The mission of the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) is to provide both the European and the international science communities with an open platform for debate and communication. It presents and profiles Europe’s leading research trends in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is an opportunity to discuss and influence the future of research and innovation in Europe. The scientific programme for ESOF08, “Science for a better life”, to be held in Barcelona from 18 to 22 July, has just been finalized, and is made up of 83 scientific sessions from 10 scientific themes, 10 career sessions and 70 outreach activities, with the participation of more than 450 speakers and session organizers from 30 countries. The final scientific programme schedule and list of speakers is available at the ESOF website or can be downloaded here as a 97KB PDF. Among the speakers and organisers of the sessions are Philip Campbell, Editor in Chief of Nature publications and Editor of Nature, who will be talking in the session “Sharing scientific data: who benefits?”; Alison Abbott, Nature‘s senior European correspondent, who is organizing a session “Looking inside your brain”; and Karl Ziemelis, Nature’s chief physical sciences editor, who is organizing the session “An organic revolution”.

You can register for the conference here. There is a reduced fee for participants who register before 15 March (tomorrow).