News

03/04/10

The second issue of the Newsletter from our FP7 Project "SustainergyNet" is out!

01/15/10
On 20 January 2010, in Beijing, Markus Schmidt (IDC, Austria) and Wei Wei (IBCAS, China) will organise a workshop regarding biosafety and risk assessment needs of synthetic biology in Europe and China.
10/13/09
Produced and directed by Markus Schmidt and Camillo Meinhart, the 38 minutes documentary film 'SYNBIOSAFE: Synthetic Biology and its Safety and Ethical Aspects' has been released October 2009.
06/09/09

This documentary film - made by IDC - shows the importance of agricultural biodiversity for food and agriculture, with astonishing pictures from Europe and Asia.

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IDC is an interdisciplinary association of scientists from a variety of different scholarly disciplines, such as physics, biology, social and political sciences. Our aim is to promote international scientific exchange and cooperation in order to tackle global, environmental and socio-economic challenges.

In this regard, IDC prepares, implements and coordinates various national and international research projects, partly funded under the research framework programme of the European Commission.

IDC consists of several working groups with different thematic focuses such as energy, synthetic biology, food security and institutional evolution.
One of the main goals of IDC is to increase public awareness of new scientific developments and its societal ramifications, to stimulate debate and exchange of ideas and perspectives. Within this approach, IDC organises public information events on issues of global concern.













































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