Attached to the yearly Akzo Nobel Science Award, this year also a poster competition for young scientists took place. The theme of this competition was 'Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges through Science & Innovation'.
After a strong preselection, Soumi Banerjee, PhD student of the Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science (PCC) group of Wageningen University and her MSc student Pieter Mulder made it to the final, together with 4 other competers.

We are looking for enthusiastic PhD students to organize a Young Scientist Session at the 6th international symposium on science, implementation and policy aspects of non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGG-6), to be held in Amsterdam, 2-4 November 2011. NCGG-6 aims to remove barriers between policy, industry and science and fosters the dialogue between scientists, engineers and officials in industry and government. You are free to shape the session according to your wishes, as long as it fits in the NCGG-6 program. The session can include presentations and workshops on new scientific findings, or on what it takes to be a young scientist. Suggestions for the scientific focus of the session include - Sources and sinks of non-CO2 greenhouse gases - Atmospheric processes - Policy implementation - Integration - Integrated assessments - Environmental modeling - Stakeholder perspectives - etcetera, etcetera

SENSE Researcher Lars Hein (Environmental Systems Analysis group, Wageningen University) has been awarded with a prestigious research grant from the European Research Council (ERS).

The ERC grants are the European equivalent of the Veni, Vidi and Vici grants of the Dutch NWO. They are given to promising top researchers with an outstanding CV and research proposal.

Lars Hein receives the grant for his proposal 'EcoSpace: Spatial-Dynamic Modelling of Adaptation Options to Climate Change at the Ecosystem Scale'.

The journal Environmental Science and Policy has published a special issue on ‘Socio-technical Experiments in Asia – A Driver for Sustainability Transition?'. The special issue is edited by Frans Berkhout, Geert Verbong, and Anna J. Wieczorek. The papers are available online via Science Direct: www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14629011.

ClubGreen is an initiative to let people gain knowledge about topics that deal with sustainability, health and awareness. ClubGreen especially wants to share up to date information from trustworthy sources with a large audience. They cooperate with experts from universities and research institutes. Several SENSE researchers already contributed to the ClubGreen website (www.clubgreen.nl). ClubGreen has now asked SENSE to promote cooperation with ClubGreen and to ask people within our network to share their knowledge through the ClubGreen website. Especially for PhD students this can be a nice opportunity to communicate their research results to a larger audience.