http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/language/en-GB/Default.aspx - RSS Feed en-us Aileen Aileen Sat, 19 May 2012 04:06:46 GMT EfficionConsulting Articles Module (www.efficionconsulting.com) Copyright 2012, HEIMTSA The final HEIMTSA, INTARESE, 2-FUN meeting will take place on 20th and 21st January 2011 at the Bedford Hotel in Brussels . The event will consist of a conference day open to the public, on the 20th of January, highlighting the achievements of the projects, and closed final project meetings on the 21st of January. More information is available at www.intarese.org . Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT The 2nd International Conference on Risk Assessment "Global Risk Assessment Dialogue" is organised by the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers of the European Commission. It will be held at Brussels, Belgium, 26-28 January 2011. The registration deadline is 12 December 2010. More information is available HERE . The conference will be preceded by an Introductory Workshop on Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) on 25 January, organised by the EU FP6 projects INTARESE, HEIMTSA and 2-FUN.  Registration deadline is 17 December. Further information is available HERE . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/2006/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT The SAFE project is organising the Food Safety Workshop 'Endocrine Disruptive Effects of Pesticides from Low Dose Exposure: Evidence for Non-Monotonic Dose Response Curves?' that will be held 15-16 March 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. Further information is available at the SAFE websites . Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT This course will be held from 21-25 March 2011 at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. It aims to provide knowledge on dose response modelling in toxicology for risk assessment of chemicals. The course is intended for PhD students, post docs, senior scientists and other professionals. Further information is available at www.cascadenet.org/~RA-COURSES . Application deadline is January 21, 2011. Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT The conference will take place from 17-20 May 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic . It is organised under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of Environment and aims to gather experts to present the latest scientific and practical knowledge and to exchange their experience to find common ways for cooperation. More information can be found following this link: http://odour.webnode.cz/en/konference/konference-petra-2011/ Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT This conference, to be held from 06-09 February 2011 in Salvador, Brazil , will provide an interdisciplinary platform to exchange knowledge and learn about the latest issues in environmental health. Contributions for oral and poster presentations can be submitted until 17 September 2010. Fore more information please visit the conference website . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Environmental Health Risk 2011 is the 6th International Conference on the Impact of environmental factors on Health, and will take place 25-27 July 2011 in Riga, Latvia. More information and the submission of abstracts is available at the conference website . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT This NewGeneris conference on children's risks of early exposure during pregnancy will be held 18-19 January 2011 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Abstract submission is possible until 10 September 2010. More information is available at www.newgeneris.org. Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT This conference will be held 18 October 2010 in Brussels, Belgium , organised with the support of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It offers the opportunity to present results of investigations and consequences in terms of decision making and is an event open to all sectors. Case studies can be presented as abstract, poster or article and can be submitted until 15 September. Further information can be found HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT This event is being organised within the scope of the Belgian EU-presidency. It will be held 27-28 October 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. The event aims to bring together scientists, public and occupational health professionals and policy makers to promote human biomonitoring as a regional, national and European policy tool in Environment and Health. Information about the conference and the programme, as well as registration can be found on the conference websites . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT The project 2-FUN is organising a summer school on gnostic and robust methods in data treatment from 22-25 June 2010 in Prague. Further information and registration is available at the project's homepage www.2-FUN.org . Registration is still possible. A summer school flyer is available HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT The ERA-ENVHEALTH project has launched its latest newsletter, available here . ERA-ENVHEALTH is an ERA-NET project bringing together national institutions that fund research programmes in the field of E&H. For further information please visit www.era-envhealth.eu . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT In May 2009, the project Risk ASSETs was launched. The 'Risk Assessment and Management - European Training Programme' aims to address the need for improved risk assessment training throughout the EU. The focus is on the areas of toxicology, exposure assessment to chemicals, environmental and bio-monitoring, epidemiology, substances in consumer products and electromagnetic fields. More information is available at Risk ASSETs' home page . Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Second International Symposium on Green Chemistry for Environment and Health will be held in Mykonos island, Greece, from 27-29 September 2010 . The main conference goal is to present and appoint issues related with renewable resources, green pharmacy, ecotoxicology environmental legislation and policy etc. More information is available HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT 2 Training workshops will be organised by the EU project NanoImpactNet this summer in Bratislava, Slovakia : Environmental fate and behaviour of engineered nanoparticles 19-21 July 2010 Risk assessment of nanomaterials 21-23 July 2010 Further information is available HERE or at the project's website . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT The ICCA-LRI & JRC Workshop 2010  'Integrating new Advances in Exposure Science and Toxicity Testing: Next Steps' is going to take place 16-17 June 2010 in Stresa, Italy . The workshop will focus on advanced approaches in the fields of exposure science and toxicity testing and their application to the design evaluation and health risk management of chemicals. Further information is available at the workshop's webpage . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT Two events will take place in Oslo, Norway: The Society for Free Radical Research (SFRR) Meeting will hold its annual meeting from 12-15 September 2010. More information can be found HERE . Also, EEMS will have its 40th annual meeting from 15-18 September 2010, information is available HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT The conference will be organised from 10-13 November 2010 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands . This event combines the 18th Annual EUPHA meeting and the 32nd annual meeting of ASPHER. The focus of this conference is put on Integrated Public Health. For more information please visit the conference web site . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT The 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health has taken place 10-12 March 2010 in Parma, Italy. Being organised by WHO/Europe and hosted by Italy, it was the latest milestone in the European environment and health process, now in its twentieth year. With a focus on the protection of children's health in a changing environment, the Conference adopted the 'Parma Declaration on Environment and Health' ; it solidifies the commitment to act on key H&E challenges such as climate change, children’s health, social inequalities, burden of diseases, and persistent chemicals/nanoparticles. Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT The final event of the HENVINET project on 'Approaching Complexities in Environment and Health' will be held 14-15 April 2010 in Brussels . The aim of this conference is to bring together the research community and other stakeholders in the area of environmental health, to address the complexities faced in the often multidisciplinary research, and the issues encountered in communicating scientific results to decision makers. Further information is available at www.henvinet.eu or can be downloaded HERE . You are most welcome to contribute with a poster , abstract deadline is 15 March . Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT The 2010 Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)-Europe conference will be held 21-23 June 2010 in London, UK, with the special theme ‘Risk, Governance & Accountability’. The venue will be hosted by King’s College London and aims to facilitate interaction among all actors in the field of risk: academics from across the disciplines, policy makers, the private sector, NGOs and other interest groups. Further information can be found on the conference-website . The deadline for abstracts has been extended until 29 January 2010. Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT The international conference 'Urban Environmental Pollution - Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life' will take place from 20-23 June 2010 in Boston, MA, USA . The event will bring together experts from all over the world to exchange knowledge on environmental innovation to create sustainable urban areas. The abstract submission deadline is February 1, 2010. Further information is available at the conference website . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT HiWATE - Health Impacts of Long-Term Exposure to Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water is holding its annual conference and an open day from 22-24 February 2010 in London. The HiWATE Open Day aims to give an overview of the current state of disinfection by-product research and the main findings of the EU-funded HiWATE project. The full programme is available HERE . Registration and further information can be found at the HiWATE website . Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT The 8th International Symposiumon Advanced Environmental Monitoring will be held 29 June - 01 July 2010 at Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan . The event will be organised by the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and the Advanced Environmental Monitoring Research Center (ADEMRC). The conference will provide an opportunity for multidisciplinary expert teams to share knowledge, present research results and work together developing new avenues for science in technology in the field of environmental health monitoring. http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1383/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT The four projects HEIMTSA, INTARESE; 2-FUN and NoMiracle are organising a hands-on training course on integrating uncertainty within environmental health impact assessment in order to promote the use of the harmonised methodology . The course will take place on 20-22 January 2010 at the Firbush Field Centre, University of Edinburgh, on Loch Tay , just before the third HEIMTSA annual meeting. For more info and registration form, go HERE. http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1337/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT The Open Assessment Workshop 2010 is the fourth workshop about new methods in assessments (previously more narrowly on risk assessment), organised by the National Institute for Health and Welfare, (THL), Kuopio, Finland . The venue will take place 15-19 February 2010 . