EVENTS

HBM4EU partners are introducing our exciting project to a range of audiences at a broad range of scientific conferences and events focused on sound chemicals management and public health.

Below is a list of events at which HBM4EU has been presented, as well as future events.

Events in 2020

HBM4EU participation in conferences and workshops

• 15 January: World Mycotoxin Forum, Bangkok, Thailand.
• 21 January: Presentation at the National Council on Chemicals Management
• 21 February: Exposome Workshop, Milan, Italy.
• 27 February: Working Group on Aspects of Empowerment, Inclusiveness and Equity in Citizen Science, of ECSA (European City Science Association). (outcome from the ECSITE 2019 conference with EEA)
• 5 – 6 March: NYC Exposome Symposium. “Measuring the Exposome Using Novel Methods and Big data to Improve Human Health”, New York, USA. https://www.sinaiexposomics.com/program
• 16-17 March: Nordic HBM Workshop 2020: “Nordic workshop for scientists and regulatory agencies discussing HBM4EU – The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative”, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 22 – 24 April: 10th-INCHES (10th International Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 3 – 7 May: SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland.
• 11 June: Netherlands Society of Toxicology (NVT) Annual Meeting. Theme: ‘“The (r)evolution of toxicological models – how to address safety in target species”,  The Netherlands.
• 23 – 27 August: ISEE Annual conference, Washington DC, USA
• 6 – 10 September: AIRMON, Bristol, UK.
• 20 – 21 September, ISES, Oakland

HBM4EU Events 2020

• 12 – 13 February, HBM4EU EFSA meeting, Parma (Italy).
• 28 September – 1 October, HBM4EU Annual week meeting in Berlin
• 2 October, HBMC2020 – Human Biomonitoring for science and chemical policy 2020
• 18 November, Portuguese National Hub – 3rd Workshop on Human Biomonitoring in Portugal

Events in 2019

HBM4EU participation in conferences and workshops

• 22 January: Biomonitoring – human and environmental perspectives at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, United Kingdom
• 22 – 23 February: HBM4EU presentation at the Environment Protection Agency Network meeting, Oslo, Norway
• 22 February: COST meeting
• 26 February: Presentation at the Annual Conference of the German Environmental Specimen Bank
• 11 – 12 April: Climatico 2019 International Conference on Climate Change in the Mediterranean, Limassol, Cyprus
• 6 – 8 May: 41st Mycotoxin Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal.
• 21 May: Pint of Science Festival. Outreach to citizens with the presentation Chemicals: Good Bad and the Ugly, UK
• 23 May:  International Symposium of Environmental Medicine 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
• 23 and 24 May: International Conference on Integrated Problem-Solving Approaches to Ensure Schoolchildren’s Health, Budapest, Hungary
• 26 – 30 May: SETAC Europe 29^th annual meeting, Helsinki, Finland
• 6 – 8 June: Ecsite Annual Conference 2019 Pushing Boundaries, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 7 – 8 June: Conference of the Estonian Society of Toxicology on Environmental chemicals and human biomonitoring, Estonia
• 18 June 2019, Presentation at DG SANTE-SCHEER, Brussels, Belgium
• 27 June, Spanish Congress of Toxicology (XXIII Congreso Español de Toxicología y VII Iberoamericano, Seville, Spain (26- 28 June 2019)
• 4 – 5 July: ISES Europe Europe Regional Chapter of the International Society of Exposure Science,  RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
• 5 july‚ Conference on Advances in Public Health Research. Institute of Biosanitary Research (ibs.GRANADA), Granada, Spain
• 18 – 22 August: ISES-ISIAQ 2019 – Joint conference of International Societies of Exposure Science (ISES) and Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), Kaunas, Lithuania
• 25 – 28 August: The 31st annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2019) , Utrecht, the Netherlands
• 28 – 30 August: 11th International Symposium on Biological Monitoring in Occupational and Environmental Health (ISBM-11), Leuven, Belgium
• 8 – 11 September: EUROTOX 2019 – 55th Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology, Helsinki, Finland
• 8 – 13 September: ICMGP 2019 – The 14^th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Krakow, Poland
• 25th September: PFAS Working Group meeting at the European Chemicals Agency, Helsinki, Finland
• 26 – 27 September: ICFC2019 3rd International Conference on Food Contaminants – Challenges on Risk Assessment, Aveiro, Portugal
• 8 – 11 October: Europe Biobank Week 2019 at MuK, Lübeck, Germany
• October: Meeting of the Polish Society of Industrial Hygienists, Hungary
• 25 October: 2nd HBM-PT Workshop on Human Biomonitoring, Portugal
• 30 October: ‘Information day, Centre of Endocrine Disrupting  substances (CeHoS)”, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 30 – 31 October: upcoming High Tech Summit to be held at DTU, during a session on chemicals. Focus is on big data and digitalisation, Denmark
• 5 – 8 November: ”9th International Symposium on recent Advances in Food Analysis” (RAFA 2019), Prague, Czech Republic
• 11 – 13 November: EU-OSHA campaign Healthy Workplaces Manage Dangerous Substances, EU OSHA, Bilbao, Spain
• 14 November: ADEREST (Épidémiologie en santé au travail), France
• 14 November: Jornada Científica Ciberesp 2019, Madrid, Spain
• 15 November: CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica, The Spanish National Health Institute Carlos III , Madrid, Spain
• 21 November: Science and policy making in Portugal, Portugal
• 20 – 23 November: European Public Health Conference, Marseille, France
• 27 – 28 November: Carcinogenic roadmap, Helsinki, Finland: “Working together to eliminate occupational cancer”. Workshop 1: Biomonitoring exposure to occupational carcinogens at workplaces (together with HBM4EU).
• 28 November: BTS Oxfordshire regional event, England.
• 3 – 4 December: Planetary Health, Helsinki, Finland.

