16 January 2014

SUMMER SCHOOL: Societal Dimensions of Synbio


Participatants will present and discuss their own work with the other participants and these leading researchers: Michael Bölker, Nediljko Budisa, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Christian Illies, Rafael Pardo Avellaneda, and Georg Toepfer. The summer school will take place at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin. It will include an excursion to Nediljko Budisa´s laboratory for chemical synthetic biology at TU Berlin and close with a public discussion.

To apply please send an abstract of 400 words or less describing the paper that you would present, and a CV by 10 March 2014 to:
Kristin Hagen, Europäische Akademie GmbH, Wilhelmstr. 56, 53474 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany; or via e-mail to: kristin.hagen@ea-aw.de.

Successful applicants will be reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses. Participants will also be expected to submit a manuscript for publication as a book chapter, for which a honorarium of € 300 will be paid.

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