Our environment and health are closely intertwined, and we must equip future generations with adaptive capacities to achieve sustainable human wellbeing on all fronts. One such environment is our chemical one. It is present in the products we use, the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe....

Human Biomonitoring, a scientist’s opinion   Interview with Prof. Jana Klánová, professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and a director of the RECETOX Centre of MU.     Establishing exposure-health relationships seems like an enormous task. How are the teams...

HBM4EU is a joint effort of 30 countries, the European Environment Agency and the European Commission, co-funded under Horizon 2020.   The initiative is coordinating and advancing human biomonitoring in Europe. HBM4EU is generating evidence of the actual exposure of citizens to chemicals and the possible...

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...

Microbiome & psychobiotics, a scientist’s opinion   Interview with Dr. Ruairi Robertson, Wellcome Trust Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.     How might bacteria be affecting our mental health? What are the possible communication routes?   Ruairi Robertson: There are a number routes through which...

Microbiome & psychobiotics, a scientist’s opinion   Interview with Dr. Jason A Martin, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork.     How does our diet influence our microbiome (and what should we be eating more of to help our gut microbiome)? Do you think the current...

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...

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...