EURAMED News

The European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) has just published a EURAMED article prepared by Prof. Catharine West (EURAMED Secretary) in the society’s newsletter. You can access the article here.

The EURAMED rocc-n-roll project: European medical application and radiation protection concept: strategic research agenda and roadmap interlinking to health and digitisation aspects The 3-year EURAMED rocc-n-roll project aims to propose an integrated and coordinated European approach to research and innovation in medical applications of ionising radiation and related radiation protection based on stakeholder consensus and … Read more

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) division of Radiological Protection and Human Aspects of Nuclear Safety (RP-HANS) is looking for a Junior Radiological Protection Specialist. RP-HANS conducts a range of activities and technical research in coordination with experts from participating countries in order to enhance public health, radiological protection, stakeholder engagement, education and nuclear safety culture. … Read more

Read the article “EURAMED: promoting medical radiation protection through research as major goal” by Christoph Hoeschen (Chair of the EURAMED Scientific Committee) published in ECR Today, the newspaper of the European Congress of Radiology here. Please note that this article was originally written for publication at the onsite ECR 2020 date in March, but only … Read more

Due to Covid-19 protective measures the RICOMET 2020 (Conference on Risk Perception, Communication and Ethics of Exposures to Ionising Radiation) will be reorganized as Pre-RICOMET 2020 with dedicated web events. Topics of the Pre-RICOMET 2020 conference are: Radon air pollution in co-organisation with SHARE, ERA and IAEA (registration will be open via Zoom in August) … Read more

The 45th Annual Meeting of the European Radiation Research Society (ERRS2020) will be held as a virtual conference broadcasted from Lund on 13- 17 September 2020. The ERRS2020 will begin on Sunday, 13 September with an opening ceremony. In the following week, from 14-17 September, the scientific programme will contain plenary sessions, 2 parallel sessions, … Read more

The Board of Directors of the European Society of Radiology has decided not to hold an onsite European Congress of Radiology in 2020. However, ECR 2020 will go ahead as an online congress taking place on July 15-19, 2020. The programme is available here: https://www.myesr.org/congress/scientific-programme  

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated uncertainties, impact and repercussions at multiple levels, the Scientific and Organizing Committees of ERPW2020 decided, together with the European research platforms, to postpone the Conference to 2021. Although it is premature at this stage to decide on a new date and venue, a possibility would be 27 … Read more

EURAMED is pleased to announce that the 3-year EURAMED rocc-n-roll project was invited to grant preparation by the European Commission. A big achievement for the medical radiation protection community and for EURAMED! The project aims to propose an integrated and coordinated European approach to research and innovation in medical applications of ionising radiation and related … Read more

It is with a profound sadness that the EURAMED Executive Board announces the unexpected passing of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dörr, EURAMED Secretary, at the age of 59 last Saturday, October 12, 2019. During his long and distinguished career, Prof. Dörr was a tireless practitioner and advocate of radiobiological research. For more than 30 years, he … Read more