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...
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...
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.
By studying the biomechanics of cancer in the breast and bladder, the Mechanocontrol and Edit projects are developing new ways of cancer identification and treatment that could open up new avenues in cancer research
The CResPace project is developing a new pacemaker that works in conjunction with small artificial neural networks to better adapt to the demands of the body – replicating a healthy heart
Variants can affect the sensitivity of tests for SARS-CoV2. To make sure that current tests will still work we need to play hide-and-seek with an evolving virus
Even with the advent of vaccines, strategies for rapid and affordable testing for COVID-19 are still paramount. The lack of evidence that the current vaccines can completely stop people from being infected and the eme...
Luxembourg, 9 December 2020 – At an online European Parliament workshop hosted by Sirpa Pietikäinen, MEP (Finland), Alzheimer Europe launched a new report “Dementia as a European Priority – A Policy Overview”...
Luxembourg, 17 December 2020 – Alzheimer Europe today launched two new publications: “Intercultural dementia care for health and social care providers: a guide” and “Policy briefing on intercultural care and s...
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The EU-funded project PANBioRA aims to develop a method that can be applied to the standardized evaluation of biomaterials in order to assess intervention risks on several levels. After the first year of the project i...
The Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network, SKIN, continued its discovery trip among local good practices and innovative short food chains stories by meeting the people behind the short food supply chain ...
European scientists are studying a new generation of neuro-prostheses. The target patients are people with motor disabilities due to brain injuries, such as stroke
The Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network, SKIN, is where good practices and local stories of innovation in the short food chains domain are. This is the place where food plays an essential role in bring...
An ambitious initiative is taking its first steps towards setting up a European network on Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC), where food is conceived as a place for trust, where producers and society must meet for the e...