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The next STOA Panel meeting will take place on Thursday, 25 April 2024, in Strasbourg, room WEISS R5.1. The meeting will involve presentations of two studies: 'The role of R&I in ensuring a safe and sustainable supply of Critical Raw Materials in the EU' and 'The protection of mental privacy in the area of neuroscience - societal, legal and ethical challenges'.
The STOA event, held on 21 February 2024, invited participants to question who truly benefits from Open Science’s promise of transparency and societal impact? How does Open Science reshape our understanding of research excellence?
Robot applications, including 'collaborative robots' – cobots – designed to collaborate with humans, are in high demand, with sales and installation figures constantly on the rise. The STOA study presented the state of play of collaborative robotics, its benefits and disadvantages, with a special emphasis on key aspects such as safety. It described possible policy options to enable the EU to remain at the forefront of this technology.
The European Parliament's Forum for Academic Freedom launched a video series of interviews on academic freedom.
When bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to medicines: this is set to become one of the major health threats of the 21st century. Francesco Imperi, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Roma Tre University (Italy), is working on novel strategies to tackle this antimicrobial resistance (AMR), more specifically in multidrug resistant bacterial human pathogens.
Antimicrobial resistance is set to become one of the major health threats of the 21st century.