28 Oct

Tanngrisner 2, VHC, Ultuna, Uppsala

An introduction to the newly formed Swedish Academic Consortium for Chemical Safety (SwACCS)

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The logotype of Swaccs. Illustration.

We invite everybody at SLU who are engaged in research and lecturing in any aspect of chemicals, health and environment to introduce SwACCS. We will present and open a discussion on how SwACCS can best serve academia and society to meet the UN Sustainability, Swedish and EU goals for non-safe chemicals in relation to health and environment.

SwACCS should be built on the desires and wishes from all involved researchers and lecturers in academia. Thus, your engagement is instrumental. The program for this meeting is aimed:

  • to give both a perspective on how SwACCS has emerged and its overarching plan for the future.
  • to collect ideas and input from SLU researchers (basic and applied) and lecturers on how to work together to closeup on challenges related to “Chemicals-Health-Environment”.
  • to discuss how to improve higher education in order for professionals to develop the societal needs in this area.

The aim is to foment active participation by all. Discussions will start after the introduction by Professor Åke Bergman (SwACCS coordinator, Örebro University) who will highlight the former achievements of Swetox.

After the introduction, Swaccs’ vision, goals and possibilities will be presented followed by questions:

  • Research: Which are the values and possibilities with SwACCS? What’s in it for me/us?
  • Education: Which are the values and possibilities with SwACCS? What’s in it for SLU?
  • Societal interactions: Which are the values and possibilities with SwACCS?

Facts

Time: 2019-10-28 09:00 - 12:00
City: Uppsala
Location: Tanngrisner 2, VHC, Ultuna
Organiser: SwACCS
Additional info:

Swedish Research Center for Toxicology Sciences (Swetox) was a consortium consisting of 11 Swedish universities from 2014-2018. The infrastructure known as Swetox Södertälje, the KI unit, has been adopted by RISE while researchers moved to different academic institutions, primarily within KI (https://swetox.se/devsite/en/).

Due to the closure of Swetox, the Swedish Academic Consortium for Chemical Safety (SwACCS) has been formed and is now under development. SwACCS is coordinated from Örebro University with contact points at 13 Swedish universities, including all the 11 universities that previously were part of Swetox.

SwACCS representatives for SLU are Anders Glynn and Karin Wiberg.

Further information on the web: www.swaccs.se


Programme

9.00-9.05 Welcome
Anders Glynn, SLU
Karin Wiberg, SLU

9.05-9.45 Introduction SWETOX -> SwACC
Åke Bergman, SwACCS coordinator, Örebro University

9.45-10.00 SLU´s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMA) Programmes
Kevin Bishop, SLU

10.00-10.15 Fika

10.15-12.00 SwACCS’ vision, goals and possibilities. Workshop on research, education and societal interaction
Åke Bergman, SwACCS coordinator, Örebro University

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