SRA Europe Conference 2012 in Zurich, 18 - 20 June

The SRA Europe Annual Meeting 2012 will be held at ETH Zurich, 18 - 20 June. The conference brochure can be downloaded here.

The SRA-Europe Conference 2012 is open to all interested researchers and experts in the various field of risk analysis. Participants from industry are welcome.

The 21^th Annual meeting of SRA-E took place in Zurich from June 17-20, 2012. The theme of the SRA-E conference was Risk and Society: Decisions & Responsibilities. The conference attracted over 200 participants from 28 countries. Assisting with the conference, SRA-E was fortunate to enjoy the generous sponsorship of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). Other sponsors included the Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) and Swissnuclear. The conference brought together researchers as well as representatives from government, business and non-governmental organizations for three days of intensive discussions.

The conference started with a welcome reception at the restaurant Rigiblick on Sunday, 17^th June2012, supported by the City and Canton of Zurich. The welcome reception was open to all conference participants and provided the opportunity to meet other conference participants at a great location with stunning mountain views.

The scientific program was particularly fascinating this year – with excellent, well received keynote speeches from Professors ValerieReyna (Cornell University), John Adams (University College London), John Graham (Indiana University), Adrienne Grêt-Regamey (ETH Zürich), Michael R. Greenberg (Rutgers University) and Wolfgang Kröger (ETH Zürich). Other invited speakers at the conference included Ortwin Renn, Ragnar Lofstedt, Raffaele Chiacchia, Bruno Merz, Pius Krütli, and Niels Holthausen.

The poster session on Monday, June 18^th, was accompanied by a reception, which was kindly sponsored by the Journal of Risk Research. For the first time, participants could vote for their favorite poster during the poster session.

At the SRA-E annual General Assembly on Tuesday, June 19^th, the SRA-E student scholarships were awarded to Madeleine Baker-Goering (Duke University), Rachel Southworth (Cardiff University, UK), and Jesica T. Castillo-Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain). They will receive a contribution worth 500 euro to their conference expenses. The “Best Poster Award” was presented to Mary Collins (University of California, USA).

The conference dinner was held at the Acqua restaurant on the left shore of lake Zurich on Tuesday evening. The location of the dinner allowed for a nice walk to get some flavor of the city. The Law and Policy Specialty Group, the National Capital Area Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis and the Maastricht University kindly sponsored the accompanying reception.

The 22^st SRA-E conference is already in the planning stage and will be organized in Trondheim, Norway, on 17-19 June 2013.

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• Risk Perception
• Risk Communication
• Natural Hazards
• Technological Risks
• Risk Assessment
• Risk and Regulation
• Health Risks
• Anticipating Major Risks

The conference will start on Sunday evening 17th June with an opening reception and will continue until the early afternoon of Wednesday 20th June.

Each conference day will open up with a plenary session with keynote presentations and discussions, followed by parallel sessions including oral papers, poster presentation sessions and symposia reflecting particular themes of interest. A special drinks and buffet poster session is planned on Monday evening. A conference dinner will take place on Tuesday evening.

The conference language is English.

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The conference book of abstracts for the annual meeting 2012 can be downloaded here.

Last modified: 8 June 2012

An update on the preliminary program for our conference in Zurich is now available for download here.

This is still a preliminary version and minor changes may occur. A printed version of the final program will be included in the conference pack for all participants.

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There will be a number of interesting keynote speakers, addressing the theme of the conference.

Confirmed speakers so far include

• Valerie Reyna  (Professor of Human Development and Psychology at Cornell University)
• John Adams  (Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College London)
• John Graham (Indiana University)
• Adrienne Grêt-Regamey (ETH Zürich)
  
• Michael R. Greenberg  (Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University)
• Wolfgang Kröger (ETH Zürich)
  

• „Eye Tracking – Communication material“
  organized by Vivianne Visschers (vvisschers@ethz.ch) and Rebecca Hess (hessr@ethz.ch)


• „Medical Risk Communication“
  organized by Carmen Keller (ckeller@ethz.ch)


• „Carbon Capture and Storage“
  organized by Selma L'Orange Seigo (slorange@ethz.ch)


• „Literacy and Empowerment”
  organized by Melanie Connor (melanie.connor@usi.ch)


