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Hosted by the EEA and the European Centre for Governance in Complexity (ECGC), this webinar followed the launch of the EEA report ‘Governance in Complexity: Sustainability Governance under Highly Uncertain and Complex Conditions’ with a panel debate with four distinguished panellists around the systemic and complex nature of sustainability challenges and the knowledge and governance responses needed to deal with them: • Claire Dupont, Research Professor of European Governance and sustainability transformations, Ghent University; Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency • Ruth Richardson, Executive Director, Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment (ASRA) • Laurent Bontoux, Senior Foresight for Policy Expert, EC-Joint Research Centre • Liselotte Jensen, Policy Analyst, European Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS)

The P-A-R-C Consortium meeting was held in Tirol, Austria rom May 13 to 16 2014. As part of the conference, the PARC exhibition Healthy Horizons: Our Journey to Create a Safer Chemical World was launched there. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation. For further information please visit https://www.eu-parc.eu/

Welcome to the second day of the CLMS General Assembly 2024 The event is taking place from June 3 to 5 in Antwerp, Belgium. Thanks to its hybrid format, participants can also join remotely and follow the event online. We will live stream most of the event on the EEA's YouTube channel, where you can also ask your questions in the comment section. You can find the agenda and more information here: https://clms-general-assembly.mailerpage.io/

How prepared is Europe for rapidly growing climate risks?

The PARC exhibition Healthy Horizons: Our Journey to Create a Safer Chemical World was launched during the recent PARC Consortium meeting, held from May 13 to 16 in Hall in Tirol, Austria. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation. The screen shows how we showed the PARC research projects on the exhibition.

The PARC exhibition Healthy Horizons: Our Journey to Create a Safer Chemical World was launched during the recent PARC Consortium meeting, held from May 13 to 16 in Hall in Tirol, Austria. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation. The exhibition featured a series of informative displays, different type of postcards promoting PARC scientific publications, the European Human Biomonitoring Laboratory Network, and PARCopedia ↗. Touch screens highlighted the critical work being undertaken by PARC, such as various research projects ↗. Microscopic images ↗ were shown on a screen to make science accessible to everyone and help them understand the impact of chemicals on our health and ecosystems. These images demonstrated the work and findings of PARC researchers in laboratories. One highlight was an interactive installation titled “Visualising Your Opinion on Chemicals,” which dynamically changed based on participants' responses. Participants were asked to answer different questions by weaving their choices around various options. Specifically, they could choose among 10 chemicals and rate the health risks associated with exposure, the environmental impact, and whether EU regulations adequately address these risks. This installation evolved with participants’ answers, creating a visual representation of collective insights. From the live graph, some preliminary conclusions were drawn: PFAS, pesticides, and mycotoxins were the substances most frequently commented on, with most opinions indicating that they pose a high or moderate risk to both health and the environment. Additionally, most participants expressed that current EU regulations do not adequately address the risks of these chemicals. Another chemical of interest was microplastics. The responses were highly varied, with some participants rating them as high risk and others considering them to pose no or minimal risk. Additionally, a survey with 10 questions was displayed to better understand how to improve certain aspects, such as identifying the challenges in translating chemical research into actionable regulatory policies. The survey also aimed to discover the daily attitudes of scientists working on chemical risk assessment. Participants were confronted with questions such as whether they would buy a raincoat they love if there was no chemical information on the label and it might contain PFAS, whether they have ever participated in a human biomonitoring study, and whether they consciously avoid foods known to contain higher levels of harmful chemicals. By transforming complex data into engaging visual narratives, we make the information accessible and impactful for a diverse audience. With this way to display data and the use of visual storytelling we want to highlight the significance of our findings and the real-world implications of our work. For more details about the exhibition, please visit P-A-R-C Exhibition | Flickr ↗ and Seeing the unseen: Microscopy reveals the impact of chemicals | Flickr ↗.

The PARC exhibition Healthy Horizons: Our Journey to Create a Safer Chemical World was launched during the recent PARC Consortium meeting, held from May 13 to 16 in Hall in Tirol, Austria. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation.

The PARC exhibition Healthy Horizons: Our Journey to Create a Safer Chemical World was launched during the recent PARC Consortium meeting, held from May 13 to 16 in Hall in Tirol, Austria. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation.

The PARC exhibition Healthy Horizons: Our Journey to Create a Safer Chemical World was launched during the recent PARC Consortium meeting, held from May 13 to 16 in Hall in Tirol, Austria. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation. The exhibition featured a series of informative displays, different type of postcards promoting PARC scientific publications, the European Human Biomonitoring Laboratory Network, and PARCopedia. Touch screens highlighted the critical work being undertaken by PARC, such as various research projects. Microscopy images were shown on a screen to make science accessible to everyone and help them understand the impact of chemicals on our health and ecosystems. These images demonstrated the work and findings of PARC researchers in laboratories. One highlight was an interactive installation titled “Visualising Your Opinion on Chemicals,” which dynamically changed based on participants' responses. Participants were asked to answer different questions by weaving their choices around various options. Specifically, they could choose among 10 chemicals and rate the health risks associated with exposure, the environmental impact, and whether EU regulations adequately address these risks. This installation evolved with participants’ answers, creating a visual representation of collective insights. Additionally, a survey with 10 questions was displayed to better understand how to improve certain aspects, such as identifying the challenges in translating chemical research into actionable regulatory policies. The survey also aimed to discover the daily attitudes of scientists working on chemical risk assessment. Participants were confronted with questions such as whether they would buy a raincoat they love if there was no chemical information on the label and it might contain PFAS, whether they have ever participated in a human biomonitoring study, and whether they consciously avoid foods known to contain higher levels of harmful chemicals. By transforming complex data into engaging visual narratives, we make the information accessible and impactful for a diverse audience. With this way to display data and the use of visual storytelling we want to highlight the significance of our findings and the real-world implications of our work.

The PARC exhibition ‘Healthy horizons: Our journey to create a safer chemical world’ was launched during the recent PARC Consortium meeting, from the 13 until the 16 May in Hall in Tirol, Austria. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation. For further information please visit https://www.eu-parc.eu/

The PARC exhibition ‘Healthy horizons: Our journey to create a safer chemical world’ was launched during the recent PARC Consortium meeting, from the 13 until the 16 May in Hall in Tirol, Austria. This exhibition showcased our ongoing efforts and collaborative initiatives aimed at fostering a safer and healthier environment through innovative chemical risk assessment research and regulation.

As part of the PARC exhibition Healthy Horizons: Our journey to create a safer chemical world that was held from May 13 to 16 in Hall in Tirol, Austria, microscope images were shown on a screen to make science accessible to everyone and help them understand the impact of chemicals on our health and ecosystems. These images demonstrated the work and findings of PARC researchers in laboratories. PARC aims to develop next-generation chemical risk assessment to protect human health and the environment. It supports the European Union's Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability and the European Green Deal's “Zero pollution” ambition with new data, knowledge, methods and tools, expertise and networks.

Welcome to the 1st CLMS General Assembly, which brings together over 300 participants both online and in person, including industry experts, researchers, and policymakers. The event is taking place from June 3 to 5 in Antwerp, Belgium. Thanks to its hybrid format, participants can also join remotely and follow the event online. We will live stream most of the event on the EEA's YouTube channel, where you can also ask your questions in the comment section. You can find the agenda and more information here: https://clms-general-assembly.mailerpage.io/