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HiWATE: Final Conference and Open Day 22-24 Feb 2010

The Final Conference and Open Day event was well attended opportunity to dissiminate Project findings and engage with stakeholders.
Attached is a List of delegates who attended the Open Day.
Summary and extracts from the day - to follow

HiWATE Open Day 23rd Feb 2010 Feed back survey

Dear Delegates,
It was a pleasure to have you attend the HiWATE Open Day earlier this week23rd Feb 2010.

We hope you enjoyed the day and would greatly appreciate your feedback on your experience of this event please use the link below to let us know your thoughts - (the survey takes less than 10 mins)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/679J6Z2

A summary of the day and abstracts from the sessions will be available in due course from this website.

HiWATE Open Day Flyer: 23 February London 2010

The HiWATE project flyer for Open Day 23 February London 2010. Please click on the event link for more information:
Registration information

Sending science down the phone: new technology will map research across the world

New mobile phone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists working in the field to analyse their data remotely and map findings across the world, without having to return to the lab, according to research published in PLoS One. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London, say the software will also enable members of the public to act as 'citizen scientists' and help collect data for community projects.
Please see file attachment for full article.

HiWATE Annual Meeting - Room C115 & C116, Health Sciences Building, UCD Dublin

The HiWATE Annual Meeting Shall take place on: Tuesday 25th August 2009, UCD, Dublin in rooms C115 (Breakout room) and C116

Please see  attachements for agenda, maps and the events page more information.

ISEE Conference 2009 in Dublin (August 25-29) Abstract submission deadline extended

The closing date for abstracts for the 2009 ISEE conference in Dublin (August 25-29) has been extended for one week.

All abstracts must now be received by Monday March 23rd.

Remember, the meeting covers the full spectrum of environmental epidemiology, with a special emphasis on our theme 'Food, Environment and Global Health'. Full details are on the conference website at http://www.isee2009.ie/registration/abstracts/

2nd European Water Conference 2009 will be held in Brussels from 2- 3 April 2009

The conference invites decision makers and stakeholders from across the EU to discuss strategic water management issues and to actively participate in the process (external link).

Conference aims:

TECHNEAU Conference will be held in Maastricht, Netherlands, from 17-19 June, 2009

TECHNEAU • Safe Drinking Water from Source to Tap • State-of-the-Art and Perspectives

The 5th World Water Forum will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 16 to 22 March 2009.

The World Water Forum is the main water-related event in the world, aimed at putting water firmly on the international agenda. A stepping stone towards global collaboration on water problems, the Forum offers the water community and policy-and-decision-makers from all over the world the unique opportunity to come together to create links, debate and attempts to find solutions to achieve water security. It is organised every three year by the World Water Council, in collaboration with the host country.

ENTERICOS a case-control study of colon cancer in Spain Receives extra funding from Spanish Ministy of Health to continue study

A coordinated project between ICO (PI Víctor Moreno) and CREAL (PI Cristina Villanueva), ENTERICOS (Disinfection by-products and other environmental, genetic and molecular determinants of colorectal cancer