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Euroscience Open Forum 2012 (ESOF 2012)

Europe’s Largest General Science Conference

Europe’s largest multi-disciplinary Science conference; Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), comes to the Convention Centre Dublin this July. A large pull in the decision to award Dublin the opportunity to host ESOF 2012, is the rich cultural and artistic heritage that Ireland has to offer. To celebrate holding this prestigious event, Dublin has been self declared ‘City of Science’, will hold a calendar of events for 2012, and a ‘Science in the City’ festival that showcases both our scientific and artistic culture. But what is our centrepiece event - ESOF 2012 - all about?

What is ESOF?

ESOF – Euroscience Open Forum – is the biennial pan-European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation. At ESOF, leading scientists, researchers, business people, entrepreneurs, innovators, policy makers, science and technology communicators, and the general public from all across Europe discuss new discoveries and debate the direction that research is taking in the sciences.

The main event will be held in the Convention Centre Dublin and will attract over 5,000 scientists, business leaders, senior EU and Government officials, and the international and scientific media to discuss the best of European science. The programme will cover all of the current major global scientific challenges, including Health, Food, Energy and Climate Change. It will also look at fundamental issues such as The Life and Death of the Universe, Who are we?, Where did we come from?, and Where we are going?

Some of the Keynote Speakers at ESOF 2012:

Rolf-Dieter Heuer - Director General CERN

Craig Venter – J Craig Venter Institute – Synthetic Biology

Jean-Jacques Dordain - Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA)

Charles Bolden – Administrator of NASA

Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Discovered the first radio pulsars

Peter Doherty – Awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology (1996)

Jules Hoffmann – Awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology (2011)

James Watson – Awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology (1962)

Mary Robinson – Former President of Republic of Ireland and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

Bob Geldof – Human Rights and Political Activist

Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn – European Commissioner for Research, Innovation

Early Bird Registration

The ESOF 2012 programme will be officially launched in Vancouver later this month at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference. Early Bird Registration is now open for Europe’s Largest General Science Conference! www.esof2012.org