12/01/2018
FEAM (the Federation of European Academies of Medicine) has published a summary of its European Biomedical Policy Forum workshop titled “Use of data a in cross-border biomedical research: what are the challenges ahead for Europe?”. The workshop took place on 20 November 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The workshop was organised against the backdrop of the General Data […]
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11/01/2018
The ALLEA (All European Academies) Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics will present a one-day workshop on Ethical Aspects of Open Access on 1 February 2018 at the Academy Palace in Brussels, Belgium, hosted by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. The workshop will be held back-to-back with an Open Data in […]
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05/12/2017
European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) published a report on 5 December 2017 titled Opportunities and Challenges for Research on Food and Nutrition Security and Agriculture in Europe. It calls for urgent action on food and nutrition. This thorough analysis has implications for policy-makers working on food, nutrition, health, the environment, climate change, and agriculture. Combating […]
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04/12/2017
SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies) has announced Professor Bernard Charpentier as the new chair of the SAPEA Board. Professor Charpentier is the President of FEAM (Federation of European Academies of Medicine), Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Paris Sud 11 and a Fellow of the French Academy of Medicine. He takes […]
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30/11/2017
SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies) has published its first Evidence Review Report titled Food from the Oceans, which examines the question of how the ocean can help satisfy the global demand for food. As an integral part of the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM), SAPEA was asked to produce this Evidence […]
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16/11/2017
SAPEA brought academies from across Europe together for meetings in Madrid, Spain and Bucharest, Romania to share best practice in the provision of scientific advice to policy-makers and public engagement. During the months of September and October, science academies from over 20 countries took part in these two workshops organised by SAPEA. The workshops were […]
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25/10/2017
In this position paper FEAM acknowledges the importance of the significant advances that have taken place over the last few years in the science and application of genome editing, aided by the development of new techniques such as CRISPR/Cas9. FEAM also recognises that the rapid development of this technology and its potential to deliberately introduce […]
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19/10/2017
ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, warns in a statement published on 19 October 2017 that, in light of recent scientific progress in human embryonic stem cells, parts of the reasoning of a 2014 judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) “could soon lead to inconsistent and […]
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18/10/2017
SAPEA’s Food from the Oceans public engagement activities extended to yet another European coastal city. Together with the Union of German of Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, SAPEA organised a panel discussion on the topic on 5 October. The event slotted in with the German Year of Science 2016*17 […]
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03/10/2017
On 27 September, FEAM (the Federation of European Academies of Medicine) published a statement with BioMed Alliance (the Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe) titled ‘Strengthening biomedical research for the benefit of European citizens’. The statement highlights the need to provide a more robust environment for academic clinical and health research in Europe in view […]
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