The call for scientific proposals for Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2014 is open. The ESOF 2014 Programme Committee invites original and excellent session proposals before the deadline May 9, 2013. All submitted proposals will be reviewed and assessed by the ESOF 2014 Programme Committee.
Proposals are welcome within the following eight themes:
- The Healthy Society
- A Revolution of the Mind
- Global Resource Management
- Learning in the 21st Century
- Green Economy
- Material and Virtual World
- Urbanization, Design and Liveability
- Science, Democracy & Citizenship
Within each theme applicants are encouraged when appropriate to address cross cutting issues such as: links between the natural and social sciences and humanities; policy implications; economical and business issues; media involvement; gender ethical dimension and public perceptions. Applicants are welcome to interpret the themes in the most generous manner and go across or beyond our descriptions and categories.
Chair of the Programme Committee, Professor Gunnar Öquist (former permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences): “I am confident that the ESOF 2014 scientific programme will be of the highest scientific quality and address the potential consequences for society and the policy implications. Moreover, the programme will inspire and encourage coming generations to engage with science.”
About the conference
The 2014 edition of ESOF will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 21-26, 2014 and is organised in collaboration between the Danish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Higher Education and the founder of ESOF, Euroscience.
The event will bring together over 4500 scientists, business leaders, government officials, students, policy-makers and international scientific media representatives to discuss the best of European science and to address all of the current major global scientific challenges. An ambitious public engagement programme will be organized in order to facilitate public dialogue, interaction and mutual responsiveness between scientific communities and society at large. Read more on www.esof2014.org.
Further information on the ESOF 2014 Programme Committee can be found here.
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