Leading Conference Sponsors

 

Department for International Development (DFID)

The Department for International Development (DFID) is the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.

DFID are headed by a Cabinet minister, one of the senior ministers in the Government. This reflects how important the Government sees reducing poverty around the world. DFID have two headquarters (in London and East Kilbride, near Glasgow) and 64 offices overseas. DFID also have over 2500 staff, almost half of whom work abroad.

When DFID talk about international development they are referring to efforts, by developed and developing countries, to bring people out of poverty and so reduce how much their country relies on overseas aid. Many different things can contribute to development which reduces poverty, such as settling conflicts, increasing trade, tackling climate change, securing more and better aid, and improving health and education.

Major Conference Sponsors

 

British Council Darwin Now

The British Council is the UK's international body for cultural relations and works in more than 100 countries to create cultural and educational opportunities for people worldwide. Darwin Now is the British Council’s contribution to the international celebration of the 200 year anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Our international programme of activities will engage people from around the world and provide an opportunity to explore the relationship between evolution and society in an unprejudiced and open way.

 

European School of Oncology

The European School of Oncology (ESO) was founded in 1982 with a mission to reduce unnecessary death and suffering from cancer by promoting earlier diagnosis, optimal medical treatment and holistic patient care. In recent years ESO has increasingly addressed the wider political, administrative and organisational issues that affect the ability of health professionals to deliver top-quality patient-centred care. It seeks to inform politicians, policy makers and health service administrators through conferences and seminars and to promote a dialogue with these key groups within the pages of its bimonthly magazine Cancer World. In addition, ESO seeks to promote wider and more informed coverage of all cancer-related issues in the mass media. In 2007 the School established the Cancer Media Service which organises regular media training events as well as the Best Cancer Reporter Award. The scientific independence of the School is guaranteed by core funding from individual donors and a number of charitable foundations. ESO works for a cancer-free world, or at least for a world in which cancer becomes a fully manageable social and medical problem. Further information about ESO is available from www.cancerworld.org

 

Johnson & Johnson

Caring for the world, one person at a time... inspires and unites the people of Johnson & Johnson. They embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world. Johnson & Johnson have more than 250 operating companies in 57 countries employing 119,400 people. The worldwide headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

 

European Commission, Directorate General Research

 

Joint Research Centre - European Commission

The Joint Research Centre is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. Its mission is to provide customer-driven scientific and technical support for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of European Union policies. As a service of the European Commission, the JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the Community.

 

Qatar Foundation

The enrichment of human capital that is necessary for Qatar's transformation depends to a large extent upon fostering a science and health research culture. This is an environment that encourages the pursuit of new knowledge, conducts scientific research and develops new technologies. Qatar Foundation's Research Division and its partners are working hand in hand to build Qatar's innovation and technology capacity, and are uncovering solutions to national challenges in health, climate change, clean energy and other fields. Qatar Foundation, and its partners Sidra Medical and Research Center, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, and the Qatar Science and Technology Park are delighted to support the World Conference of Science Journalists.

 

Research Councils UK - Conference UK Research Partner

Research Councils UK is the strategic partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils, which invest annually around £3 billion in the UK research base, covering the full spectrum of academic disciplines. RCUK optimises the ways the Research Councils work together to enhance the impact of UK research, training and knowledge transfer.

Conference Sponsors

 

AEA Group

AEA are world leaders and trusted advisors in the field of environmental consultancy, operating in the UK, Europe, the US and China. We are the leading provider of advisory services to the UK Government and work extensively with the EU and major private sector organisations. We are internationally renowned with expertise in air quality and climate change, carbon management, resource efficiency and the environmental impacts of transport.

 

AlphaGalileo Foundation

The AlphaGalileo news service is a one–stop shop for the world’s media providing them with news and background on all aspects of European research in science, the arts, technology, health, social sciences and the humanities. The service which is moderated, distributes press releases, event details, announcements of new books from Europe’s research institutions and makes them available to the world’s press, broadcasting and online media. News is taken in any European language, but also has a Spanish mirror site. The general public can access out of embargoed material.

 

Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation

The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation is a non-profit organization working as a Product Development Partnership to develop new tuberculosis vaccines and ensure that they are distributed to all who need them around the world. Aeras collaborates with academia, industry, foundations and governments to develop new TB vaccine candidates and delivery systems, manufacture vaccines at low cost and establish intellectual property rights to assure their future availability and affordability. Aeras’ major funders are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish International Development Agency and the Research Council of Norway. Aeras operates a state-of-the-art manufacturing and laboratory facility in Rockville, Maryland, USA and has an office in Cape Town, South Africa. For more information, visit www.aeras.org

 

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

BBSRC is one of 7 Research Councils that work together as Research Councils UK (RCUK). It is funded from the Government's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). BBSRC supports world-class research in some of the most exciting areas of contemporary science. These include: stem cell biology, brain function and behaviour, nanotechnology, e-science.

 

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) is an independent corporation created by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure. The CFI's mandate is to strengthen the capacity of Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions to carry out world-class research and technology development that benefits Canadians. Since its creation in 1997, the CFI has committed almost $4.5 billion in support of more than 6,000 projects at 129 research institutions in 64 municipalities across Canada.

 

CERN

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.

Founded in 1954, the CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 20 Member States.

 

EurekAlert!

EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media. EurekAlert! also offers its news and resources to the public. EurekAlert! features news and resources focused on all areas of science, medicine and technology.

 

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was established in 2005. It is an EU agency with aim to strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases. It is seated in Stockholm.
For further information about ECDC please consult our website www.ecdc.europa.eu or contact us at press@ecdc.europa.eu.

 

European Food Information Council (EUFIC)

The European Food Information Council, EUFIC, is a non-profit organisation which provides science-based information on food and food-related topics to the media, health and nutrition professionals, educators, and opinion leaders. EUFIC is supported by companies of the European food and drinks industries, and receives project funding from the European Commission.

 

European 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.

 

Government Office for Science

The Government Office for Science is led by Professor John Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser. Professor Beddington reports to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet and works with Government departments to ensure that Government policy development and delivery is underpinned by robust science and engineering advice and evidence.

 

Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

The Helmholtz Association contributes to unravelling complex systems which determine human life and environment. The Association develops answers to the decisive questions which move people today and in the future: a secure and reliable energy supply, sustainable use of resources, future mobility or the treatment of previously incurable diseases. But the work also addresses questions of a more fundamental nature, such as that of the origin of the universe.

 

Imperial College London

Rated as the world's fifth best university in the THES World University Rankings 2007, Imperial College London is a science-based institution with a reputation for excellence in teaching and research.

 

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

 

The Institut Laue-Langevin – ILL

The Institut Laue-Langevin is an international research centre at the leading edge of neutron science and technology. As a service institute the ILL makes its facilities and expertise available to some 1200 visiting scientists per year. Research focuses on fundamental science in condensed matter physics, chemistry, biology, nuclear physics and materials science...

 

The Kavli Foundation

The Kavli Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity, and promoting increased public understanding and support for scientists and their work. The Foundation’s mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes, professorships, symposia and other initiatives in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics. It is a founding partner of the Kavli Prizes in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, and its activities include programs supporting excellence in science journalism.

 

Knight Science Journalism Fellowships

MIT’s Science Journalism Fellowship program brings journalists from around the world to study at MIT and Harvard for a full academic year. Also, several times a year, the program hosts an intensive week-long training in current topics in science, health, technology, and environmental studies. The program, now in its 27th year, works to promote the public understanding of science by giving working journalists a chance to build their knowledge and confidence on topics in science and health, and a chance to learn new media skills, while taking time away from deadlines.

 

lightsources.org

lightsources.org is the result of a collaboration among communicators from light-source facilities around the world. The site serves as a clearing house for light-source-related news, educational material, and user-related information and is updated daily. It provides links to current light-source news from the world's press, high-resolution photos and graphics from light-source facilities around the world, links to education and outreach programs, information about science policy and funding, a conference calendar, and important facility-related information for light-source users.

 

Nature

Nature is the world's foremost weekly scientific journal and is the flagship journal for Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Launched in 1869, its original mission statement still leads the Group as they develop publications, explore opportunities arising from new technology and serve a growing audience of readers. NPG publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies.

 

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

 

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, founded in 1857, is a non-governmental, nation-wide, and interdisciplinary body which embraces all fields of learning. The main purpose of the Academy is the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway.
The Academy provides a national forum of communication within and between the various learned disciplines, and it represents Norwegian science in relation to foreign academies and international organisations.

 

NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of Dutch science by means of subsidies and research programmes.

 

Oxford Nanpore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is developing a new generation of DNA sequencing technology. Nanopores allow direct electrical measurement of single molecules, without the use of fluorescent labels, promising a step change improvement in cost and speed of DNA analysis. Nanopores may also be used to identify proteins and a variety of other analytes.www.nanoporetech.com

 

Research4Life

Research4Life is the collective name for three public-private partnerships which provide the developing world with free access or at little cost to critical scientific research. Beginning in 2002, the three initiatives, HINARI Access to Research Initiative, Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) and Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), have given researchers at 5,000 institutions in 108 developing world countries free or low cost access to over 7,500 journals provided by the world’s leading science publishers.

Research4Life is a public private partnership of the WHO, FAO, UNEP, Cornell and Yale Universities, Microsoft and more than 130 science publishers. The partnership’s goal is to help attain six of the UN’s eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, reducing the scientific knowledge gap between industrialized countries and the developing world.

 

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases

 

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. It supports broad breadth of independent, high quality research across the social sciences which has an impact on business, policy-makers, the public sector and the third sector. More at www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk

 

The National Association of Science Writers

In 1934, a dozen pioneering science reporters established the National Association of Science Writers at a meeting in New York. They wanted a forum in which to join forces to improve their craft and encourage conditions that promote good science writing.The association was formally incorporated in 1955 with a charter to "foster the dissemination of accurate information regarding science through all media normally devoted to informing the public." Over the years, its officers have included both freelancers and employees of most of the major newspapers, wire services, magazines, and broadcast outlets in the country. Above all, NASW fights for the free flow of science news.

 

UK UNESCO

The United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO is the focal point in the UK for UNESCO-related policies and activities.

As an independent body, the Commission is the principle adviser to and works closely in partnership with UK government, enabling it to engage UK organisations in education, science, culture and communication & information.

 

VWN (Dutch Association of Science Journalists)

The Dutch Association of Science Journalists promotes the journalistic interests of its 250 members, and aims at improving the quality of Dutch science journalism.