EMBRC is looking for a motivated and proficient Scientific and Technical Communication Officer to support and amplify RIs development potential through effective communication, social relations and reporting. Policy makers will act as a main audience of the communication that will include extensive and factual reporting activities. Producing articles for social media channels and events will [...]
IAGOS‐AISBL is looking for an Executive Secretary for a full-time position, starting on the 15th September 2017. Part time (80% minimum) can be negotiated. The office of the Executive Secretary is located in Brussels. An alternative office can be installed at the premises of one of the coordinating Members of IAGOS‐AISBL, i.e. CNRS, Toulouse, or [...]
A new book, titled Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities has been published by CRC Press, in February 2017. The book, edited by dr. habil. Abad Chabbi and dr. Henry W. Loescher, reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new valuable insights on ecological processes that cannot be realized by more traditional short-term funding [...]
The second Call for JERICO-NEXT for Transnational Access to Coastal Observatories is open from February 20 to April 10, 2017 The JERICO-NEXT project is offering access to Observing systems, such as ferrybox lines, fixed platforms, including cabled observatories, glider fleets, and fishing vessels based in coastal and shelf-sea areas around Europe. Supporting facilities, such as [...]
From multidisciplinary data to integrated information for coastal areas The H2020 project JERICO-next will organize a Summer School on the use of integrated physical and biological monitoring with novel sensor methods for water management issues such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. The JERICO-next project develops the European network of coastal observatories, including novel sensor [...]
The RItrain project is organising staff exchange programme visits as part of the mission to share management expertise among European Research Infrastructures. The purpose of RItrain Staff Exchanges is for managerial staff from European Research Infrastructures to learn from managerial and leadership best practices in areas that are new to them, or that they feel [...]
ENVRIplus European Innovation Partnering Forum Grenoble 18–19 May 2017 Please note that the registration to this event has ended A community of 23 pan-European environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI RIs), members of the European Commission Horizon 2020 project ENVRIplus, will meet with Private Industry partners to explore opportunities for new joint innovation projects. The meeting, organised [...]
A THOR-ENVRIplus Bootcamp Are you working in a technical or leading role within an Environmental Research Infrastructure? Join us at Aalto University in Finland on March 28-29, 2017 to learn more about ORCID integrations and discuss best practices with colleagues from other Environmental Research Infrastructures. Project THOR supports seamless integration between articles, data and [...]
Conference on communicating the importance of science to society Garching (near Munich), Germany 29-30 May, 2017 Scope of the workshop Science is exciting, enlightening, complex, fundamental, precise, logical, and creative, all at the same time. However, for the public to get in touch with it and understand why it encompasses all these concepts, efforts need [...]
The 2nd ENVRIplus Call for Transnational access is now closed. ENVRIplus launched the 2nd call for proposals to access European multi-disciplinary environmental research platforms. ENVRIplus offers opportunities for free-of-charge transnational access (TNA) for selected research groups and companies to a number of multi-disciplinary research platforms wishing to conduct research or test instruments for cross-disciplinary topics [...]