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1349/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT The International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH) together with the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI) invites to the 11th World Congress on Environmental Health in Vancouver, Canada, 05-10 September 2010 . Abstract deadline is 15 December 2009 . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1347/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT The 5th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology sponsored by the American Academy of Sciences will be held on July 12-16, 2010 in Houston, Texas, USA. The conference will provide a multidisciplinary platform for environmental scientists, engineers, management professionals and government regulators to discuss the latest developments in environmental research and applications. The conference Website provides further information, email inquiries can be sent to env-conference@AASci.org . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT The 10th Urban Environment Symposium will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 9-11 2010 . This symposium will provide a forum for recent R&D within a wide range of topics related to urban environment. The deadline for submitting abstracts for oral or poster presentations is 30. November 2009 . Detailed information can be found at the conference website For additional information, please contact Maria Svane ( secretariat@hues.se ). http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1314/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT The Society of Toxicology organises the PPTOXII conference from 07.-10. December 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida/USA . This conference is the continuation of the first PPTOX conference that took place in 2007. More information as well as the preliminary program is available at PPTOXII homepage . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Coping with Uncertainty - A Multidisciplinary Research Conference on Risk Governance in the Baltic Sea will take place from 15.-17. November 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden . The aim of  this conference is to discuss implications of uncertainty at science-policy interfaces connected with environmental, social and economic risks in the Baltic Sea Region. Updated information can be found on the conference webpage . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT In 2009, the second joint European Conference on Public Health will be organised  from 26.-28.11. in Lodz, Poland . This year's focus is put on human ecology and public health.  HEIMTSA and INTARESE will contribute to a workshop on policy impact assessment. Information on the conference can be found HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT From 09-11 December 2009 the International Meeting on Environment and Health will take place at the Italian National Institute for Health in Rome . The intention of this meeting is to define emerging health and environmental problems and provide hints for preventive actions and management. The announcement is available HERE . More information can be found on IMHE2009's webpage . Sonja Grossberndt Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT The Association for Aerosol Research invites to their International Specialty Conference on Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes , taking place in San Diego, 22-26.03.2010 . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1261/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT The final conference of the PRONET project will take place 03.11.2009 in Brussels . The PRONET project aimed at collecting examples of good practice in the fields of Indoor Environment and Transport, in relation to health. Case studies have been collected on different topics, that have been proven to be effective measures in reducing exposure or improving health. The results have been turned into fact sheets and will be disseminated in various ways. http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1255/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT The International Network on Children’s Health Environment and Safety (INCHES) is organising the 5th International Conference on Children's Health and the Environment . It will take place from 01.-03.02.2010 in Bangalore, India . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1238/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT BioDetection Systems welcomes you to participate at the BioDetectors 2009 workshop from 24.-25.09.2009 in Amsterdam. More information is available at the the BioDetectors workshop 2009 homepage . Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT The 15th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment which will take place in Gdansk from 19-23.09.2010. Please consult the  homepage of ICHMET for more information. Aileen Yang Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT From 12-16 October 2009 the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden will arrange a course in philosophy of risk in health risk assessment. The objective of the course is to provide an overview of important aspects of interactions between science and policy in health risk assessment with a focus on strategies to handle scientific uncertainty. Further information and application is available HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT Invitation to the 2nd workshop on Particulate Matter: Research and Management, to be held at Mokra Gora, Serbia, 29.08.-02.09.2009. The workshop aims at bringing forward knowledge about particulate matter in the West Balkan and Mediterranean area, and at promoting dialogue between scientists and air quality managers. This is the first call for contributions, oral or poster, to be published in a conference book of abstracts, with a possibility to publish as an article in Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly. First abstract deadline is 10.7.2009. More information will be available at the conference website . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1117/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Aileen Yang Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT The upcoming conference on “Multiple Stressors – Novel Methods for Integrated Risk Assessment” will take place from 28–30 September 2009 in Aarhus, Denmark . