Meetings

The PREPSOIL project, a pivotal initiative within the EU's Mission Soil framework, will host an engaging webinar on February 13, 2025, focusing on the importance of soil literacy among young people. The event highlights the vital connection between young citizens and soil health, offering educators innovative ways to integrate soil-related topics into their curriculum.

The webinar is open to educators, environmental professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in fostering soil literacy. Register today to join this vital conversation and contribute to a sustainable future for our soils and ecosystems.

Date: February 13, 2025 Time: 15:00 – 16:00 CET Location: Online

On January 21st, the Thalassemia International Federation (TIF) and BGI Genomics jointly hosted an educational webinar focused on thalassemia prevention in high-prevalence regions. Experts emphasized that high throughput sequencing technologies can accelerate prevention efforts.

First Mount Sinai faculty member to hold this prestigious position

The Aging Research and Drug Discovery (ARDD) Meeting is thrilled to announce that Morten Meldal, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, and Michael Levitt, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University will join the lineup of distinguished speakers for the 12th Aging Research & Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD2025), the World's Largest Conference on Aging Research in the biopharmaceutical industry that will transpire on August 25 - August 29, 2025 on-site at the Ceremonial Hall, University of Copenhagen, and online.

The school will bring together international specialists from research centers and healthtechs to discuss precision health’s state-of-the-art as accomplished through translational/comparative approaches and One Health vision.

Artificially intelligent systems and robots are becoming ubiquitous in our lives, including automated vehicles, delivery robots, and AI assistants. However, as research and development on this field increasingly turns towards imbuing such systems with artificial awareness, we must ask ourselves: what are the ethical implications of doing so? How can challenges, benefits and responsibilities be defined across stakeholders, from developers and policymakers to end-users? And how do we ensure that these technologies align with societal values while mitigating risks?

These pressing topics formed the focus of the 2nd Workshop "Inside the Ethics of AI Awareness," held at Uppsala University on November 11, 2024. Organised by the SymAware consortium alongside other EIC-funded projects in the “Awareness Inside” portfolio, the workshop addressed topics such as the governance of AI ethics, ethical dimensions of multi-agent systems, and the implications of designing value-aware and metacognitive AI systems.

Participants engaged in an interactive workshop on ethical considerations, exploring how these technologies can be responsibly integrated into society. Discussions focused on key stakeholders, such as policymakers, developers, and the public, as well as the potential risks and benefits associated with aware AI, including transparency, accountability, and human-AI collaboration.

Committed to furthering the engagement between researchers and practitioners, the ForestPaths project organised the next edition of the Policy Engagement Forum in November 2024. The online meeting was dedicated to showcases and discussions on Climate and Biodiversity-Smart approaches to forest management. Those were linked to the mitigation potential of forested areas in relation to climate change and biodiversity loss.