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A scientist’s opinion: interview with Ugnė Keliauskaitė from Bruegel on Europe’s energy dependency
The views expressed here are from Ugnė Keliauskaitė and do not necessarily reflect those of the think tank Bruegel. Do your findings suggest that Europe is shifting from fossil fuel dependency towards new forms of dependency, for example on critical materials or external clean energy supply chains? Ugnė Keliauskaitė: China dominates global production of the ...
Building European leadership for the second quantum revolution
Quantum computing is at the cutting edge of technological innovation, promising transformative capabilities that could revolutionise fields from cryptography to materials science and artificial intelligence. How can Europe build on its foundational work and secure leadership in the second quantum revolution, ensuring that these advanced technologies serve European values and strategic interests? An event on ...
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Diego Peñaloza on textile and the environment
Diego Peñaloza is a senior life cycle assessment researcher at RISE, Sweden’s research institute. He works mainly with textiles and garments, biobased materials and construction products. Diego is part of the EU-funded New Cotton project that uses novel technology to recycle textile waste into a fibre very similar to cotton. What are the environmental and ...
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Paulien Harmsen on textile and the environment
"We really should value textiles more as durable products, only then the system will become more sustainable," says Paulien Harmsen. She is a senior scientist and technical lead for the Sustainable Textiles Programme at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands, working on circular and sustainable textiles and fashion fossil-free textiles, textile recycling and bio-based ...
A scientist’s opinion: interview with Maria Elena Bottazzi on vaccines in low- and middle-income countries
Maria Elena Bottazzi, born in Italy, raised in Honduras, is a microbiologist and infectious disease expert at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, United States). She and her colleague Peter Hotez led a team in India to develop the Covid-19 vaccine Corbevax, get it manufactured, and then give it away to low- and middle-income countries, patent-free. ...
Low cost and open source: vaccines in developing countries
In South Africa, a scientific knowledge transfer hub is working to create a Covid-19 vaccine based on the publicly available sequence of Moderna's mRNA vaccine, without Moderna's involvement but with its approval. In India, scientists are also testing a vaccine to fight SARS-CoV-2. These seem to be big steps for developing countries in order to ...
A scientist’s opinion: interview with Petro Terblanche on the first African vaccine hub
Petro Terblanche is Health Science Professor at North-West University and is Managing Director at Afrigen Biologics in South Africa. Next to developing an open source vaccine, Afrigen hosts a global vaccine hub to build capacity and capabilities in low- and middle-income countries to design, develop and produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines. Professor Terblanche, as managing ...
55% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030: ‘It’s a Herculean effort’
Interview with Prof. Nebojsa Nakicenovic, energy economist and systems analyst from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Vienna University of Technology and Deputy Chair of the EU’s Scientific Advise Mechanism. The EU’s Scientific Advise Mechanism (SAM), comprised of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission (GCSA) and the Scientific Advice ...