Organic farming

Organic farming opportunities in Europe

IFOAM EU’s Policy Manager, Eric Gall, spoke to The Innovation Platform about the benefits of organic farming, the European Commission’s Farm to Fork strategy...
sustainable Europe

Sustainable Europe: the future of the Common Agriculture Policy

Wolfgang Burtscher, Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development explains some of the key ways in which the...
Aviation Safety

EASA – the European Union’s strategy for aviation safety

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) tells The Innovation Platform about how the challenges posed by drones are being addressed. The challenges facing aviation...
animal genetic resources

The management and conservation of animal genetic resources

Coralie Danchin from the European Regional Focal Point for Animal Genetic Resources discusses some of the reasons why obtaining animal genetic resources is important. The...
biomedical engineering

The role of biomedical engineering during the COVID-19 pandemic

Amy Leary, marketing manager at eBOM, discusses the role of biomedical engineering, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biomedical engineering is a huge topic nowadays –...
energy efficient buildings

HempBlock: a better material for energy efficient buildings

Dave Burkey from iHemp USA LLC explains how the HempBlock can provide a better material for energy efficient buildings. There is a problem with buildings...

Innovative clocking schemes for semiconductor circuits

Masahiro Goshima, from the National Institute of Informatics, speaks to The Innovation Platform about the unique characteristics of their clocking scheme for semiconductor circuits. As...
cosmic rays

Searching for the sources of high energy cosmic rays

Professor Pierre Sokolsky of the Telescope Array Project speaks to The Innovation Platform about the significance of laboratory expansion in finding the source of...
flood disaster response

Innovative flood disaster response and mitigation through PPPs

For many years, public-private partnerships have been gaining increasingly more interest around the world, especially in the flood disaster response sector. Now more than ever,...
water contamination

Developing solutions to agricultural runoff and water contamination

Professor Bernd Lennartz from the University of Rostock investigates methods of reducing water contamination by developing solutions to agricultural runoff. Ground and surface water quality...