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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 rainforests were burned, including the iconic Binna Burra Lodge. Our multidisciplinary research project is contributing to bushfire recovery and resilience and is jointly funded under the Commonwealth/State Disaster Recovery Fun

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 6pm and spend an hour or so looking at the collections before heading to a nearby bar for a drink and a snack. (Venue TBC but walking distance from the University in either Glebe or Chippendale). More information on the

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 Honorary Research Associate with South Australia’s State Herbarium, will discuss the healing role of fungi after fire. The registration is free and the link is at the bottom of the seminar website

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-19 pandemic response and recovery in the Asia–Pacific region. A total funding pool of over $250,000 will be shared between early-career (up to 10 years post PhD) and mid-career (up to 15 years post PhD) researchers. The p

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, until now, developed in relative isolation from ecological and evolutionary sciences. To overcome these caveats, the presenters established the “Cancer in Ecology and Evolution International Associated Laboratory (LIA)”

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 shall be submitted to the Embassy of France in Australia, by November the 22nd, 2020 (12 am Canberra time). To be eligible, the selected projects will have to fit in one of the following field: Projects allowing the Fren

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 guest-editors: The guest editors of Alter/Native Spaces seek to go beyond the postcolonial to examine how the prefix “alter” is linked both to the notion of an alternative and to the notion of multiplicity, and to explore h

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 Africa and United Arab Emirates. More information on this link

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 including the benefits and pitfalls of Industry 4.0 adoption within their industries. The panel will comprise the following members: Mond Qu, Founder and Director at United Make (UDMK) David Kaplan, Managing Director and