sustainability

Interview with Eric Lambin: Creative background with Hands holding different organic food. Horizontal Cooking Pattern. Illustration on a Healthy eating theme

‘Heavy red meat eaters could be CO2-taxed in the future’

"However, we also propose that fruit and vegetables should become more affordable." Interview with Eric Lambin, Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, about the scientific consensus towards sustainable food consumption in the EU and the new scientific opinion on this topic. If you rate the nutritional quality and the state of sustainable food systems ...

Open strategic autonomy - STOA event

Open strategic autonomy – STOA event

At its event on 7 March 2023 gathering MEPs and researchers, the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) focused on the concept of ‘Open strategic autonomy’. This strategy tries to address the European Union’s dilemma of how to reduce its dependency on external actors while remaining open to trade and investments. https://youtu.be/0Y7SRDhRpT0

Nuclear power plant in the middle of a flower meadow

Nuclear energy: innovation and sustainability

Interview nuclear physics expert Prof. Bent Lauritzen "Nuclear energy will play a decisive role in a transition to a low carbon European economy", says nuclear physics expert Bent Lauritzen of the Technical University of Denmark. However, "continued research and development in nuclear energy provision will be decisive if the European nuclear industry is to regain ...

Children give a presentation about recycling

Talking sustainability on TikTok: how ‘eco-influencers’ communicate

Joachim Allgaier, Professor for Communication and Digital Society at Fulda University (Germany), co-authored an academic paper on environmental communication on TikTok. The study found that the rapidly growing social media platform could have the potential to deal with sustainability issues in short and punchy videos without neglecting the complexity of the topics. He spoke to ...

Agriculture and artificial intelligence technology in smart farm. Smart farming ai and precision agriculture

AI in agriculture: benefits and challenges ahead

Artificial intelligence (AI) could greatly benefit and streamline sustainable agriculture in the EU at every point in the production chain, from farm to fork. However, it does not come without challenges to its implementation.

Jörg Dörr, Agriculture and artificial intelligence technology in smart farm. Smart farming ai and precision agriculture

A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Jörg Dörr about AI in agriculture

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Dörr holds the chair of "Digital Farming" at TU Kaiserslautern. In this position, he is responsible for the research programs of the institute and has been leading the Smart Farming program at the institute since 2020. His work at the TU as well as at Fraunhofer IESE focuses on software and systems ...

Josse de Baerdemaeker, Agriculture and artificial intelligence technology in smart farm. Smart farming ai and precision agriculture

A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Josse de Baerdemaeker about AI in agriculture

Josse De Baerdemaeker graduated from the KU Leuven, Belgium and has an MSc and PhD in Agricultural Engineering from Michigan State University. He is recognised as the founding father of the concept of precision agriculture, and his focus is on improving technology in crop cultivation, harvesting and handling to minimize losses and optimize yield and ...

ASSET EU Project

EU project : ASSET

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 creation of research, innovation and educational (RIE) services and ...