 HBM4EU Internal Events

• 12 February: Stakeholder consultation organised by the Israeli National Hub
• March: Israeli National Hub – Ministry of Health conference on Environmental Tobacco Smoke which will focus on HBM results and methods.
• May: Focus group discussion on chemical safety with members of the public. Lisbon, Portugal
• 19 – 21 June:-3rd HBM4EU Training Event, Brno, Czechia
• 24 September: Focus group discussion on chemical safety with members of  the public. Dublin, Ireland
• 01 October: Focus group discussion on chemical safety with members of the public. London, UK
• 9 October: 3^rd Consortium Meeting
• 10 October: 3^rd Stakeholder Forum meeting
• 10 October: 3^rd Advisory Board meeting
• 11 October: 3^rd Governing Board meeting

Events in 2018

HBM4EU participation in conferences and workshops

HBM4EU partners are introducing our exciting project to a range of audiences at a broad range of scientific conferences and events focused on sound chemicals management and public health. Below is a list of events at which HBM4EU has been presented.

• 18 – 21 April: 10th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries and the 12th Serbian Congress of Toxicology, Belgrade, Serbia
• 29 – 30 May: Advancing the Assessment of Chemical Mixtures and their Risks for Human Health and the Environment, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
• 2 – 3 May: AgriResearch Conference, Brussels, Belgium
• 27 – 30 May: PPTOX VI Conference, Faroe Islands, Denmark
• 9 – 14 July: ESOF – EuroScience Open Forum, Toulouse, France
• 26 – 30 August: ISES – ISEE 2018 – The Joint Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Ottawa, Canada
• 18 – 21 September: The EFSA 2018 Conference, European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy
• 30 – 31 October: European Environment Agency’s National Reference Centre Meeting in Environment and Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 19 – 23 November: Second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP2), Geneva, Switzerland
• 13 December: FRAM-seminar – EU research and policies on combined exposure to mixtures of chemicals,  Gothenburg, Sweden

HBM4EU Events

• February: Focus group discussion on chemical safety with members of the public in Austria, Vienna, Austria
• 8 February: Introductory presentation of HBM4EU to the European National Focal Points at the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen
• 6 March: Joint meeting of the Management Board and the EU policy Board on prioritisation, Brussels, Belgium
• 11 May: 1st Workshop on Human Biomonitoring in Lisbon, Portugal -“Bridging Chemical Exposure to Human Health”
• 29 – 30 May: Joint H2020 Workshop – Advancing the Assessment of Chemical Mixtures and their Risks for Human Health and the Environment, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, IT
• 14 – 15 June: Workshop: Linking HBM and health studies. What are possible opportunities and obstacles? Brussels, Belgium
• 20 June: Stakeholder workshop on priorities for a future HBM4EU initiative, Brussels, Belgium
• 13 September: National Hub Contact Point and Stakeholder Meeting, Netherlands
• 18 – 22 June: 1st HBM4EU Training Event, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 24 September: Workpackage meetings, Vienna, Austria
• 25 September: Consortium Meeting, Vienna, Austria
• 26 September: Meeting of the Stakeholder Forum, Meeting of the Advisory Board, Vienna, Austria
• 27 September: Meeting of the Governing Board, Vienna, Austria
• 28 September: Conference under the auspices of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union “Human Biomonitoring in Europe – science and policy for healthy citizens”, Vienna, Austria
• 8 – 9 November: EU Case Study Workshop – Workshop with EU policy makers and stakeholders on policy uptake of human biomonitoring data
• 15 – 16 November: Meeting of the Management Board, Berlin, Germany
• 19 – 23 November: 2nd HBM4EU Training Event, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• 3 December: HBM4EU French National Hub Meeting, Paris, France

Events in 2017

HBM4EU participation in conferences and workshops

• 4 – 5 April: MeTra Workshop, Berlin, Germany
• 27 April: Basel Convention COP13, Rotterdam Convention COP8 and Stockholm Convention COP8, Geneva, Switzerland
• 8 – 9 June: 2^nd Fresenius Mixtox Conference: Toxicity of Chemical Mixtures: Risk, Hazard and Exposure Assessment, Cologne, Germany
• 13 – 15 June: The Sixth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• 21 – 23 June: XIV Spanish and IV Iberoamerican Congress of Environmental Health, Zaragoza, Spain
• 13 – 15 September: Global Biobank Week 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
• 23 September: European Chemicals Agency Risk Assessment Committee (ECHA RAC), Helsinki, Finland
• October: Presentation at SCOEL
• 1 – 4 October: 10th International Symposium on Biological Monitoring, Naples, Italy
• 6 October: European Health Forum Gastein, Bad Gastein, Austria
• 10 – 11 October: Nordic Chemicals Summit, Innovations in Product Safety and Progressive Chemicals Management, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 15 – 19 October: International Society of Exposure Science, 27th Annual Meeting, North Carolina, USA
• 1 – 4 November: 10th European Public Health Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
• 17 November: Royal Society of Chemistry, Assessing and Managing Real Life Risks from Chemical Mixtures, London, UK
• 22 November: Swiss Public Health Conference, Personalised Health from a Public Health Perspective, Basel, Switzerland