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3rd workshop on "Synthetic Genomics: Scientists' Understanding of Society's Concerns, Society's Understanding of the Science and Scientists". Washington DC, USA. 22-23th July 2010. Markus Schmidt will give a presentation during this event organszed by the Craig Venter Institute. More...

Regional Presentation Event of the SustainergyNet Project. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 1st July 2010. In cooperation with the Groupe de Recherche et d'Échanges Technologiques (GRET), IDC organised this workshop in Burkina Faso to present the newly launched webtool SustainergyWeb. Angela Meyer explained the main features and services offered by the webtool to interested stakeholders from the civil society, research and development sector, industry and the policy-making level. A subsequent panel discussion addressed the issue of civil society involvement in sustainable energy developments initiatives research and share experiences of multi-stakeholder cooperation. More...

EopictureNight10+5. Vienna Austria. 30th June 2010. This event that took place in Werkzeug, was a meeting that gave to professionals the opportunity to present their projects on different fields to the public in a dynamic and accesible way. As guest to this event, Dr. Markus Schmidt presented the festival "Bio:Fiction Festival: Synthetische Biologie im Film" as part of the IDC project CISYNBIO. More...

Regional Presentation Event of the SustainergyNet Project. Vienna, Austria. 24th June 2010. In cooperation with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP), IDC presented the newly launched webtool SustainergyWeb and discussed further ways and possibilities of promoting civil society involvement and contribution towards sustainable energy. More...

6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Riga, Latvia. 15th -20th June 2010. The SLSA-EU 2010 conference was dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through technoscience and networked media. Markus Schmidt from IDC participated on the conference through his work focused on Biopalimpsest and on the overwriting of diverse and apparently unrelated knowledge flows induced by the superposition of biological disciplines or models, and their cultural impact (molecular biology, ecology, animal/plant studies. etc). More...

Seminar: « Technologies convergentes : enjeux et perspectives ». Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. 8th June 2010. Organized by the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) and the French Ministery of Industry, the seminar was based on the convergent sciences of nanotechnology, biotechnology, technologies of the information and Cognitives Sciences. As biotechnology expert, the IDC member Dr. Markus Schmidt took part with a speech during the seminar. More...

TA'10 Die Ethisierung der Technik und ihre Bedeutung für die Technikfolgenabschätzung. Vienna, Austria. 31st May - 1st June. As representative of IDC, Dr. Markus Schmidt participated on the event in one of the parallel workshops about Synthetic Biology (PARALLELWORKSHOP 1a - "Ethische Aspekte der Synthetischen Biologie") with his paper "Synthetische Biologie: Ethik und Forschungsförderung in Europa". More...

TARPOL Summer Course: Synthetic Biology. Valencia, Spain. 19th - 23rd April 2010. As part of the project TARPOL, the program of the course combined the expertise of the organizers about Synthetic Biology to train scientists from an interdisciplinary perspective in a wide range of fields. Among the specialists, the IDC member Dr. Markus Schmidt developed a talk about Synthetic Biology: "Ethical and philosophical debate about synthethic biology". More...

Living Technology Workshop. Lousiana, Denmark. 25th - 26th March 2010. Organized by the Prof. Mark Bedau, the workshop was part of the activities of the ISSP (The Initiative for Science, Society, and Policy) who aimed to take stock of the state of the art in living technology and recommend priorities for the socially responsible scientific pursuit of living technology. In collaboration with this group, Dr. Markus Schmidt took part on the event that take place on the Louisiana Museum. More...

Symposium: Synthetic biology!. Wageningen, Holland. 23rd March 2010. Organized by the group M.S.V. Alchimica the one-day symposium dealt with the different aspects of Synthetic Biology. As expert, the IDC member Dr. Lei Pei participated on the event with her paper "Risk assesment of Synthetic Biology". More...

Workshop on Synthetic Biology: From Science to Governance. Brussels, Belgium. 18th -19th March 2010. The aim of this workshop was to provide a clear overview of existing developments and to try to foresee the likely time-scale of future applications. Dr. Markus Schmidt attended to the event on behalf of IDC. More...

NSB Workshop. Cotswold Four Pillars Hotel, UK. 16th - 17th March 2010. As representant of IDC, Dr. Markus Schmidt took part on this international event organized by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. More...

2nd workshop on "Synthetic Genomics: Scientists' Understanding of Society's Concerns, Society's Understanding of the Science and Scientists". San Diego, USA. 23th - 24th February 2010. The IDC member Dr. Markus Schmidt made a presentation during this event that took place in the prestigious Craig Venter Institute of San Diego. More...

Austrian-Chinese workshop on synthetic biology and biosafety. Beijing, China. 20 January 2010. Markus Schmidt (IDC, Austria) and Wei Wei (IBCAS, China) organized a workshop regarding biosafety and risk assessment needs of synthetic biology in Europe and China. The workshop was part of the bilateral Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Joint Project "Investigating the biosafety and risk assessment needs of synthetic biology in Austria and China". More...