Month: June 2017

It’s twins! LIFE reintroduced lynx gives birth in the Palatinate Forest

Kaja has given birth! The four-year-old lynx (Lynx lynx carpathicus), who was one of the first three individuals to be reintroduced to the Palatinate Forest under the German LIFE Luchs Pfälzerwald project (LIFE13 NAT/DE/000755), has produced a litter of two. The births are the first reproductions to have occurred in

Environment – Pioneering partnership of 19 countries to tackle water and food shortages in the Mediterranean

A new Partnership on Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) will soon start to develop much-needed solutions for a more sustainable management of water and agro-food systems. A proposal to set up PRIMA was today adopted in a vote in the European Parliament plenary meeting in Strasbourg. Powered

Events – OLEA R&I Info & Project Networking Event – 29 June 2017, Brussels, Belgium

The UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN (Spain) is located in the province of Jaén (Andalusian Region), which is the main producer of olive oil in the world. In order to foster the joint participation of researchers, SMEs, public administrations, universities and research institutes, the UJA will be hosting a R&I Project Info

Events – CROWD_USG. Crowdsourcing urban sustainability governance – 15 June 2017, Gent, Belgium

Open initial seminar @ Centre for Sustainable Development – CDO, Ghent University. CROWD_USG is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research project exploring how ICT-people interactions are transforming the governance of urban sustainability. This seminar will present the background, motivations, scope and expected results of the project, by exploring current scientific production and

Events – MSCA participates in the Ecsite Annual Conference 2017 (Porto, Portugal) – 15-17 June 2017, Porto, Portugal

The European network of science centres and museums (Ecsite) is organising its Annual Conference 2017 in the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP). This event is the largest event in Europe linked to public engagement with science with more than one thousand attendees at a