Access to healthy and environmentally friendly food is limited, especially for those living in marginalised urban (and rural) areas. It often requires much time to find and access food that is locally produced, season...
Exploring Barcelona's food sharing ecosystem, the first CULTIVATE Mobile Research Lab embarked on a transformative journey from March 18th to 23rd, 2024.
The new EU-funded project DARWIN will co-develop new-generation NGT detection methods and new digital solutions to help create a fair, healthy, safe and environmentally friendly food system.
Food waste is a large contributor to global warming. Increasing efforts are being made to “upcycle” ingredients that are not normally eaten, but “time is running out", says the International Food Waste Coalition...
In this interview, dr. Alfredo Minguela Puras, from the Biomedical Research Institute of Murcia, explains how his team is validating the ULISES therapy developed by the consortium through in vitro and in vivo (in huma...
PAIR is a new EU-funded project that aims to make radical improvements to Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostics and epidemiological modeling in the One Health approach through scientific research and innovation.
Read the first CULTIVATE policy brief which summarizes food sharing initiatives key governance barriers and extracts a suite of high-level policy recommendations to address them.
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PROJECTS ALIGN WITH EC'S CALL FOR ACTION, URGING POLICY CONSISTENCY AND COMPREHENSIVE MEASURES TO ADDRESS FOOD WASTE CRISIS ACROSS EU MEMBER STATES
Being denied loans and adoptions, because of one’s medical records. The ‘return to life of many cancer survivors is a history of discrimination. European institutions and some member states are pushing for their �...
Ramón Martínez Máñez, professor at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), explains in this interview how his company is contributing to the ULISES goals in the fight against cancer.
Locals and refugees cooking and eating together, “edible neighbourhoods” and surplus redistribution. How a digital compass will help people get oriented among food sharing schemes and issue a call to policy makers...
In France, 9 million people struggle to access general practitioners. Worldwide, half of the population has fewer primary care resources than their urban counterparts. When living in rural areas turns into a nightmare...
The CULTIVATE EU-funded project aims to increase awareness and knowledge of Food Sharing Initiatives (FSIs), understand what drives or hampers their practice, and foster sustainability, inclusion, and resilience in ur...
If you’re just born in the wrong country, or social class, you may have 60% less chance of surviving cancer. On World Cancer Day, experts call to fight “inequities”: not a matter of chance, but of modifiable fac...
A video interview with a researcher in molecular biology discusses the factors that affect each individual’s response to Covid-19 and the tool that can be used by public health officers to predict it
Developing art and creativity to improve the effectiveness and delivery of healthcare. From narrative medicine to the disclosure of one’s medical records on the net: how “open sourcing” feelings and fears can he...
The prices of fertilisers jumped by +116% in one year. While the Ukraine war and the energy crisis are stressing the urgency of ending Europe’s dependence on Russian imports, an EU-funded project aims at creating ne...
The EU Clinical Trials Regulation should help resolve problems caused by its predecessor directive and help meet needs arising from the pandemic. There will be challenges in doing so, but there is already strong evide...
The digital networking of health data is intended to ensure patient-oriented healthcare and simultaneously generate knowledge.Digital infrastructures are essential for the availability of treatment and research data. ...
Dealing with lower covid-19 levels will require improved understanding of what diagnostic tests are best used for. It will also need more accurate tests, but as testing demand will fall, delivering that needs incentiv...
Die digitale Vernetzung von Gesundheitsdaten soll eine patientenorientierte und gleichzeitig wissensgenerierende Gesundheitsversorgung sicherstellen. Digitale Infrastrukturen sind für diVerfügbarkeit von Daten aus V...
The EU project CORONADX has published a leaflet with a collection of common misconceptions on COVID-19 diagnostic tests to help citizens navigate between truth and falsehoods.
A video-interview with a senior researcher from the CORONADX project explains what PATHPOD is and discusses the advantages, use and perspectives of this device.
Six local guesthouse and restaurant owners attended TExTOUR’s focus group in Anfeh to talk about sustainable tourism, business strategy, heritage valorisation and tourism data collection and exploitation.
Untapped potential of improved diet, smoking and alcohol consumption in Slovakia: how can appropriate policies save thousands of lives and millions of euros