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Asia Research News
Asia Research News

ResearchSEA is Asia's first research news portal, a one-stop centre where journalists and members of the public can gain access to news and local experts from the research world in Asia.

Promoting public understanding of research encourages long term innovation and growth. The media is key to promoting public understanding. Almost everyone in the world reads newspapers, magazines, websites, watch TV or listen to the radio. The media is the ultimate gateway to the international community and a powerful medium for forging local and international links.

Athena Web
Athena Web

Launched in the spring of 2005, AthenaWeb is a video portal and workspace for European audiovisual communication professionals in the areas of science and scientific information.

Contributors and users of the service include institutions, universities, labs, corporations, not-for-profit organisations, and of course the television and film industry (broadcasters, journalists, documentary makers, producers, people who commission TV programming, etc.).

ESOF2010
ESOF2010

ESOF – Euroscience Open Forum – is the biennial European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation created by Euroscience.

The great questions of science and technology, emerging scientific and cultural trends, the ethical social doubts and concerns that appear on the horizon of society and the scientific community will be on stage.

A unique opportunity to meet in Europe to present and discuss the frontiers of scientific and technological research, the relationship between science and society and to stimulate policies to support scientific research.

European Union of Science Journalists' Association
EUSJA

Founded in 1971 in Belgium by seven national associations of science journalists, EUSJA now represents more than 2000 science journalists from 25 countries.

Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 there was an upsurge of interest from Eastern European countries, all of whom now play an active role in EUSJA’s activities. Member countries are (March 2008) Albania, Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

Greenhouse Gas Management Institute
GHG Management Institute

Recognizing the importance of competency and ethics, the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2007 to train and support a global community of qualified professionals to work on GHG measurement, accounting, auditing and management.

We believe that the green jobs of the future include an army of skilled professionals tasked with ensuring the numbers supporting emissions trading markets and other GHG policies are reliable and transparent. We are preventing climate change policies and carbon markets from suffering the type of problems exhibited in financial markets.

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