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Launch of the PIANOFORTE European partnership: research and education for radiation protection
The European Partnership for Radiation Protection Research will contribute to improving the protection of the public, workers, patients and the [...]
First RadoNorm paper on citizen science and radon
Meritxell Martell together with Tanja Perko from SCK CEN (Belgium), Yevgeniya Tomkiv from NMBU (Norway), Stephanie Long and Alison [...]
Merience participates in the H2020 project RadoNorm
RadoNorm project under EURATOM Horizon 2020 aims at managing risk from radon and NORM exposure situations to assure effective [...]
EU-RAP project on radon action plans
DG Energy has commissioned a study to review and evaluate national radon action plans established in EU Member States according [...]
RICOMET 2020 edition is online
Merience is one of the organisations supporting the RICOMET annual conference on social sciences and humanities in ionising radiation research. This [...]
Transparency and stakeholder engagement in nuclear or radiological emergency management
The article "Transparency and stakeholder engagement in nuclear or radiological emergency management" written jointly by Dr. Tanja Perko, Dr. Meritxell [...]
SHARE Webinar: lessons we are learning from the COVID-19 pandemic for radiological risk communication
SHARE, the Platform on Social Sciences and Humanities in Ionising Radiation Research, invites you to JOIN US FOR a LIVE [...]
Sessió de reflexió canvi climàtic, canvi de llenguatge, 6 febrer, COAMB, Barcelona
El proper dijous 6 de febrer l'Ana Romero i la Meritxell Martell dirigiran un taller sobre el canvi de llenguatge [...]
Basic Safety Standards public information study published
Tanja Perko from SCK·CEN and Meritxell Martell from Merience carried out the "Study on good practices in implementing the requirements [...]
TEACHENER web platform available online
The TEACHENER project has officially ended. The web platform, the virtual learning environment which contains the EDUKIT is now on-line [...]
Metropolis Energy Governance (MEGA)
The final report of the Metropolis Energy Governance (MEGA) is now available. MEGA is an initiative of Barcelona Metropolitan Area in [...]
Campus Gutemberg, 16-17 September, Barcelona
The 9th edition of the Campus Gutemberg on communication and scientific culture will take place at Cosmocaixa (Barcelona) on 16-17 [...]
TEACHENER final conference, 27-28 June Gdansk
The final conference of the Erasmus+ TEACHENER project will take place in Gdansk on 27-28 June. The Conference «Social Sciences and Humanities [...]
TEACHENER Winter School held at UPC in Vilanova i la Geltrú
The Winter School, an activity of the Erasmus+ TEACHENER project took off on Monday 11th February, with 22 students coming from [...]
RICOMET 2019: 1-3 July in Barcelona
The conference, RICOMET 2019 - Social Science and Humanities in Ionising Radiation Research, will be hosted by ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for [...]
GUNi conference, 19-20 November 2018 in Barcelona
Meritxell Martell together with Piotr Stankiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland) participated in the International Conference on Humanities and Higher Education: [...]
Listening to local communities’ experiences on radioactive waste management at international level
Meritxell Martell together with Kathryn Shaver (Canada) will facilitate the Technical Meeting at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on [...]
BSS information & transparency in radiological emergencies
The consortium SCK·CEN/Merience is currently undertaking a study to assess good practices in implementing the requirements on public information and [...]
Metropolis Energy GovernAnce (MEGA)
Merience provides the technical secretariat of the project "Governance in the energy transition towards a low carbon society in metropolitan areas" (Metropolis [...]
Rural communities engaged with positive energy
Merience collaborates with Granollers city council in the coordination of knowledge transfer in the framework of the COMPOSE project. The aim [...]
Communication workshops in Kenya, Ghana, Seychelles and Zambia
Over the last month, Meritxell Martell has lectured in four training workshops coordinated by the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK·CEN (Belgium) in the framework of a [...]
Communication workshops in Africa
The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK·CEN is one of the largest research institutions in Belgium, employing 700 people working in three main research [...]
NEA workshop on stakeholder involvement in nuclear decision-making
The NEA workshop on stakeholder involvement in nuclear decision making took place from17-19 January 2017 in Paris. It brought together [...]
Visit to the CO2 injection experiment at Heletz, Israel
As the last TRUST EC funded project meeting, which took place in Haifa (Israel) on 9-10 January 2017, the project partners visited the Heletz [...]
TEACHENER kick off meeting
The first TEACHENER project meeting will take place in Torun (Poland) on 8-9 December 2016. MERIENCE is one of the seven [...]
CLIMATE METROPOLE +
Climate-Metropole +: cooperation and knowledge exchange towards an integrated and participatory approach to climate change adaptation was presented at the [...]
FINAL CONFERENCE CLIMATE METROPOLE +
The final conference of the Climate-Metropole + initiative will be held at the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona on 18th November 2016. [...]
MERIENCE: SPANISH PARTNER IN TEACHENER PROJECT with UPC
MERIENCE is one of the seven partners in TEACHENER, a project co-financed by the Erasmus + strategic partnerships programme of the European Commission, [...]
RADIATION PROTECTION WEEK 2016 in OXFORD
For the first time, the Radiation Protection Week (19-23 september 2016) brought together scientists and decision makers working on radiation protection, [...]
RADIATION PROTECTION WEEK
Merience will participate in the first Radiation Protection Week (19-23 september 2016) which will bring together complementary strands of radiation [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN LIVERPOOL
The 3rd Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies, Actions and Challenges workshop was held in Liverpool on 20-21 June 2016. The workshop involved participants representing Barcelona, [...]
IAEA TECHNICAL MEETING
Meritxell Martell is participating at the technical meeting held at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna from 13 [...]
RICOMET 2016
Meritxell Martell is member of the Conference Management Committee of RICOMET 2016, the Second International Conference on Risk Perception, Communication [...]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DECOMMISSIONING AND ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION IN MADRID, 23-27 MAY 2016
Merience has been invited to give a presentation on "societal constraints related to stakeholder involvement in environmental remediation and decommissioning [...]
CIDER report published
Merience contributed to drafting and reviewing the recently published IAEA report on "Advancing Implementation of Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation Programmes" as [...]
DR. MARTELL MEMBER OF THE HORIZON 2020 ADVISORY GROUP ON ENERGY
In 2016, Dr. Meritxell Martell has been invited to become of the Horizon 2020 Advisory Group on Energy (AGE). The [...]
ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN GRAND LYON
As part of the Climate Metropole + project, we visited Lyon on 8 and 9 February to learn about their [...]
ACCEPTANCE VERSUS OWNERSHIP IN SITING PROJECTS
Last summer we were invited to give a lecture at the 20th Salzburg Meeting of the REFORM group in Schloss [...]