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CASCADE Open Forum 2008  in Brussels

"Endocrine disruption - present health threats and future research needs"

Joint action to identify knowledge gaps 

The purpose of the CASCADE Open Forum was to identify knowledge gaps and research needs in the area of endocrine disrupting chemicals. During one day, more than 100 participants have been gathered for speeches, work shops, podcast video taping, interviews, networking and visionary discussions on the theme “Endocrine disruption – present health threats and future research needs”.  

 

 

 

Over 100 meeting participants

CASCADE Open Forum attracted more than 100 representatives from eight reserach projects, US-EPA, OECD, Cefic, EFSA, European Commission, industry and NGOs. The meeting took place at Radisson SAS Royal in Brussels the 2nd of October.

 

If you would like to see more pictures from the meeting, please have a look in our meeting photo gallery.

 

17 stimulating speakers

CASCADE Open Forum included 17 great speakers. Their power point presentations may be down loaded for free as pdf-files here.

 

 

 

 

Dr Andrea Tilche, Head of unit DG Research spoke about European Union funded research project in the area of Endocrine Disruption 


Interviews, talks and fruitful discussions

 

During CASCADE Open Forum, there was also time for scientific presentations and discussions. 


This picture is from the meeting lunch, which included poster presentations.

 

Conversing here are speaker Dr Robert Kavlock from US-EPA, Vice Coordinator of CASCADE Ingemar Pongratz, Dr Ebba Barany from DG RTD, European Commission and Bart van Der Burg from BioDetection Systems who also was one of the speakers at CASCADE Open Forum.

 


 

CASCADE Communication manager Jill Jönsson interviewing Dr Robert Kavlock, US-EPA

 

 

With kind support from Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) video pod cast interviews with some of the speakers during CASCADE Open Forum where done.

 

This resulted in a complete new tool for dissemination for CASCADE - a CASCADE Channel at YouTube. Here you can watch interviews with the speakers of CASCADE Open Forum. The idea is to put all future TV and videos of CASCADE here.


 

Opinion paper

The outcome of the meeting was a Strategic Agenda which clearly defined the mutual needs, interests and expectations in main activities areas: research, education and risk assessment.

 

This document is entitled “Challenges in future European endocrine disruption research – outlining identified research needs and opportunities” and it is signed by representatives from all the eight organizing projects.

 

We here point out major knowledge gaps and suggest solution to solve the remaining uncertainties in this field.


Down load "Challenges in future European endocrine disruption research"

 

 

Meeting material

You will find all meeting material, such as the presentations, the programme and meeting description, and the press invitation for free down load here.
 

More information?

Please contact Jill Jönsson, Communication manager CASCADE at jill.jonsson@ki.se or +46 70 56 39 565 if you have any questions. 

 

Organizers

CASCADE Open Forum was a joint activity, organized by eight leading EU-funded projects: ATHON, BioCop, CAESAR, CASCADE, CRESCENDO, NewGeneris, ReProTect.and SME-RECEPOR