About three quarters of the population in the EU are urbanites. Are you living in an inclusive area, with parks and public spaces you and the other local residents have had a say in designing? Or is that something that seems out of your reach? Nature-based solutions, or NBSs, co-creation, living labs – what do these terms mean and why are they important? Let’s turn to our three guests today, all of whom benefited from research and innovation funding: Darko Ferčej is head of the EU project Unit within the Slovenian non-profit institute, E-zavod. His area of interest is transforming policy theories into practical changes that benefit people’s lives in urban environments. Laura Fregolent is professor of Urban Planning at the University of Venice in Italy. Over the years she has investigated the processes of urban transformation and sprawl, and the social impact of housing dynamics. Gonçalo Canto Moniz is a professor of Architecture and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. He is fascinated by the way co-creation of nature-based solutions within our cities can promote more inclusive urban neighbourhoods.
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Knowledge, capital and labour – networks of exchange
From early economic activity along the Silk Road to modern-day Brazil, what are the unexpected impacts of the movement of labour and the flow of capital? Taking one market as an example, how can pharma be made more equitable? As the words ‘tariffs’, ‘economic growth’, ‘global trade’ and ‘sanctions’ fly around us, the economy and how markets are interlinked is something we are all growing more aware of.Listen on as our three guests unravel some of the complexities: Sitta von Reden is professor of Ancient History at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Paula Bustos is research professor at Pompeu Fabra University, and Susi Geiger is professor of Markets, Organisations and Society at the College of Business, University College Dublin.
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Meeting the challenges of cyber disinformation
Remember when you could wander around the internet, fairly confident that what you were looking at was probably reliable? Over the years it seems that information is becoming less and less trustworthy and with deepfakes and biased algorithms it’s starting to feel like the disinformation might be around every corner.Here to help us navigate the maze are three researchers, who have all received support from EU science funding: Owen Conlan, is a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics.He is also co-director of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities. Owen is very interested in user control over personalised AI-driven systems.Joana Gonçalves-Sá is a researcher both at the Nova Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics and in the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Lisbon, where she leads the Social Physics and Complexity research group. Her focus in on human and algorithmic biases, using fake news as a model system.Marián Šimko is an expert researcher at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies in Slovakia. Marián focuses on natural language processing, information extraction, low-resource language processing and the interpretability of neural models.
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Cricket burgers – shaking up the protein supply chain
Melted cheese over a burger – is your stomach rumbling? How about making that cheese from plant protein and the burger from insects? We need to develop ways to produce more existing sources of protein more efficiently. Animal-based protein has an important role as part of a sustainable diet and as a contributor to food security. But now is the timefor alternative sources of complementary protein for direct human consumption, and animal feed, to increase their market share. In this episode we are going to be looking at how to increase the production and market uptake of complementary proteins, with:Emanuele Zannini who has a PhD in Applied Biomolecular Science and is now a senior researcher coordinator at the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork. Tuen Veldkamp, a senior researcher in Animal Nutrition at Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and who is interested in testing and demonstrating innovative rearing methods to help the European insect supply chain become commercially viable.Erlend Sild the founder of the deep-tech company, BugBox, who has developed an industrial and scalable technology forsustainable protein production from crickets, providing competitive production costs and increasing efficiency using AI.
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Fires, asteroids and chemical agents – new tools to keep us safer
What can surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy tell us about the presence of novichok? How can we improve our understanding of how asteroids respond to the tactics we may need to deploy for planetary defence? And as incidences of wildfires grow, how can Europe’s response be more effective? Listen on to hear the answers to these and many other key questions. Joining us for this episode are: Patrick Michel, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in the Côte d’Azur Observatory in Nice. He is involved in space missions to asteroids, for both science and planetary defence purposes and is the principal investigator of the European Space Agency’s Hera mission, which contributes to the first asteroid deflection test through NASA’s DART mission. Emilio Chuvieco, professor of Geography and director of the Environmental Ethics chair at the University of Alcalá, Spain, and his main interest is the use of Earth Observation data to monitor environmental problems, particularly forest fires. Tomas Rindzevicius, a senior researcher in the Department of Health Technology, Drug Delivery and Sensing, at the Technical University of Denmark, who focuses on the application of nanomaterials for sensing applications to detect trace amounts of explosives, toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents.
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