The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) welcome entries for the 5th WASH Media Awards. This competition is open to journalists who publish or broadcast original investigative stories and reports on water supply, sanitation or hygiene (WASH) related issues and their impact on individual and country development.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE JOURNALISM?

The detailed report of the 1st Kavli Symposium on the Future of Science Journalism (Chicago, February2014) is now available on our website!

Journalists in Brazil, China, India and Russia have a chance to win a trip to the United States and cash prizes as part of four regional competitions to recognize the best media coverage of maternal and child health.

Be one of up to 8 journalists to win a scholarship and get the opportunity to attend the 2014 EcoHealth Conference! 
Cover the panel sessions meet and interview the researchers.

AlphaGalileo, a business to business service that is free to the media, recently joins WFSJ as Associate Partner.

BBC Science in Action is a weekly radio magazine programme for the BBC World Service in English, that pulls together the science issues of the week and delivers breaking science news from the just-released journals.

The 2nd Heidelberg Laureate Forum will take place during September 21-26, 2014. An opportunity to meet some of the world’s best computer scientists and mathematicians!

Just 30% of the world’s researchers are women. But at a closer look, in Bolivia, women account for 63% researchers, compared to France with a rate of 26% or Ethiopia at 8%.

These latest data on the status of women in research by region and country are now available though WOMEN IN SCIENCE by UNESCO Institute for Statistics.