EVENTS

HBM4EU Events

Events in 2019:

• February 12th : 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
• June 17th -21st:-3rd HBM4EU Training Event, Brno, Czechi
• September: Focus group discussion on chemical safety with members of  the public. Dublin, Ireland
• October: Focus group discussion on chemical safety with members of the public. London, UK
• Wednesday, 9^th October 2019: 3^rd Consortium Meeting
• Thursday, 10^th October 2019: 3^rd Stakeholder Forum meeting
• Thursday, 10^th October 2019: 3^rd Advisory Board meeting
• Friday, 11^th October 2019: 3^rd Governing Board meeting
• Q4: 4th HBM4EU Training Event, venue to be decided

Events in 2018:

• 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, Vienna, Austria & 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

 External 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 2019:

• 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
• April: 11 – 12 April, Climatico 2019 (International Conference on Climate Chanfe in the Mediterranean), Limassol, Cyprus
• 21 May 2019 – Pint of Science Festival. Outreach to citizens with the presentation “Chemicals: Good Bad and the Ugly “
• 23 May 2019 –  International Symposium of Environmental Medicine 2019. Taipei, Taiwan
• 23 and 24 May – International Conference on “Integrated Problem-Solving Approaches to Ensure Schoolchildren’s Health”, organized in the frame of the InAirQ project (Transnational Adaption Actions for Integrated Indoor Air Quality Management). Budapest, Hungary
• 26 – 30 May SETAC Europe 29^th annual meeting – Helsinki, Finland
• 6 – 8 June: Ecsite Annual Conference 2019 “Pushing Boundaries”, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 4th – 5th July: ISES Europe (Europe Regional Chapter of the International Society of Exposure Science). INSA to present on “The use of effect biomarkers in human biomonitoring studies: exposure to hexavalent chromium”. RIVM (Bilthoven, NL)
• 7th – 8th June. Conference of the Estonian Society of Toxicology on Environmental chemicals and human biomonitoring. UBA to present on HBM4EU.
• 18 – 22 August 2019: ISES-ISIAQ 2019 – Joint conference of International Societies of Exposure Science (ISES) and Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) “The built, natural, and social environments: impacts on exposures, health and well-being”, Kaunas, Lithuania. HBM4EU will have a symposium. And Dr Marike Kolossa-Gehring, (UBA, German EPA) will be one of the plenary speakers: “Coordinating and advancing human biomonitoring in Europe with HBM4EU – Pulling together cultures, legislations and perspectives”
• 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, Polland
• 25th September 2019, PFAS Working Group meeting at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki, Finland
• 26 – 27 September 2019, ICFC2019 (3rd International Conference on Food Contaminants) – Challenges on Risk Assessment, Aveiro, Portugal
• October: Meeting of the Polish Society of Industrial Hygienists, Hungary
• 20 – 23 November: European Public Health Conference, Marseille, France. Talk on the added value of combining health surveys and HBM studies.
• 27 and 28 November on “Carcinogenic roadmap”, Helsinki, Finland
• 3^rd and 4^th December – “Planetary Health”, Helsinki (Finland). HBM4EU will be under the session on ‘Environmental and emerging exposures – for good and bad’. Talk presented by UBA on “The chemical challenge – how human biomonitoring can help’

Events in 2018:

• 18-21 April 2018: 10th Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries and the 12th Serbian Congress of Toxicology, Belgrade, Serbia
• 29-30 May 2018: 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 2018: PPTOX VI Conference, Faroe Islands, Denmark
• 9-14 July 2018: ESOF – EuroScience Open Forum, Toulouse, France
• 26-30 August 2018: 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 2018: The EFSA 2018 Conference, European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy
• 30 – 31 October 2018: European Environment Agency’s National Reference Centre Meeting in Environment and Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 19 – 23 November 2018: Second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP2), Geneva, Switzerland
• 13 December 2018: FRAM-seminar – EU research and policies on combined exposure to mixtures of chemicals,  Gothenburg, Sweden

Events in 2017:

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