Interdisciplinary Science Initiatives

Green Engineering Camp

The Green Engineering Camp (GEC) is a pilot COST Interdisciplinary Science Initiative aimed at engaging specifically early stage researchers and investigators in real-life applications and intelligent and innovative uses of green ICT in order to boost knowledge transfer efficiently and to initiate new ideas and solutions to current and future challenges. Currently, a call for ideas is ongoing to select the most innovative ideas to present!

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COST Action events

Training School ‘Next Generation Sequencing analysis methods for life sciences’

This Training School is a Trans-Domain activity funded by COST to involve the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) from three COST Actions: BM1006 ‘Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network’, TD0801 ‘Statistical challenges on the 1000€ genome sequences in plants’ and FA0806 ‘Plant virus control employing RNA-based vaccines: A novel non-transgenic strategy’.

Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)
Food and Agriculture (FA)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

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External events

Planet Under Pressure - New knowledge towards solutions

A major international conference to provide scientific leadership towards the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio+20

Earth System Science and Environmental Management (ESSEM)

Open to public

Exploratory workshops

Sustainable Protein Supply

The aim of the workshop is to come up with a research agenda that provides a vision and ambition on future supply of sustainable protein in Europe and defines the first steps to be taken to realize its implementation.

Food and Agriculture (FA)

Registration closed

External events

Urbanism on Track 2012

Tracking technologies such as GPS, mobile phone tracking, video and RFID monitoring are rapidly becoming part of daily life. Technological progress offers huge possibilities for studying human activity patterns in time and space in new ways.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

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COST-ESF events

RESCUE Synthesis Report - Launch Event

The RESCUE synthesis report will be presented officially during the RESCUE Press Event on Thursday 16 February 2012.

Earth System Science and Environmental Management (ESSEM)
Food and Agriculture (FA)
Forests, their Products and Services (FPS)
Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH)

Upon invitation only

External events

Personalised Health Care: From Theory to Practice

After years of development, personalised health care is starting to move into clinical practice - and patients, healthcare providers and payers could all benefit.

Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)

Registration open

External events

Innovation Convention

This first edition of the Innovation Convention was held in Brussels and opened by President Barroso one year after the adoption of the Innovation Union flagship initiative, the EU's roadmap to turn Europe into a more innovation-friendly and competitive continent.

Registration open

Exploratory workshops

Early embryonic environment as cues of epigenetics responses for sustainable food production

The key to health and developmental success in wombed (mammalians) and non wombed (Fish and poultry) animals for improved sustainability, welfare and production

Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)
Food and Agriculture (FA)

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