Beamline to success! Engineering the future at the World’s largest X-ray Laser

This virtual outreach event has been planned to attract applications of students in the engineering fields with the double aim of: – increasing gender balance; – showing different engineer paths at European XFEL. With an all-female panel of colleagues pursuing engineering careers at the Data and Instrumentation Departments the goal is to show European XFEL…

Listening to the Urgent Call of Humanity: IYBSSD and Onward

Prof. Prajval Shastri (Vice Chair of the IYBSSD Steering and Advisory Committee and Adjunct Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) is visiting TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre in Vancouver. The program includes several highlights: – Monday, September 11th: Science for Sustainability – an open dialogue in a key moment of global mobilization…

Developing and Enacting Codes of Conducts in Professional Unions

More and more academic, research, and industrial institutions are enacting codes of conduct. These codes clarify an organization’s mission, values, and principles and can serve as both internal guidelines and external statements of values and commitments. Several international unions have recently developed such codes of conduct, and many more are interested in doing so. This…

Africa Science Week

Breaking Barriers, Inspiring Scientific Excellence The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), with the support of the Henry Luce Foundation (HLF), announces today the launch of the Africa Science Week (ASW) of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), which will take place simultaneously in 10 African countries from 19th to 28th of June 2023. This Pan…

I International School of Crystallography: X-Ray Powder Diffraction

This initiative seeks to disseminate crystallography and X-ray techniques, especially powder diffraction, in the Latin American scientific-technological community. It also seeks to orient research supported by crystallographic methods toward the SDGs, mainly promoting quality education. In its first edition, this initiative seeks to train (mainly junior) Latin American researchers so that from a scientific approach,…