The EuroVAlDiNet COST Action has opened a new call for oral or poster presentations at conferences (e.g., Baveno Conference – abstract results on February 15; EASL Congress – abstract results expected mid-March), focused on disseminating the Action’s activities and results. Researchers who plan to give a presentation at a high-level international conference between July 1,…
Month: September 2026
We are pleased to share that the presentations from The Paris PSVD Meeting, held on 4–5 December 2025, are now available online. This meeting brought together experts and researchers to discuss the latest advances, clinical insights, and ongoing challenges in the field of porto-sinusoidal vascular disease (PSVD). You can access all the presentations from the…
On January 20 and 21, 2026, PermaCOST held its first General Meeting in Potsdam, Germany. In total, 35 people participated on site, and 12 people attended online. Over two full days of plenary and group sessions, we had intense discussions on permafrost monitoring in Europe and beyond, contributing to shape the upcoming activities of the…
PermaCOST members are invited to apply for financial support to short-term scientific missions (STSM) fulfilling the PermaCOST mission and Working Groups objectives. A short-term scientific mission (STSM) is a visit to a host organization located in a different country by a researcher or innovator to conduct a specific piece of work for a determined period…
On June 01-04, 2026, a PermaCOST workshop on ‘Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) Surveying on Permafrost’ was conducted at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. The workshop brought together 22 people from academia, national authorities and private companies from 10 countries (CH, CZ, DE, DK, FR, IT, NO, PT, RO, UK), together with a few local students.…
Between August 31st and September 7th, 19 PhD and MSc students, from 12 countries, participated to the first PermaCOST Training School in Trafoi (Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy). During seven intense days of field excursions, lectures and exercises, the participants learnt about the periglacial context of the area and were trained to apply various tools…
The European Security Studies Conference 2026 came to a close on 12 June at Stockholm University, after two days of panels and roundtables jointly hosted by NetSec, the European Initiative for Security Studies (EISS), and Stockholm University. It was the first edition to run under the ESSC name, following the NetSec Early-Career Scholars Summer School…
Working Group 2's one-day policy workshop, Great Power Politics and the Future of Alliances, took place at Bilkent University in Ankara on 13 September 2026. Scholars and policy practitioners spent the day examining how alliance politics is evolving under intensifying great power competition, and what that evolution means for European security. Accommodation in Ankara and…
From the mid-16th to the mid-18th century, Jesuits played a major role in shaping European perceptions of India, influencing much of what Europeans read and discussed about the region. No other European institution in the early modern period produced as many texts, published as much material, circulated as many ideas, and shaped more concepts about…
On June 29th and 30th, the workshop “Cultural Heritage and Visual Representations of India” will take place at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal. The workshop is co-organised by the European Research Council Project ID-SCAPES – Building Identity: Religious Architecture and Sacral Landscapes of Christian Minorities in India and Bangladesh and the COST…
