• The Microbiome gut brain axis and the rise of psychobiotics

    Articles, Environment, Industry

    Communication between our gut and our brain is a two-way street. A large part of the signals being sent from our intestines to our brain is thanks to the bacteria living inside us, our microbiome. Our gut microbes have been linked to anxiety and depression. Research is ongoing to see if we can manipulate...

  • COVID-19: How uncertainty affects our consumer behaviour

    Articles, Social Sciences

    As the COVID-19 is spreading rapidly around the world without treatment or a vaccine, uncertainty and fear prevails, leading many people to stockpile food, cleaning products and toilet paper. But is this a reasonable response in the face of a pandemic crisis?

  • EU project : ASSET

    EU projects
    ASSET´s goal is twofold: first, to create a sustainable and scalable ecosystem including all energy transition and education stakeholders: a) Companies from the energy sector, b) Universities and training actors, c) Authorities and policy makers and d) Society so as to enable a) continuous bottom up...
  • EU project : TELL ME

    EU projects
    TELL ME (Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence) is a 36 month Collaborative Project, which aims to provide evidence and to develop models for improved risk communication during infectious disease crises. TELL ME combines...
  • ESMH Press Review – April 29, 2020

    Media review

    Vaccines for Covid-19, environmental impact of the epidemic & EU responses: check out the ESMH selection of 27 science & tech news published in the last 2 weeks on the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media !

  • European responses to the corona crisis - Part 6 (25 April - 30 April)

    Other

    During the Coronavirus crises, the European Science-Media Hub is collecting and publishing a regular update of the most relevant releases provided by EU institutions and other European and global actors. 🆕 Last Update : 30 April

  • EU Project : CONCISE

    EU projects
    CONCISE aims to generate a European-wide debate on science communication, involving a wide array of stakeholders, from media outlets to policy makers, from scientists to business companies, from science communicators to civil society organisations. CONCISE aims at providing qualitative knowledge through...
  • CONCISE Project : a European-wide debate on science communication

    Articles, Communication

    How do citizens keep themselves informed about the most controversial scientific issues? Which sources of information do they choose? A two-year project aims to answer these questions in order to obtain valuable information on communication to the public, to be taken into account for the near future.