Findings and recommendations from the Smart Villages Initiative 2014–2017 (2018)

This summary of key findings and recommendations of the Smart Villages Initiative over the period 2014–2017 is intended to inform policy-makers and development organisations in the European...

The Global Arctic: The Sustainability of Communities in the Context of Changing Ocean Systems (2018)

The Arctic is being profoundly transformed by climate change. This has implications on terrestrial and marine ecosystems, affecting those who live on and from them. It is time to develop a...

Realizing our Digital Future and Shaping its Impact on Knowledge, Industry, and the Workforce (2018)

Digital technologies are transforming the early 21st century, leading to the creation of entirely new industries based upon machine learning and artificial intelligence and lowering barriers...

Negative emission technologies (2018)

Climate scenarios that keep global warming within Paris Agreement limits rely on large-scale application of technologies that can remove CO2 from the air on a huge scale. This is necessary...

Consolidation of science and research collaborations between the United Kingdom and the other European countries (2018)

Good practice in the evaluation of researchers and research programmes (2017)

The large increase in the size of the international scientific community, coupled with the desire to ensure the appropriate and efficient use of the substantial funding devoted to supporting...

Linking Science, Society, Business and Policy for the Sustainable Use of Abandoned Mines in the SADC Region (2017)

Conclusions by the the conference delegates after having deliberated on the sustainable use of abandoned mines in the SADC Region, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28–30 November 2017

How Do We Want to Live Tomorrow? (2017)

More than half of the human population currently lives in urban areas and according to the United Nations, cities will be the living space of an additional 2.5 billion people by the year...

Cultural heritage: building resilience to natural disasters (2017)

This statement focuses an the resilience of cultural heritage to natural disasters. Man-made disasters are excluded from consideration, although the devastation they induce is often...