second training session of the Relate project, spending one week in the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne.

Click here for the full version of the article

Discovering the planet Science

31 young journalists ready to participate in the third and last session of the ReLaTe project: 8 laboratories from 7 different European countries will host journalists during the month of November 2010.

The welcome laboratories in this final session are the Chemistry and Genetics Lab from Bilkent University (Turkey); the Laboratory for Materials Science from L’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Laussane (Switzerland); the Education and Public Outreach Department from the European Southern Observatory (Munich, Germany); the Institute of Photonic Sciences from Bardelona (Spain); the Branchyterapy Lab; the LIM -MOD Lab, the Cristalline Silicon PV and the Laser Spectroscopy of Functional Materials Lab from the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development in Rome; the Astronomy Haus from the Max Plank  Institute for Astronomy (Heidelberg; Germany); the Estación Biológica de Doñana (Huelva – Seville, Spain); the Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Systems, the Department or Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technologies and the Department of Marine Science from the University of Bologna (Italy).

The IX Conference on Science Communication: a showcase for ReLaTe project

The Economist published one of the ReLaTe students’ article

ReLaTe partners congratulate Tiffany Stecker for the succesful publication of her article, appeared on 9th August 2010 on The Economist.

The article, on the EU-funded TyGRe project, concerns a new way of recycling old tyres and  has been written after the  training week  Tiffany has spent at Tubitak Marmara Research Centre in Turkey, one of the project partner of both the TyGRe and ReLaTe project.

Click here for the extended version of the article

A new success for  ReLaTe: another article published!

On the 8th of  July 2010,  Elena Roda’s article on the “Electronic Nose” as been published on the website La Scienza in rete.

Elena had the opportunity to discover this research topic during her training at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique.

RELATE partners congratulate her and hope that other participants can soon experiece this success!

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Application campaign is now closed. We thank  all of the applicants for the interest showed in our project. Selected candidates will be informed by the end of September 2010, for the November training session!

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A successful publication by one of ReLaTe participants

On the 20th of  May 2010, Nataša Šudelija, from Croatia, published her video on the New Science Journalism!

RELATE partners congratulates her and hope that this is an encouraging news for all the other participants as well!

On the 8th of May 2010, Larisa Mihaela Stanciu, from Romania, published her article in the EcoMagazin.

Congratulations!

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Don’t lose your chance to participate: the last ReLaTe campaign is opened!

The last application campaign opened on the 1st May 2010 and will remain active until the 30th of June 2010. All interested journalism students are invited to submit a complete application form and a cv.

The screening of applications received will be conducted  in July and August; in September the selected participants will be announced.

If you have already submitted your application for the previous rounds, please don’t apply again; we will still take those into consideration.

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Announcement for young researchers:

The ICT 2010 conference will take place in Brussels on 27-29th September 2010. ICT 2010 is organised by the European Commission and hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. Around 4.500 participants are expected to attend this event. The EC is inviting young researchers working in FP7 ICT projects to attend the conference in Brussels as reporters of the main sessions, exhibition “watchers”, web radio animators and interviewers of the VIPs.

You can find the descriptions of these activities as well as the call for participation in the enclosed document.

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On the 26th of March, RELATE project participated in the EUSEW initiative

The Marmara Research Centre hosts the workshop ENERGY RESEARCH GOES MAINSTREAM: when science journalists meet energy researchers

In this special workshop, energy researchers, journalists and project coordinators presented what they have learned after their week in the labs. It was be an occasion to share views on how to improve the transfer of information between researchers and journalists and in particular with energy researchers. 10 journalists were hosted by the Marmara Research Centre during the entire week, within the framework of RELATE project and 5 of them stayed in the Energy lab.

The workshop took place on the last day of the training week when the journalists concluded their training and were ready to take part in the discussion with the researchers other local journalists and participants. In addition, the workshop was a chance for researchers and for the media attending to discuss how to set up new frameworks for cooperation, with the aim of better connecting relevant EU research to the mainstream and specialised media.

Programme of the workshop

Download here the poster of the RELATE event

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On the 21st of February 2010, Viktorija Rinkevičiūtė, from Lithuania, published her article on DELFI.lt, the major online news site in Lithuania!

RELATE partners congratulates her and hope that this is an encouraging news for all the other participants as well!

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Selection of the 2nd round candidates completed

33 young journalists selected to take part in the 2nd round of trainings in EU labs.
This is the list of selected candidates. Congratulations to all of them!

For details on the programme

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Abdulsamet Günek, from Turkey, has published his article on SUNDAY’s ZAMAT. He is the first student having succeded to publish an article on a national website! The news was posted on the 13th of December 2009. Article

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SELECTION OF THE 1st ROUND CANDIDATES

The following is the list of journalists who successfully participated in the first training session :

ANKARA

• Clara Attene (Italy)
• Jan Dabkowski (Poland)
• Monica Mejia-Chang (Spain/Panama)
• Miguel Álvarez Peralta (Spain)
• Viktorija Rinkevičiūtė (Lithuania)

ROME

• Sophie Stigler (Germany)
• Christoph Zotter (Austria)
• Ezgi Capa (Turkey)
• Abdulsamet Gunek (Turkey)
• Rupa Jayant Chandarana (UK)
• Efthymia Mourgela (Greece)
• Netta Ahituv (Israel)

LAUSANNE

• Zsófia Lénárt (Hungary)
• Zara Barlas (UK)
• Paulina Pielichata (Poland)
• Seema Jilani (UK/USA)
• Julia-Anna Photopoulos (Greece)

Congratulations to all of them!

For information about the articles and media materials produced by them, click on the left buttons to the specific sections.

To find out more about single journalists go in the “STUDENTS” area under “Participants”