• „Nuclear Power after Fukushima“
  organized by Vivianne Visschers  (vvisschers@ethz.ch)

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Welcome Reception

Travel instructions

You reach the restaurant with a small cable car climbing up the Zürichberg (mountain of Zürich). Take the Tram number 9 or 10 to Seilbahn Rigiblick. There you transfer to the cable car (called Seilbahn Rigiblick), which takes you to the top of the hill within 5 minutes. Get off the cable car at the terminal station Rigiblick and walk 50 meters to the left to reach the restaurant. For more information on the restaurant and the location, please refer to the homepage: www.restaurantrigiblick.ch/?lang=en.

The conference dinner will be held at the beautiful Acqua restaurant on the shore of Lake Zurich on Tuesday, 19th June 2012 at seven o’clock in the evening. The Acqua restaurant offers an impressive view of the city, the lake and the Swiss Alps. The guests can enjoy their culinary treats while watching sail boats float past. The restaurant offers a creative, fresh and light cuisine with an Italian touch. Fine wines compliment the culinary experience at the Acqua lakeside restaurant. The Acqua restaurant is literally located on the lake, resting on 64 piles. The warm interior with leather, nacre and wood is complimented by a stylish garden directly on the lake.

Travel instructions

The restaurant can be reached by boat or by tram from the city centre in about 10-15 minutes. For more information on the restaurant and the location, please refer to the homepage: www.acqua.ch

 Poster size

Poster format is portrait. The Poster size is A0 (height: 130 cm, width 90 cm).

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Submission of abstracts

Authors wishing to present their work at the conference in the form of an oral presentation, poster, or symposium are requested to submit an abstract no later than January 20th, 2012.

Abstracts for individual papers and posters should be submitted electronically, by filling out the abstract submission form. Each author can only submit one abstract for an oral presentation (or one poster). Symposium organisers are allowed to submit an abstract for an oral presentation in addition to their symposium abstract. Authors can be co-authors to other papers as well.

Oral presentations will last approximately 20 minutes. The abstract of an oral presentation or poster should be 2.000 characters maximum (including spaces) and include specific field of interest, issues addressed, methodology applied and results achieved or expected.

Symposium organizers are very welcome to contact srae2012@ethz.ch before the submission deadline, for feedback on their proposal. The general scheme is a symposium with 4 presentations, lasting for 90 minutes. In some cases symposia may be extended to last over 2 consecutive sessions, involving 7-8 speakers.

Abstracts for symposia should also be submitted through the abstract submission form. The symposium organizer is requested to submit a description of the general theme of the symposium, and list the name(s) of the symposium leader(s) and the individual presentations (title, author(s)). Each author within the symposium should also fill out the abstract submission form.

Priority will be given to symposia where authors are drawn from different institutions and/or countries. Authors whose abstracts have been accepted will be expected to attend the conference and present their work in person.

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The fees for the conference depend on type of membership and the registration date (early bird, late bird). The deadline for early bird registration is 15 April 2012.

                                                  Early bird          Late bird
SRA-E supporting member         540 CHF          650 CHF  
Other full delegates                    620 CHF          730 CHF   
Student delegates ¹                    235 CHF          340 CHF

1   Please bring your students ID card to the conference. The ID card must be shown upon conference check in. Otherwise the difference must be paid on-site.

To register for the conference, click here:  https://www.organizers-events.ch/organizers/98/105593

There is a substantial discount in fees for those members that affiliated to SRA-Europe when they renewed their 2012 membership. It is not too late to benefit from this discount. If you have not renewed your 2012 membership, or indeed if you wish to become an SRA member for the first time, you can do this on the SRA website (http://www.sra.org/membership.php). Be sure to select the box to affiliate to SRA Europe - and you are then entitled to register at the Zurich meeting for the reduced fee.

For authors presenting an oral presentation or a poster, the online registration has to be completed and paid for by March 31, 2012.

The deadline for early bird registration is April 15, 2012.

On-site registration


On-site registration will be possible each day (18.- 20. June) from 08.00 until 12.00 at the registration desk located at the entrance hall of the ETH Zurich main building.
A valid credit card is required for payment. Please use one of the following: MasterCard, VISA, Maestro-Card, Postcard.

