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The future of Horizon Europe for research and innovation, generative AI in research, AI as the new goldmine for Europe: check out the ESMH selection of 24 science and tech news items published recently on the web.

Sylvia Kritzinger is Professor for Methods in the Social Sciences at the University of Vienna (Austria). Her research focuses on citizens’ political attitudes and voting behaviour, democratic representation, and political participation, voting at 16.   She participated in this year’s Annual Lecture hosted...

The prevalence of this atypical lung infection agent is widely underestimated - people are often not even aware that they have it - and many antibiotics cannot effectively treat it; Mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreaks occur every few years. This winter, countries like China, Denmark, France and the Netherlands...

Open Science is the idea of disseminating knowledge as soon as it becomes available, using digital tools. It is a development that could greatly improve the quality of research and as such, it is a priority for the EU.   But Open Science doesn’t come without risks. In order to safeguard academic freedom...

Agricultural economist Hermann Lotze-Campen leads climate resilience research at the world-famous Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and he’s also a professor of sustainable land use and climate change at Humboldt University in Berlin. In this interview, he explains more about the relationships...

Once the preserve of science fiction, cultivated meat has become a reality. According to its advocates, it is a way to revolutionise food with more environmentally and ethically sound meat. Even though it is not allowed in the EU yet, will cultivated meat soon be on European plates?   In 2013, Professor...

Interview with researcher, project and programme manager Teodora Konach on research integrity and open science in Europe.   According to experts, research integrity and open science, whereby research data and processes are freely available to re-use, are of the utmost importance for a high quality of...

This year many elections are set to be held, but generational gaps, social and economic disparities can lead to inequality in the democratic process. How can we make democracy work for everyone?   This was the question that was explored at the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology’s (STOA) Annual...