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Choosing walking, cycling or e-biking over a car trip just one day a week could help fight climate change.

A researcher funded through the European Research Council (ERC) was a key part of the team that made the startling discovery in the heart of Colombia’s Amazon rainforest. Amazingly, the collection consists of tens of thousands of paintings of humans and animals created on a canvas of cliff faces stretching around 12-13 kilometres and has invoked imaginations across the world.

As part of the continuing celebrations of reaching (and now passing) 100 issues of Research*eu magazine, CORDIS is proud to announce its latest and greatest social media photo competition – and of course, a competition means prizes!

Research*eu magazine has been one of the shining jewels in the CORDIS editorial crown now for 10 years and so, to mark our 100th issue, we’ve been taking a little trip down memory lane and we invite you, our dear readers, to come along with us.

The Soil Mission Support coordination and support action, launched in November 2020, will bring major research and innovation stakeholders in soil health and management together and promises to be a good supporting initiative for the proposed EU mission in the area of soil health and food.

To grow and prosper, European agriculture requires a steady flow of new entrants into the sector. However, new entrants often face a significant number of hurdles to overcome in order to develop sustainable farming businesses. The NEWBIE project has come forward with a dedicated toolkit to help them, as well as the development of dedicated support networks to promote innovative business and entry models to get them off to a flying start.

Striving to gain better insight into migration around the world, researchers have completed the first-ever systematic literature review that aims to answer two questions: What makes people want to migrate? What causes them to actually migrate?

A recent policy brief addresses persistent migration data gaps that hinder effective policymaking and recommends solutions.

A new report looks at Dominica, one of the Caribbean islands hardest hit by climate change, and how its laws and policies can contribute to climate-resilient development.

EU-funded climate researchers show how their method can better quantify the long-term effects of CO2 concentrations on the Earth’s climate.

An EU-funded consortium is holding six training sessions about integrating sex and gender in science and technology research. The online training series is being held to commemorate International Women’s Day 2021.

The 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign is paying tribute to the work done to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in Europe. The wide variety of activities on offer this year focus on sustainability and citizenship.

An EU-backed study has shown that less than 13 % of tech entrepreneurs are women in Ireland, Israel, Norway and Sweden.

An EU-funded project is proposing a new and interesting approach to tackling gender stereotypes in research and innovation: a board game whose aim is to win the Nobel Prize.

An EU-backed study has shown how easy it is for children to bypass the mechanisms that the most popular apps use to verify their age: all they have to do is lie.

An EU-backed company has developed a novel heart pump that can work in synchrony with the heart without the aid of sensors for over 30 days. This is the first time that a miniaturised pericardial pump has achieved this synchronisation.

We feature the GEARING ROLES project as our Project of the Month due to its intrepid work in the field of gender roles and gender equality in the research and innovation sectors. In particular, we’re highlighting their wonderful board game, ‘Nobel Run’, which tasks players with winning a Nobel Prize – with some help along the way from some of Europe (and the world’s) most prominent female scientists!

A significant body of evidence has highlighted that inequalities between European regions are growing rather than converging and this has increased since the end of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. The EU-funded IMAJINE project has set out to address these challenges through an interdisciplinary approach integrating numerous perspectives, from economics to human geography, political science and sociology.

An EU-funded project has reported 49 % growth in Europeans’ consumption of plant-based foods in 2 years.

A recent EU-funded study investigates the genetic factors common amongst people with both attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviour disorders (DBDs).