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As head of Portugal’s National Program for Healthy Eating Promotion (PNPAS), Maria João Gregório works on limiting unhealthy food marketing to kids.
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After a shock breast cancer diagnosis, Susan Knox began advocacy work to help other women affected by the disease.
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The JRC and EARTO recommend a pan-European approach to the use of research infrastructures.
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Part of the Proposal for a Council Recommendation on learning for environmental sustainability, it provides a definition of sustainability competences...
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European data suggests that only half of us will go through life without developing cancer at some point.
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre successfully confirmed with real samples the validity of its new detection method specific for the...
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Fulfilling the climate policy pledges made at the recent COP26 in Glasgow would bring the world closer to the climate targets of the Paris Agreement
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The European Jobs Monitor 2021 finds that the gender employment gap has been largely stable since 2014.
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has developed a new detection method specific for the Omicron variant.
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The first call of interest of the Science meets Regions programme led to the selection of 14 regional and local administrations and 2 multiregional...
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New rules make open source the default whenever software could benefit citizens, companies and other public services.
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European Cancer Information System updated to include new indicators for children
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Interactive website launched to navigate the resilience dashboards, a set of indicators and information on resilience in Member States and non-EU...
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The European Commission published today the results of the first coordinated control plan on the authenticity of herbs and spices carried out by 21 EU...
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In September, the Commission adopted an official communication on the New European Bauhaus, taking inspiration from six months of conversation with...
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Representatives of the Joint Research Centre present the contribution of science to managing risks of current and future disasters at the European...
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The 4th edition of the JRC – OECD joint report on the innovative activity of the world’s top corporate R&D investors focuses on the impact they can...
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Despite a reduction in profits forecast for 2021 due to the rise in fuel prices, the EU fleet is expected to end 2021 with positive margins.
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Interviews explore how children and their parents coped with schooling during the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.
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The 3rdRaw Materials Scoreboard provides input to the EU’s policy efforts at a time when global raw material supply chains continue to be severely...