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The next Panel meeting will take place on Thursday, 23 October 2025, at 9:30 a.m. in Strasbourg, room WEISS S2.2. The meeting will feature a presentation of external report on 'The potential roles of E-Fuels in contributing to achieving EU Climate Neutrality by 2050: A Systemic Assessment' The event will be webstreamed, the link will be published below.
The European Parliament Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) has published its Annual Report of 2024. Next to an overview of its activities, it contains a foreword by MEP Victor Negrescu, Vice-President of the European Parliament responsible for STOA, and a preface by STOA Chair and MEP Christian Ehler.

Press release - A high-level debate on how research and innovation's contribution to Europe's competitiveness, sovereignty, and capacity to respond to global challenges, took place on Wednesday. The high-level summit, organised by the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) together with the G6 network, the informal grouping of the six biggest scientific research organisations of Europe.
On 24-26 June 2025, the European Science-Media Hub (ESMH) of the European Parliament is organising a Summer School in Brussels, ‘Science Communication in the Digital Age’. Young journalists between 18 and 39 years old have been invited following a call for application published earlier this year.

At this year's STOA's high-level conference 'Perspectives on academic freedom in Europe and beyond', participants and speakers such as European Parliament President Roberta Metsola and European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva explored how academic freedom can be best supported. In this video you can watch some of the highlights of the conference. You can also listen to the podcast (link below).

What alternatives are there to meat and dairy? What are their pros and cons? New interactive knowledge map visualises the findings of the recent STOA study "Alternative protein sources for food and feed".