What is the UK doing about climate change?
Speaker: Professor Robert Wilby - Climate Change Science Manager, Environment Agency
time: 1230 to 1530
date: 20 September
place: British Council Videoconference studio
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European Researcher’s Night
22 September 2006 has been announced as European Researchers Night. This is the second year in which the European Commission is celebrating science and scientific achievement through a series of public events. Bulgaria will take part in the celebrations through a consortium of several universities and the Union of Scientists.
We will be organising
three simultaneous Café Scientifique sessions by video conference
which will link 3 separate audiences in Bulgaria
with 3 scientists in the UK
and 3 other Southeast European audiences (Macedonia, Greece and Kosovo).

Designer Babies - the ethics of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
Speaker and facilitator: Dr. Tom Shakespeare - Bioscience Centre, Newcastle University
time: 1800 to 2000
date: 22 September
place: Sofia (with Prishtina)
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to reserve a place contact Lyubov Kostova

Cutting CO2 emissions from UK housing
Speaker: Gavin Killip - Senior Researcher, Environmental Change Institute
Facilitator: Martin Westwell - Deputy Director, Institute for the Future of the Mind
time: 1800 to 2000
date: 22 September
place: Varna (with Skopje)
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to reserve a place contact Lyubov Kostova

Deflecting an Asteroid
Speaker: Sima Adhya – Technology, QinetiQ
Facilitator: Dr. David Booth - evolutionary biologist, post-doctoral researcher at Queen’s University of Belfast
time: 1800 to 2000
date: 22 September
place: Sofia (with Athens)
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to reserve a place contact Lyubov Kostova