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Happy International Women’s Day
RadoNorm would like to wish all women engaged in radiation protection around the world a very happy International Women’s Day 2023! We are especially grateful for all our female students, scientists and colleagues who help make RadoNorm a success.
Renowned Risk Governance Expert Prof. Ortwin Renn Visits RadoNorm’s WP6 to Tackle Societal Challenges of Radon and NORM Management
WP6 of RadoNorm recently hosted a scientific visit by Prof. Ortwin Renn. The WP6 team has achieved all expected milestones, but still faces some challenges for instance in investigating radiological risk perception related to geothermal energy installations or...
RICOMET 2023 Conference
As in previous years, RadoNorm is co-organiser of the RICOMET 2023 conference. The 9th international conference on Social Sciences and Humanities in Ionising Radiation Research (RICOMET2023) will take place in Dessel, Belgium on 30 August – 1 September 2023....
A great success for the RadoNorm citizen science call for proposals
RadoNorm's citizen science call for proposals is now closed and 18 applications have been received from across 11 European Union Member States and associated countries. The applicants range from universities, research institutes, civic groups, SMEs and authorities....
RadoNorm presented at the Etmaal conference of Communication Sciences
One of the WP6 PhD students, S. Apers, presented the study entitled “Co-Designing Communication: A Design Thinking Approach Applied to Radon Health Communication in Belgium and Slovenia” on behalf of co-authors H. Vandebosch, T. Perko and N. Zeleznik, at the Etmaal...
Open call for citizen science projects: Deadline 17 February 2023
RadoNorm has held two webinars to discuss the open call for funding citizen science projects: the first on 7 November 2022 (European Radon Day) and the second on 17 January 2023. Click on the links above to view the recordings. The deadline for the submission of...
New job opportunity: Postdoctoral researcher for citizen science in the field of radon risk management
RadoNorm includes the following task “Establishment of a citizen science (CS) incubator for radon priority areas and establishment of a network of citizen science projects to address radon testing and mitigation”. This task will provide the model and support for...
Determining uranium speciation in soils and sediments impacted by weathering acid forming alum shale
PhD student Mila Kristiina Pelkonen and research scientist Estela Reinoso-Maset, both from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and postdoctoral researcher Gianni Vettese, from the University of Helsinki (UH), have recently been at one of the newest, most...
25 years at the Center for Environmental Sciences at UHasselt
On Tuesday January 24th, the Center for Environmental Sciences CMK of the University Hasselt celebrated its 25th anniversary. Among the attendees were many prominent guests, such as Belgian federal minister Zakia Khattabi and IPBES General Secretary Anne Larigauderie,...
MIGRATION 2023 Conference
The RadoNorm partners Subatech-CNRS (France) and KIT (Germany) are jointly involved in organising the next MIGRATION 2023 conference on 24th to 29th September 2023. The MIGRATION conferences provide an international forum for the timely exchange of scientific...
New postdoctoral researcher position at University of Helsink
The University of Helsinki seeks to recruit a post-doctoral researcher / university researcher to develop knowledge on naturally occurring radionuclide (NOR) biogeochemistry and fractionation during mine bio-heap leaching. The work is part of the EU RadoNorm project....
European Citizen Science Collaboration Group
European Citizen Science Collaboration Group On 24 January 2023, the first meeting of the European Citizen Science (ECS) Collaboration Group was set up. RadoNorm is represented in this group by the coordinator of the citizen science initiatives in RadoNorm, Dr....