COST Domain Coomiittee of Food and Agirculture and Action TD1203 are organising a Strategic Workshop on the topic of Food Waste in the European Food Supply Chain: Challenges and Opportunities,in Athens (Greece), 12-13 May 2014, http://www.cost.eu/events/foodwaste .  The draft programme will be soon uploaded on the website.

 We have a Call for Expression of Interest https://forms.cost.eu/food-waste-abstract-submission-form. The call is mostly focused on Early Stage Researchers, <Ph.D.+8 years, but not exclusively. A number of grants will be awarded to the most competitive applications.

The deadline for submission is Friday, 28 February 2014.

The AQUAGAMETE COST Action (http://aquagamete.webs.upv.es/) announces the special session on Biology of Aquatic Species Gametes, which will take place in San Sebastián (Spain) in October 2014, within the Aquaculture Europe 2014 Conference.

Researchers are invited to submit their abstracts (for posters or oral communications) before May 1st, following the indications published in the Conference website (http://www.easonline.org/component/content/article/39-uncategorised/259-aquaculture-europe-2014). Early Stage Researchers (ESR) are especially encouraged to participate.

Looking forward to meet you there,

Dr. Juan F. Asturiano (Action Chair)
Dr. Ákos Horváth (Action Vice-Chair)