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Euroscience president presents plans for ESOF 2008 to European Union committee

Professor Banda at EU ITRE hearing on Oct. 2

Plans which will bring together cutting-edge research issues from across European science, at the European Science Open Forum (ESOF) 2008 in Barcelona, will be presented to the ITRE European Union Committee on 2 October 2007. Professor Enric Banda, President of Euroscience and co-chair of ESOF 2008, will make the presentation and participate in an exchange of views with the Committee.

The role of ESOF 2008 was described by Professor Banda: “The EuroScience Open Forum is a multidisciplinary meeting of scientists, policy makers, and journalists and science communicators, plus business people, teachers and students and individuals in general. This range of audiences makes ESOF unique.” The event will bring together thousands of scientists across all disciplines, and members of the public, to participate in events on cutting-edge science dealing with European science issues ranging from the health of the human mind and body to energy security and climate change. Dr Banda sees ESOF as making a clear contribution to European integration and collaboration.

The hearing is to be held by the European Union Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE), chaired by Angelika Niebler of Germany. ITRE’s responsibilities include the European Union’s policy on research and its exploitation. The ESOF 2008 session, to be held at 15:00hrs on 2 October, will be followed at 16:00 to 16:30 hrs by a press conference on ‘European science and technology and its links to wealth and social progress’. It will be attended by Dr Enric Banda and Mrs Teresa Riera Madurell.

Registration to attend the wide range of events at ESOF 2008 in Barcelona from 18 to 22 July opens shortly. For more details see: www.esof2008.org.

ESOF is a biennial event to showcase European achievements across the scientific spectrum, and provides an open forum for debates on science related issues and European and international research. ESOF 2008 in Barcelona builds on events held in Stockholm 2004 and Munich 2006. ESOF 2010 will be in Torino.

Professor Enric Banda, a geophysicist from Spain, is President of Euroscience, the ‘Voice of science in Europe’, a European Association for the promotion of science and technology based in Strasbourg. He is also co-chair of the Euroscience Open Forum 2008. The Project Team for ESOF 2008 is based in the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation.

Photographs of Professor Banda are available on request. He is available for interview immediately after the press conference at 16.30 on 2 October. To arrange an interview or request photographs/more information about ESOF08, please contact:

ESOF08 communication/promotion enquiries:

Jaume Urgell
ESOF2008
Communications Director
Email jaume.urgell@esof2008.org
Phone 34-932687707

Carl Johan Sundberg
Karolinska Institutet
Chair, Communication Committee
Email carl.j.sundberg@ki.se

Media enquiries about the hearing and press conference on 2 October:

Andrea Maceiras Castro or Rosa Sivianes Limón
Press and Communications Office, European Parliament
Rue Wiertz, ASP 13G358
1050 Brussels
Tel. 32-22832722 / 32-473264086
E-mail: andrea.maceiras@europarl.europa.eu
E-mail: rosa.sivianeslimon@europarl.europa.eu

ESOF08 media enquiries:

Laura Miles
AlphaGalileo Foundation, ESOF2008 Media Partner
Operations Director
Email: laura.miles@alphagalileo.org
Phone: 44-7813-798834

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