Discover the SALTGIANT ETN, a four year European project initiated in 2018 and dedicated to understand one of the largest salt deposits on Earth.
SALTGIANT is a rare cross-disciplinary network of natural and social scientists dedicated to understanding the formation of the Mediterranean Salt Giant, one of the largest salt deposits on Earth, and its implications for sub-seafloor microbial life, risk assessment in the oil industry, geo-economics of the Mediterranean region and the history of oceanography.
SALTGIANT contributes to respond to the growing demand for a new generation of scientists working in the interface between the natural and social sciences.
SALTGIANT brings together 24 academic organizations (13 beneficiaries, 11 partners), 6 private sector Oil&Gas companies, 2 mining sector companies, 1 biotechnology company, 1 geopolitics think tank, 1 museum and 1 specialist in transferable skills training from 11 countries to stimulate interdisciplinary and intersectorial knowledge exchange between geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, microbiologist, geographers and historians in a network with PhD students at its core.
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The 1st Saltgiant field course will be held in Sicily (April, 29 to May, 4th 2019)
The 1st SaltGiant Field Course will be held in Sicily from April 29th to May, 4th 2019. This event is open to the participation of external PhDs or Early Stage Researchers from any country ! The results of the applications received will be sent by email by March,16th....
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1st SaltGiant Workshop in Palermo (November, 26th to 29th 2018)
From the 26th till 29th of November 2018 the first SALTGIANT workshop was hosted by the University of Palermo in Palermo, Italy. This event marked the first formal meeting were all the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), their Principal Investigators and their Partner...
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