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A/Prof Karine Dupre from Griffith University, AFRAN member and member of the recently founded AFRAN Bushfire and Natural Hazard Community, is leading the Bushfire Stories Project. The 2019-2020 bushfires were devastating. Not only did they burn forests, farms, buildings to a greatest extent ever recounted, but they also took the life of 34 people and more than a billion of animals (CDP, 2020). In Queensland specifically, more than half of the Gondwana world heritage rainfores

Hello AFRAN NSW! Firstly, to introduce myself- my name is Andrew and I am the new NSW Hub Leader for AFRAN. I would like to invite you all to an informal AFRAN NSW event at the end of November. On Thursday 26th November we will visit the new Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. This new museum houses the University’s collection of scientific, artistic, historic and cultural collections in a brand new contemporary building. We will meet in front of the museum at

This seminar series, organised by Jasmin Packer, AFRAN member, focuses on how University of Adelaide researchers are finding solutions to key problems in the fields of ecology and evolution. Friday November 6 The history of public and private conservation funding in the United States: Jennie Weinhammer will discuss her study about conservation funding throughout history, using the United States as a case study Fungi – the quiet achievers: Pam Catcheside, mycologist and Honora

Grants of up to A$10,000 are available to support digital collaborative research projects with Asia–Pacific regional partner economies for Australian early- and mid-career researchers. The Australian Academy of science invites applications for the Regional Collaborations Programme COVID-19 digital grants. The grants will support projects that utilise digital methods of collaboration to address shared regional challenges that either directly or indirectly relate to the COVID-1

Thursday 5th November 2020, 7 pm to 8 pm, Melbourne Unravelling the cancer puzzle from an ecological and evolutionary perspective – an Australian and French International Associated Laboratory Professor Frédéric Thomas (CNRS), France Associate Professor Beata Ujvari, Deakin University Cancer is not only a major cause of mortality worldwide that touches nearly every family, but also a disease which affects all other multicellular organisms. Oncology as a scientific field has,

Deadline 22 November 2020 A call for projects is launched by the permanent Secretariat for the Pacific, with the view to select projects susceptible to be funded in 2021 by the "Fund for economic, social and cultural cooperation for the Pacific ", or "Fonds Pacifique". The selected projects will contribute to the regional insertion of the French communities: New Caledonia, French Polynesia and islands Wallis and Futuna. Projects submitted for this call by Australian partners

Vanessa Castejon (Sorbonne Paris Nord) and Salhia Ben Messahel (Université de Toulon) are the guest-editors of the last issue of JEASA, Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, released in September 2020. Scholars from Australia and Europe in Australian studies (Ann Curthoys, Simone Lazaroo, Arianna Grasso, Isa Menzies, Prudence Black, Janine Hauthal, Mitchell Rolls), wrote in this JEASA issue on Alter/Native Spaces. Download the issue Foreword by the gue

Deadline for application: 5th of November 2020 Are you a European SME owner developing innovative products or services using Earth Observation applied to marine and maritime domains ? Are you interested to promote your company and products internationally meeting potential customers and partners ? Join the internationalisation programme designed by the SpaceWave Alliance ! 30 European SMEs will be selected to go global in the following countries: Australia, Canada, South Afri

Webinar 4:00PM – 5:00PM AEST THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2020 The Centre for Transformative Innovation, Factory of the Future, Advanced Manufacturing Industry 4.0 Hub & the Social Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology, invite you to this public webinar panel discussion which will examine the experiences of Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies. The panel will discuss their own Industry 4.0 journey and their experiences i