06/07/2020
A new EU research project has set out to study the role of expertise in democracies, how science should inform political decisions, and how to prevent a populist backlash against the notion of ‘expertise’. The work of PERITIA includes conducting a comprehensive multi-disciplinary investigation of trust in, and the trustworthiness of, policy-related expert opinion. Its […]
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30/06/2020
Today, the European Commission’s independent Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (SAM) published their opinion Adaptation to climate change-related health effects which contains advice and recommendations on how the EU can help to make our societies, and in particular health sector, better prepared and more resilient with respect to impacts from climate change on health. The […]
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25/06/2020
The European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors has published a detailed statement on EU science advice in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, in collaboration with the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies and Peter Piot, a special advisor to Ursula von der Leyen. The main aim of the statement is […]
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10/06/2020
SAPEA today published its sustainability plan, which lays out a roadmap for the organisation’s future development in its role of providing evidence for the European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors. The plan is subtitled Making optimal use of the outstanding expertise of Europe’s academies in the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism, and outlines SAPEA’s […]
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05/06/2020
The challenges of creating a sustainable food system for Europe will be examined in a series of high-profile webinars in the second half of 2020 — including an analysis of changing consumer attitudes in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Co-hosted by Europe’s academies and other partners, the webinar series will explore different aspects of Europe’s food system following the publication of […]
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08/05/2020
SAPEA’s new evidence review on the future of food sustainability continues to give food for thought to policymakers and campaigners in Brussels and beyond. Published last month, the report A sustainable food system for the EU summarises the evidence on how society can make the transition to the food system of the future in a […]
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08/05/2020
Éva Kondorosi, a plant biologist from Hungary and a board Member of Academia Europae have been appointed to the European Group of Chief Scientific Advisors. Professors Kondorosi is a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina and the French Academy of Agriculture. She will stay for a three-year term succeeding Janusz Bujnicki, who have […]
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09/04/2020
Europe’s top scientists agree that a radical change is coming in how we produce and distribute food, to ensure food security and deliver healthy diets for all. Now a new report from SAPEA lays out the social science evidence on how that transition can happen in an inclusive, just and timely way. The Evidence Review […]
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18/03/2020
Europe’s academies are playing a vital role in global efforts to understand and tackle the challenge posed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Academies are home to world-leading expertise on infectious diseases — including not only medical and epidemiological facts, but also on social and economic effects, and how people and populations respond. Science communication during lockdown […]
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29/01/2020
On 30 January 2020, a SAPEA panel at Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange discussed their recent report Making sense of science for policy under conditions of complexity and uncertainty, addressing the question of how to provide good science advice to policymakers. For more information, visit http://aecardiffknowledgehub.wales/2020/01/16/discussing-making-sense-of-science-for-policy-at-cuspe/
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