Advanced materials are designed to deliver superior performance for specific functionalities and are essential to Europe’s autonomy, competitiveness, and resilience.

Artificial intelligence can significantly enhance emergency and crisis management across Europe through applications like early warning systems, damage assessment, and analytical support, but requires careful ethical oversight, human control, standardized data frameworks, and recognition of its limitations in novel or morally complex situations.

For decades, technologies have been proposed that would reduce or counteract global warming by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth. These proposals, known as “solar radiation modification” technologies, include stratospheric aerosol injection, cloud brightening, and others.

Human health, animal health, plant health and the health of our environment are deeply connected, forming a single common system. Policymakers need to recognise these connections, and do more to seek optimal outcomes for people, animals, the environment, and the ecosystems that we are all part of, rather than taking a narrow anthropocentric view.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionise scientific discovery, accelerate research progress, boost innovation and improve researchers’ productivity. The EU must take hold of the opportunities this brings, and in a timely way. But it must also respond to the challenges and risks associated with this fast-evolving technology.

For Europe to achieve its health and sustainability goals, the way we produce and consume food has to change.

Improving crisis management has become an essential issue for protecting and enhancing present and future wellbeing in the EU and globally.

Organised cancer screening programmes save lives. The earlier a cancer is diagnosed, the greater the chances of treating it successfully and straightforwardly.