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Episode 3 of WWF France's "The Panda Effect" Podcast series has just been released: a new episode entitled "Innovations in the service of the oceans" plunges the listener into the heart of unknown territory since only 5% of the seabed has been explored. Immediate embarkation... and new sound for the first three podcasts.

On April 1, the United Nations announced that the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) scheduled to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 was postponed to next year because of the VIDOC-19 crisis. Following this decision, the Chair of the Environment Committee, from

No containment for ideas! It is once again possible to follow the inescapable and popular MOOC of Bertrand Badie, politician and professor at Sciences Po, "Espace Mondial", free of charge and with free access, on a new international platform, Coursera. 22,000 fans: more than a Beyoncé concert at Bercy.

The Assembly votes on the article on the state of health emergency. Adopted by a show of hands after several hours of discussion, the article provides that a state of public health emergency, which makes it possible to restrict public freedoms (confinement, requisitioning, etc.), must be introduced as soon as the law comes into force, and for two months. This article provides, in particular, for

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Department of Research and Teaching of the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac launches its call for applications for the "Thesis Prize 2020". Objective: to encourage and support research work in the fields of Western and extra-Western arts, tangible and intangible heritage, museum institutions and the arts.

Aimed at young PhDs or PhD students wishing to enhance their research results through technology transfer projects, the i-PhD competition launched by MESRI in partnership with Bpifrance has just announced its results on Thursday 6 February during the stage of the DeepTech Tour in Paris-Saclay. Among the winners

The world's largest hub dedicated to collaborative robotics will open its doors in early 2022 in Denmark. The Danish Minister of Industry, Economy and Finance, Simon Kollerup, unveiled this week the new "cobotics hub" that will bring together in Odense the next Mobile

While digital opens up opportunities, it is also very energy-intensive. With the launch of the Exaion startup, EDF is continuing its support for start-ups that create alternatives to reduce the carbon footprint of our activities. The third startup incubated by EDF Pulse Croissance in less than three years, Exaion offers a range of products and services that are designed to reduce the carbon footprint of our activities.

Access to citizenship, culture and knowledge are now closely linked to digital access. The National Digital Council publishes a report on digital accessibility, a study on scenarios for improving digital accessibility between February 2019 and January 2020. In the run-up to the National Conference

The city of Valenciennes inaugurates today, Thursday 6 February 2020, the Nungesser Aquatic Centre, a unique, symbolic and sustainable facility designed and built by Jacques Rougerie Architectes Associés (1) in collaboration with the agency In Situ (2) in Valenciennes. Located on the site of the former football stadium in the heart of the city, the Nungesser Aquatic Centre is a unique, symbolic and sustainable facility designed and built by Jacques Rougerie Architectes Associés (1) in collaboration with the In Situ agency (2) in Valenciennes.

Faced with generational fractures and the "breakdown" of the social lift, the EESC launches its referral "New generations: what promises for what future? "with the participation of 30 citizens drawn by lot. This referral is in line with the issues revealed by the Great National Debate.

Following the success of the first session in 2019, AgroParisTech and ADEME, with the support of Agreenium, are launching a second session enriched by the MOOC "Towards the environmental performance of food products". Aimed at players and companies in the agri-food sector, this online course aims to help them