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A scientist’s opinion: interview with Dr Margreet de Looze on adolescent health and risk behaviours
Margreet de Looze is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University. Her research examines how social and cultural contexts shape young people’s health and well-being, with a particular focus on adolescent substance use, mental health, and sexual health. Over the past 17 years, her interdisciplinary and cross-national research has documented how adolescent ...
Research and innovation for the future: Gender equality driving science, society, and democracy
Women only count for a third of researchers in the European Union. This gender gap isn't just unfair - it limits Europe's capacity to innovate and compete globally. When women are underrepresented in research and innovation, we lose diverse perspectives that could lead to better solutions for society's challenges. This STOA workshop brought together researchers, ...
Gender equality in European research & innovation: interview with Dr Marcela Linková
Dr Marcela Linková, Head of the Centre for Gender and Science at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, participated in the STOA workshop on 'Gender Equality in Research & Innovation' on 5 November 2025 at 15:00 CET. Her research and policy engagement have been instrumental for developing, implementing and assessing gender equality ...
Érika Roldán Roa: ‘Knowledge, research, and enjoyment of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are fundamental rights’
Érika Roldán Roa talks to the European Science-Media Hub about open science, diversity and gender equality in science. Mathematician Érika Roldán Roa is a team leader at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, and is affiliated with the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence at Universität Leipzig (Germany). One of ...
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Branislava Lalic about responsible research and innovation in the EU
Interview with Branislava Lalic, associate professor in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Novi Sad. What does RRI mean to you, and how is it a part of your research environment? Branislava Lalic: From my point of view, RRI is a way of living. In an ideal world, we would not need RRI ...
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Sven Schlarb about responsible research and innovation in the EU
Interview with Sven Schlarb, scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH. How is the Co-Change project contributing to research in your institution? Sven Schlarb: The Co-Change project combines researchers who think about ethical principles with projects that integrate these principles into their work. As such, responsible research, not only the monitoring function, is brought ...
Responsible research and innovation in the EU
How to build ethics and foresight into every stage of the research process, from design to implementation.