• Participatory and direct democracy in the European Union

    Videos

    In recent years, the increasing citizens' distrust and disaffection towards representative institutions, coupled with the worrisome falling electoral turnout trend in many EU Member States, appear to signal a major crisis of the representation system as a whole.

    on January 03, 2020

  • The challenges of Precision Agriculture in Europe

    Videos

    The STOA foresight study on 'Precision Agriculture and the future of farming in Europe’ provided input for the European Parliament's activities of in the area of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP).

    on December 23, 2019

  • EU project : PROTEIN2FOOD

    EU projects
      The growing world population demands more high-quality, protein-rich food sources. But we must also take into account health, the environment, ecology, agriculture, increased biodiversity...etc. This project addresses these challenges by developing high-quality dietary protein from versatile seed crops...
    on December 18, 2019

  • Is microbial protein the answer to the quest for ‘meatless meat’?

    Articles, Environment, Food

    Can you imagine producing agri-products without having to use land? Finnish scientists and researchers have produced protein, manufactured by microbes, using electricity, water, nutrients and air.

    on December 18, 2019

  • ESMH Press Review – December 11, 2019

    Media review

    Climate change, energy policy & gene editing: check out the ESMH selection of 25 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 December 11, 2019

  • Does artificial intelligence threaten human rights ?

    Videos
      Asking "Is artificial intelligence a human rights issue?", the workshop co-organised by STOA with the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on 20 March 2019, gathered academic experts, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), practitioners and representatives...
    on December 10, 2019

  • Deepfake, shallowfake and speech synthesis: tackling audiovisual manipulation

    Articles, Disinformation, Artificial Intelligence
    Despite alarmist news stories about deepfake heralding the end of democracy or truth itself, the technology – for better or worse – is far from perfect, which suggests that there is still a window of opportunity to prepare society, institutions and regulatory frameworks for the moment it is.   The state...
    on December 04, 2019

  • ESMH Press Review – November 27, 2019

    Media review

    Targeted advertisement, genome analysis & data leaks: check out the ESMH selection of 22 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 November 27, 2019

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