The National Inventors Hall of Fame wants to increase the diversity of its candidate pool and the technologies represented,
The National Inventors Hall of Fame was established in 1973 to honor individuals who conceived, patented, and advanced great technological achievements that have benefited our society.  

The World Federation of Science Journalists has moved! We left our office space in Ottawa/Gatineau and moved a couple of hundred kilometers down the road to Montreal. We are sharing office space with the the Quebec Science-Presse agency and with the Quebec member of the WFSJ, the Association des Communicateurs Scientifiques du Quebec.
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Win the opportunity to attend and cover the Kavli Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway 8 – 11 September 2014. Be one of up to 5 journalists to win a scholarship and get the opportunity to attend the Kavli Prize.
Photo: Baraka Bashir from Nigeria one of the scholarship recipient in 2012 With Prof.Rita Colwell & Prof. Øivind Andersen, Secretary  Gereral at the Norwegian  Academy of Science and Letters.  Photo: Scanpix

The Balkan Association of Science Journalists (BASJ) recently joined the World Federation of Science Journalists, becoming its 45th proud member.
BASJ was founded in June 2012, at a regional training course in Tirana, Albania. The founders of the association are 12 science journalists, from the Balkans and South-Eastern Europe (Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Serbia).

The second West Africa Science Journalists Conference (WASJC) is West Africa's largest, general science meeting. WASJC 2013 will be hosted in Niamey, Niger from November 11th-13th, 2013. The first conference was held in Cotonou in 2012.

Thanks to Mr. Pouria Nazemi, an Iranian science journalist now living in Montréal (Canada), the 10 lessons of the World Federation’s Online Course in Science Journalism are now available in Farsi, or Persian.

The 13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference will be held 5-8 May 2014, in Salvador, Brazil 

David Dickson, founder and first director of SciDev.net, passed away.