Society

Two consortia will be delivering pilot long-term data preservation solutions to meet the growing needs of research communities in Europe and beyond.

How employable are doctorate holders? Do the skills they acquire match the skills needed for employment? How valuable is their degree? An EU-funded survey has the answers.

How can Irish family farms become more viable, and how can the younger generation be encouraged to commit to the family business? Through organic farming, says a new EU-funded study.

When tragedy strikes, it can leave its victims suffering a sudden change in hair tone – if folk tales are to be believed. Our expert Daniel Nettle teases out the truth from the myth.

There are so many stories of how damaging our digital lives can be, from promoting unrealistic lifestyle goals to the skewing of elections. So, this episode we are shifting the narrative. We’ll be taking a look at three applications that make a real difference to people’s lives. This where our impulse to perform random acts of kindness meets the power of AI.

For the past 10 years, Research*eu magazine has chronicled the most interesting, innovative and important EU-funded science being carried out across the world.

EU-backed researchers perform extensive experiment to shed light on inequality in the workplace.

A set of EU-funded surveys has revealed a surprisingly high acceptance of water and nutrient reuse in three European countries.

A quarter of Europeans experience some form of long-standing limitation to their physical activity. Yet information about a building’s accessibility is often missing, out-of-date, or simply incorrect. Irish start-up Access Earth is hoping to change that by offering better information to both citizens and local authorities.

How do protection mechanisms in place for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers translate in practice? An EU-funded project reports.

EU-backed scientists shed light on how people transmit and decode complex facial signals.

The annual celebration of people with disabilities falls on 3 December this year and CORDIScovery will be talking to three projects that are making a difference.

EU-backed project delivers fact sheets on the state of play of natural capital accounting (NCA) in 10 European countries.

EU-funded researchers used computer simulation to study the properties of active glassy systems and how they behave under strain.

An EU-backed project turned to gamification to present its new tools that are designed to safeguard historic areas in Europe from climate change.

An EU-funded project is encouraging debate on responsible robotics to promote widespread social acceptance of AI-based robotic technologies in four key areas.

A digital platform called Gift is allowing visitors to the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) to share climate issues and themes of interest with friends and loved ones.

Do ordinary citizens believe claims made online about social media and its effects on teen mental health? EU-backed researchers conducted a survey to find out and to see how willing people are to fact-check.

It’s always enlightening to see the village or city you live in as it was long before you were born. For people living in the Arctic however, this is very difficult if not downright impossible. The ARCVIS project aimed to right this wrong by digging into archives from the 19th century.

Piecing together the puzzle of socio-economic relationships in the Middle Ages by tracing the use of three media – what can cloth, glass and stone tell us about the societies that created, traded and appreciated them?