The world is facing a coronavirus epidemic. In an attempt to stop the spread of the virus, governments are taking steps to limit contacts and activities. As part of this effort, UCLouvain is launching an extensive survey to find out how and how containment affects the psychological and social well-being of the
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Bad news is piling up day after day about the global evolution of the coronavirus. Confinements are taking hold in the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people on every continent. Everybody's lives have changed in a matter of handfuls of days. Priorities have been turned upside down and everyone is faced with
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In these times of containment, with the spread of the coronavirus and the suspension of classes in schools, teleworking is encouraged in most companies. The result? Parents have to juggle their roles as parents and workers simultaneously. How can parental burnout be avoided? Two researchers
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Until now, official figures seemed to indicate that sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of more than 1 billion, had been lucky. The interactive map of reported cases of COVID-19, managed by Johns Hopkins University, shows large red spots almost everywhere - except in sub-Saharan Africa. But today, the first
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The coronavirus pandemic that has hit the world requires a war effort. On the front lines, biotech labs are working tirelessly to discover new weapons to treat and test affected patients and to contain the epidemic in the long term. European laboratories, which are among
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We are three days away from the first round of the municipal elections in France, marked by a political context punctuated by "business" and by the growing mistrust of citizens towards their leaders. In the context of these municipal elections, Transparency International France, the French section of the Main
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The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has appointed 24 of the world's leading experts on the social, economic and cultural challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) to draft internationally applicable recommendations on the ethical issues raised by the development and use of AI. These
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The EDF Pulse Startup Awards are back for a 7th edition. A new decade, a new ambition... but one constant objective: to support and reward startups that bring ideas that change everything! Do you have a project to help combat global warming? Your
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In the face of the climate emergency, NGOs are uniting in favour of a vast citizen movement for the planet. To do this, they are pooling their expertise in an unprecedented action group, hosted on the WAG - We Act for Good application, launched by WWF France: "Acting with NGOs". Its ambition? To call on all
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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Painting as a Field of Experimentation 1948-1958. A pioneer of abstraction, Lygia Clark (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1920-Río de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988) was a fundamental artist of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition offers a new analysis of the formative years of the artist's life, a crucial period that was to become the first of the 20th century's most important periods.
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The association ENGAGE has just launched the Biodiversity Challenge. Objective? To turn ten medium-sized businesses into "biodiversity pioneers". The launch of the call for applications for the Biodiversity Challenge, initiated on February 26th during the Gilles Boeuf Action Conference, is official! More than 70 people - citizens, journalists, employees, etc. - took part in the event.
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A former engineering student at ISAE-SUPAERO, Maxime Efoui-Hess has made the defence of the climate his personal and professional leitmotiv. Convinced that engineers have a major role to play in protecting the environment, the young graduate has taken the sidelines by joining The Shift Project, a lobby group that aims to promote the protection of the environment.
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The Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation launches their call for projects "Feeding the Future" 2020. Like the previous one, this call for projects is aimed at structures based in France, of general interest and eligible for sponsorship. Our food, from seeds to compost, is at the crossroads of multiple (dis)balances, nutritional, socio-economic, etc., and is therefore a source of great concern for the future.
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"This Greenpeace advertisement was banned from the Paris metro and cinema networks. The NGO wanted once again to denounce the inaction of political leaders in the face of the climate emergency. In its press release, Greenpeace reports that the statement was judged "to have been made by the court of justice".
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Beijing has announced a "complete" ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals, a practice suspected to be at the root of the coronavirus outbreak that began in December in central China and now threatens the world with a pandemic. This announcement is good news for the advocates of
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Climate change, junk food, marketing by tobacco and alcohol companies, ... Children's health is under "immediate threat" everywhere and no country in the world is adequately protecting their future, warns the United Nations (UN). Progress has been made over the past 20 years to protect children's health.
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The question of the effectiveness and limitations of a diagnostic AI arises, from a technical, but also ethical and legal point of view. On February 27, the Aristotle Association is organizing a seminar on the relationship between AI and health. In what way is this sector deeply shaken by the arrival of these new technologies?
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The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (1), FADEAR, the CIVAM Network, FNCUMA and the TRAME network are joining forces to promote, through a call for projects, a massive transition towards agroecology through exchange and sharing between farmers' collectives. Objective: to support the exchange of experiences between farmers' collectives.
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The i-Nov Innovation Contest of the Future Investment Program (PIA) aims to support innovative projects of SMEs and start-ups and thus promote the accelerated emergence of companies that are leaders in their field. Submit your projects before May 12, 2020 to obtain funding. As an operator of the Investment for the Future Program
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The CNIL and Inria awarded the 2019 prize for the protection of privacy to a European research team at the 13th International Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference on 22 January. Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Abbas Razaghpanah, Juan Tapiador and Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez presented the award.
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