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/994/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT The Conference on " Valuation of Environment-Related Health" , to be held in Prague, Czech Republic , on September 17th–18th, 2009  Co-organised by OECD and Charles University in Prague Hosted by Charles University in Prague, Environment Center http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/857/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. An article recently published in Lancet puts emphasis on the necessity of an intersectoral and interdisciplinary response towards the health effects caused by climate change. The full article is available HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT The TRISK - European Toxicology Risk Assessment Training Programme is now open for application. The objective of the training programme is to provide a comprehensive training in toxicological risk assessment that serves as a model for future European training in risk assessment for accredited European risk assessors. The training programme includes eight 1-week-long course modules, an applied training at an institution performing risk assessments and a final examination and lasts throughout 2010 and 2011. Further details can be found at the Trisk webpages or the RA-COURSES website . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT The main aim of the annual meeting is to create a 'continous EU exchange platform' among scientific and preventive fields including both professional groups and public service within the EU and Region (EUR). Further information about the meeting on Environment and Public Health soon can be found on the webpages of EPH or EPhE . Aileen Yang Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT 'Protecting children's health in a changing environment' - with this focus the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health will be held from 10.-12.03.2010 in Parma, Italy.   The aim is to drive Europe's agenda on emerging environmental health challenges for the upcoming years as the next milestone in the European environment and health process. More information is available at www.euro.who.int/parma2010 . The conference leaflet can be downloaded HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT AFSSET and the French Risk and Society Network organise this conference on governing uncertainty to be held in Paris from 6-7 July 2009 . http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/966/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT The latest issue of Applied Acoustics published the results of an Irish study about mapping noise pollution simply and cost-effectively. The study evaluates a simple noise mapping tool and demonstrates that it produces very similar results to standard commercial software and therefore can be considered as alternative. The pdf of the study is available HERE . Sonja Grossberndt Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT A short course on GIS for integrated assessment will be held from 29 June - 03 July 2009 at Imperial College, London. This workshop aims on communicating in which ways spatial methods and GIS can be used for exposure assessment and risk analysis in order to support public health policy. http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/989/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT The joint British-Irish 21st annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) will take place from 25-29 August 2009 in Dublin, Ireland . The main theme is 'Environment, Food and Global Health'. In addition to the focus on the topic "food environment and global health" the scientific programme will cover the whole spectrum of topics in environmental epidemiology. HEIMTSA will contribute to the conference with several presentations. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the 21st ISEE website . Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT The second joint HEIMTSA-INTARESE work-shop was held with emphasis on "Developments in Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA), with special reference to policies that affect Indoor Air". http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/1008/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Sonja Grossberndt Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT The deadline for registrating to the HEIMTSA/2-FUN/INTARESE Summer school have been prolonged to 30th April. Please register HERE  if you still haven't done so. Aileen Yang Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT HEIMTSA along with INTARESE and 2-FUN is arranging a summer school in Stuttgart, Germany, on the 10th till 12th June 2009. The registration starts now and will end by the 9th April .   More Info and the registration form is available HERE ! http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/907/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Aileen Yang Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT The 1st HEIMTSA newsletter is now available! You can find it on the homepage underneath the project leaflet. If you are a registered user you will receive the newsletter automatically; if you wish to receive HEIMTSA newsletters in the future you have to register first . Sonja Grossberndt Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT On 26 and 27 March 2009, the NoMiracle 5th public workshop Cumulative Risk Assessment: a Challenge for Science and Management will be held in the Study Centre Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein, the Netherlands. http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/818/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Aileen Yang Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT The portal has undergone a total restructuring to make data management easier and more intuitive. Aileen Yang Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT A new HEIMTSA Web Portal is launched. The new portal has been developed using a new content Management system called DotNetNuke (DNN).. http://www.heimtsa.eu/Home/tabid/152/ItemID/580/View/Details/language/en-GB/Default.aspx Mike Kobernus Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT