European Science-Media Hub

Living materials that can heal themselves - and maybe the planet too

Materials that can grow, adapt, sense, and repair themselves, much like living tissue: however futuristic this might sound, ‘living materials’ are already a reality, and the EU is positioning itself at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field. ‘Engineered living materials’ (ELMs) are composed, either...

on September 09, 2026 - Articles, New Technologies

EU Project : QUEST

EU projects

Science Communication (SciCom) plays a key role in addressing today’s societal challenges. To be effective, it must be conceived as multi-directional communication, involving scientists, policy-makers, journalists, other communications actors and citizens. On one side, scientists produce research results...

on August 21, 2019
ESMH Press Review – August 7, 2019

Media review

GMOs, blockchain and data breach: check the ESMH selection of 16 science & tech news published in the last 2 weeks on the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media!

on August 07, 2019
Diarmaid Mac Mathúna : “People are starting to realise that algorithms are influencing what we see.”

Articles, Social Sciences

Diarmaid Mac Mathuna is a Communication Expert on Digital campaigns and content strategy, and Director at Indiepics. He participated in the ESMH event Virality and influencers in digital communication on 3 April in the European Parliament.

on July 24, 2019
European Science-Media Hub (ESMH) at the main forum of science journalism : the 11th World Conference of Science Journalists in Lausanne

ESMH meets partners

The project ESMH, its mission and its offer for science journalists were presented at the World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) 2019. It attracted 1137 registered delegates from 83 countries to Lausanne between 1-5 July. The participants could hear about the ESMH training activities for journalists...

on July 18, 2019
ESMH Press Review – July 17, 2019

Media review

Sounds of space, customer data liability and plant-based burgers : check the ESMH selection of 23 science & tech news published in the last 2 weeks on the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media !

on July 17, 2019
EU Project : EUNOMIA

EU projects

A project supporting with an intermediary-free, decentralized platform to help determine the source of a piece of information, how this information has been modified and how likely it is to be trustworthy. This tool includes a blockchain-based infrastructure and a digital companion which uses AI to...

on July 10, 2019
SOMA consortium scales up anti-disinformation efforts across EU Member States

Articles, Disinformation, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, New Technologies, Research

Horizon-2020-supported Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis links academic, technological and media expertise to combat disinformation (SOMA).

on July 10, 2019
EU Project : WeVerify

EU projects

WeVerify is a Horizon2020 project and aims to address the advanced content verification challenges through a participatory verification approach, open source algorithms, low-overhead human-in-the-loop machine learning and intuitive visualizations. Social media and web content will be analysed for detection...

on July 10, 2019