View Conference Announcement & Invitation The SACI National Convention is the 44th in an exciting and long-standing series of scientific meetings focussed on the chemical sciences performed in South Africa under the auspices of South African Chemical Institute (SACI). The aim of the National Convention is to bring together scientists from a variety of disciplines…
Two talks will be presented: HONEY AND MORE: SCAMS, COUNTING & HEXAGONS BY PROF CHRISTIAN PIRK SOCIAL INSECTS RESEARCH GROUP, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA ——————————————— ANALYSIS AND HUMAN DIETRAY INTAKES OF NEONICOTINOIDS IN HONEY BY DR OVOKEROYE ABAFE MARIE CURIE SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE & RISK ASSESSMENT, SCHOOL…
We launch a nationwide contest for children in the age group of 9-16 years (Classes III to IX). They will be asked to imagine what they would do to change the world, make it more sustainable, if they were scientists. There are two categories: drawing/painting; essay/story writing. The idea is to expose children to the…
The project includes a scientific workshop and a public engagement in science and technology event and campaign. The workshop “Human Ecology – a multidisciplinary approach” It aims at promoting a complexity science approach to sustainability whilst recognizing that the human dimension is central in this endeavour. We reached a consensus on how human activity has…
IRD and IIASA launched a two year project to explore how local pathways toward the SDGs can be developped.
The Science Council of Japan made the very interesting exercise of classifying the resolutions it adopted in the period 2014-2017 according to the SDGs. Let’s have a look at SDG10 and SDG11.
Cities are places were science is produced. They also need new scientific knowledge to improve.