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Hotel booking

The hotel can be booked directly with Zürich tourism. Hotel allotments have been reserved for the SRA Meeting. Please follow the link:

http://www.zuerich.com/en/meeting-kongress/landingpage_kongress_SRA_Europe.html

For more information on hotels, please contact Zürich Tourism:

ZÜRICH TOURISMUS
Phone: 0041 44 215 40 40
Fax: 0041 44 215 40 44 E-Mail: hotel@zuerich.com



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Conference location

The conference will take place the Campus "Zentrum" of ETH Zurich, Building HG. It is located just in front of the tram stop coming from the main train station.
Go to http://map.search.ch/zuerich/raemistr.101.en.html?y=240m for a map of the ETH Zurich Zentrum and surroundings.

Address:
ETH Zurich
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Travel information

Travel from Zurich main train station to ETH Zentrum

• From tram stop "Bahnhofstrasse/HB":
  Tram no. 6 (direction Zoo) to tram stop "ETH/Universitätsspital".
  Journey time: about 6 minutes

• From tram stop "Bahnhofplatz/HB":
  Tram no. 10 (direction Flughafen or Bahnhof Oerlikon) to tram stop "ETH/Universitätsspital",
  or tram no. 3 (direction Klusplatz) to tram stop "Central" (first stop)

• from "Central" by Polybahn (departing every 3 minutes) to the Polyterrasse.
  Journey time: about 8 minutes

Travel from Zürich airport to ETH Zentrum

• Tram no. 10 (direction Bahnhofplatz/HB) to tram stop "ETH/Universitätsspital".
  The tram operates daily from 6 a.m to 11 p.m. with trams departing every 7 to 15 minutes.
  Journey time: 30 minutes
  

We are pleased to announce two SRA-Europe Conference Scholarships each worth  500 €.

Students wishing to apply for a Scholarship are required to submit:

• An extended abstract (up to 800 words)
• A short CV (no more than 1 side A4)
• A description of their motivation for wishing to attend the conference
• A letter of support from their supervisor

This information should be sent to srae2012@ethz.ch, also by 20th January 2012. Only 2 documents should be sent: one containing 1-3 above with the letter from the student’s supervisor in the other. The email subject line should read: SRA Europe conference scholarships.

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Student Scholarships 2012 awarded


We are pleased to announce three winners of an SRA-Europe Conference Scholarship 2012. Zurich Conference Studentship Scholarships (each worth €500) have been awarded to:

• Madeleine Baker-Goering, Duke University (North Carolina, USA)

Madeleine received her award for the presentation:

Madeleine Baker-Goering, Lori Bennear, Nolan Miller:
Risk framing, bright-lines, and relative risk: impacts on perceptions of risk from arsenic in groundwater

• Jesica T. Castillo-Rodriguez, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
  
  Jesica’s award winning presentation was:
  
  Jesica T. Castillo-Rodríguez, Ignacio Escuder-Bueno, Sara Perales-Momparler, ArmandoSerrano-Lombillo, Luis Altarejos-García:
  Risk analysis as a tool to support emergency action planning against flood risk

• Rachel Southworth, Cardiff University (Wales, UK)
  
  Rachel received her award for the presentation:
  
  Rachel Southworth:
  Managing financial crime risk across global banking territories

Local Organizing Committee:

• Prof. Dr. Michael Siegrist
• Dr. Carmen Keller
• Dr. Simone Dohle

Sponsors

The SRA-Europe 2012 conference is supported by the following organizations:

Main sponsor:

• Federal Office for the Environment FOEN

Other sponsors:

• Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG
• Federal Office of Public Health FOPH
• Swissnuclear
• City and Canton of Zurich (welcomereception)
• Journal of Risk Research (apéro at the poster session)
• Law and Policy Specialty Group(apéro before the conference dinner)
• National Capital Area Chapter NCACof the Society for Risk Analysis SRA (apéro before theconference dinner)
• Maastricht University (apéro before theconference dinner)

We are very grateful to these organizations whose kind sponsorship has helped to make the SRA-Europe 2012conference possible.

Notification of acceptance                       1 March, 2012

Deadline early bird registration              15 April, 2012

Programme available                              15 May, 2012

Last modified: 28 March, 2012