15/06/2021
Professor Antonio Loprieno becomes the new chair of the SAPEA Board. Professor Loprieno is the President of ALLEA, and a fellow of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. He takes over from Professor Sierd Cloetingh, the President of the Academia Europaea. Professor Cloetingh said: “It has been a pleasure to serve as the chair […]
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14/06/2021
When construction is complete, the European Spallation Source in Sweden and Denmark will be the brightest neutron source in the world, opening up new frontiers for science in a broad range of fields. But building a giant facility like this takes decades of commitment from policymakers and scientists alike. In a political environment dominated by […]
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07/06/2021
Professor Peter Jackson was invited to a webinar on on environment-friendly food systems, which was organised in frame of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2022. The event took place on 25 May 2021. The Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR) constitutes the scientific basis for national nutrient recommendations and food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway […]
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02/06/2021
SAPEA Evidence Review Report “A sustainable food system for the European Union” was presented at a webinar “Transforming Food Systems: Public Trust and Engagement to Reach the UN SDGs” on 2 June 2021. The event was organised by the Global Young Academy. Carina Keskitalo, a former member of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA) […]
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31/05/2021
To coincide with the twentieth birthday of the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council, their president Christina Moberg joins Toby Wardman to discuss the role of academies in advising policymakers, communicating with citizens, and contributing to society more generally. We also discuss the history and role of EASAC, the new challenges of science advice post-COVID, and […]
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17/05/2021
Eric Lambin and Eva Zažimalová have been appointed to the European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors for a term of three years. They were nominated by European Research Organisations and selected by an independent Identification Committee, and will replace Professor Carina Keskitalo and Sir Paul Nurse, whose mandates expired on 15 May 2021. Eva […]
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17/05/2021
What happens when your country needs a new science advice system, but all you have is a blank sheet of paper and a mandate to experiment? The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters set out in 2019 to reinvent science advice with their Sofi project. Two years later, the project is about to become a […]
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14/05/2021
SAPEA will organise a workshop at The Future of Science Communication Conference, taking place on 24 and 25 June. The workshop for practitioners of science communication will explore a real-life case of how SAPEA communicated the absence of evidence of risk from microplastics to human health after an evidence review report. The case was followed […]
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03/05/2021
How much political appetite is there for science advice to foreign policy — and how much impact does it have? What are the differences between advising ministers and advising diplomats? What does the phrase ‘science diplomacy’ actually mean? Jan Marco Müller discusses these questions with Toby Wardman of SAPEA. We also discuss how to develop […]
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29/04/2021
Next SAPEA webinar “Plastic pollution: Are biodegradable plastics a solution?” will be hosted by Mohammed Chahim MEP, Co-chair of the Circular Economy Working Group of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development. The event will take place on 16 June 2021 at 13:00 CEST will review the latest scientific evidence on […]
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