Sciences & Cocktails #17 : New breeding technologies for a climate resilient and eco-friendly agriculture

mardi 25 fĂ©vrier 2020 @ 20h30 > 22h00 – How can we feed the world? Will we be able to feed 9.8 billion people in 2050? How will climate change affect global food security? Can agriculture become more eco-friendly while maintaining high productivity? Professor of plant biology Dirk InzĂ© will kick off the first Science and cocktails in 2020 with his insights on the […]

Pint of Science – Launch event

mardi 17 avril 2018 @ 19h00 > 22h30 – A pint before the Pint? Don’t miss the Belgian launch event of the largest science festival in the world! This May, the Pint of Science festival comes to Belgium for the first time to bring you the best of Belgian science, delivered directly to your local bar. To celebrate and to give you a taste […]

Science & Cocktails #9 : Anthropocene and its victims – Climate change, refugees and borders

mardi 4 dĂ©cembre 2018 @ 20h30 > 23h30 – Will climate change drive mass migration to Europe? Is it possible to control and manage migration? What’s the best way to address climate-induced migration? In August of 2016, the Working Group on the Anthropocene presented a recommendation to the International Geological Congress that a new geological epoch needs to be declared: the Anthropocene, or the […]

Science & Cocktails #2 : Looking for consciousness

mercredi 1 novembre 2017 @ 20h30 > 23h30 – What is consciousness? Where, if anywhere, is consciousness in the brain? What happens when you sleep? And if you are in coma? What is death and a near-death experience? For the second episode of Science & Cocktails in Brussels in the cool venue Atelier 210, we have a fantastic lecture on the understanding of consciousness […]