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EASAC celebrates its ten-year anniversary in Brussels and presents a new statement on solar power
The European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), which brings together the national science academies of the EU Member States, is marking its 10th anniversary tonight. The celebrations will be held at the Palais des...... read more
JRC and EASAC sign agreement for closer cooperation
Brussels, 18 October 2011 – The Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) have signed an agreement towards closer cooperation, in the name of the common goal to support policy making...... read more
What Europe should be doing about infectious diseases
"Infectious diseases create 10% of the burden of disease in Europe. They continue to represent a major and serious challenge and we remain vulnerable to future global threats. To tackle this challenge, Europe needs to create...... read more
Meeting of European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
EASAC, the coalition of the National Academies of Sciences of EU member states, has held a full meeting of Council to debate and decide its work programme until the end of 2011. The members of EASAC Council also met with...... read more
Europe risks TB time bomb unless EU agrees joined-up strategy to combat disease
Tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a significant problem for the European Union and unless serious steps are taken to raise awareness and align strategy across Europe all previous progress made in controlling the disease will be...... read more
Ecosystems services and biodiversity in Europe
The life support systems that are provided by the environment ("ecosystem services") are undervalued by Europeans and must be protected by new legislation, warns a new report by the European Academies...... read more
Zoonoses
Most new human pathogens reported in the past 25 years, such as influenza and SARS, have zoonotic origins. The risk of zoonotic infection, that is any infection transmissible between vertebrate animals and humans,...... read more
Links between migration and infectious disease in Europe
The healthcare screening and treatment processes for migrants entering the EU need to be better evaluated and coordinated across Member States - to prevent the potential spread of infectious diseases such as TB and HIV -...... read more
Moving Water Symposium
Moving waterInternational symposium, Stockholm 12 November 2007 Where? In Kulturhuset, Stockholm (Hörsalen, Studio 3)When? 12th of November 2007How? One day event with presentations and discussionsFor whom? The General Public,...... read more
Microbes beating medicine
Deaths from previously treatable infections will become more common unless there is investment in the science needed to tackle antibiotic resistance Europes leading scientists have warned in a report published today (21 June...... read more
Human embryonic stem cell research
Latest (24/07/06): Human embryonic stem cell research The Chairman of EASAC, Professor David Spearman, has appealed to Ministers attending a European Council meeting today (24 July 2006) not to impose a blanket ban on the use of...... read more
ERC Evaluation Panel nominations
At the request of the ERC Scientific Council, EASAC today sent them more than a hundred nominations of scientists to populate the ERC evaluation panels. The nominations were from across the EU and were proposed by...... read more
National academies call on European Commission to reduce obstacles to vaccine development
The European Commission must encourage greater collaboration between universities and drug companies on the research and development of vaccines, and tackle problems in clinical research, including shortfalls in clinical trials,...... read more
Co-ordination across Europe needed to combat growing disease threat
Co-ordination across Europe is needed to combat the growing threat of avian flu and other infectious diseases, according to a report from the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), launched today (14 June 2005) at a...... read more
European conservation targets at risk because of lack of monitoring system
European Union targets on stemming the decline of European wildlife and their habitats could be undermined unless a system to monitor whether conservation measures are actually working is urgently put in place, warns a report by...... read more
Dangerous air pollution levels from shipping, North America and Asia
Efforts to improve air quality across the European Union are failing because of pollution created elsewhere in the northern hemisphere, particularly Asia and North America, and by international shipping, the European Academies...... read more
Use of plant genetics in conventional agriculture ‘held back
The successful application of new tools and methods in plant genetics to conventional farming is being held back in the European Union by the lack of a coherent research strategy and the impact of legislation, according to a...... read more
Finland and Sweden lead way towards target for research and development
Finland and Sweden have already attained a European Union target for expenditure on research and development despite having relatively low levels of public investment, according to a report published today (6 April 2004) by the...... read more
European scientists review genetics for conventional plant breeding
Leading European scientists have launched a study into how recent rapid advances in decoding the genetic information for crops can be applied to conventional plant breeding, it was announced today (18 March 2003). The European...... read more
Building science in to policy
Top European Scientists are today gathered in Stockholm to launch a new council for providing independent expert advice to European policy makers. Leaders of the national academies of the EU member states, together with Academia...... read more