France takes over EPTA presidency for 2015
Following Norway in 2014, the French parliamentary TA office OPECST (Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques) serves as the president of EPTA in 2015.
Therefore this years directors’s meeting will be held in Pont-à-Mousson/Lorraine in April and the Council meeting in Paris in September. The OPECST celebrates this year its 30th anniversary.
New Projects from EPTA members
- The potential and risks of using AI agents (DE)
- The spread of antibiotic resistance and new options for combating it (DE)
- Data management in the Austrian public sector (AT)
- Interoperability and digital autonomy (NL)
- Does convenience serve people? (NL)
- Medical Wearables in Clinical Decision-making Technology Assessment (US)
- AI use in the cultural and media industries: social, economic and legal aspects (DE)
Recent Policy Briefs from EPTA members
- How could quantum computers undermine digital security? (GB)
- Cybersecurity in the research process (DE)
- CO₂ transportation infrastructure and markets (EU)
- Supply chains for low carbon electricity infrastructure (GB)
- How reliant is the UK on other countries for critical space-based technologies? (GB)
- Who decides how land is used? Collaboration in multifunctional land-use decisions (GB)
- Livestreamed child sexual abuse: Scale, detection and how it can be disrupted (GB)