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Carlos Moedas
I fully support you in this endeavour. Your strong commitment towards Europe is very much welcomed.
Carlos Moedas Mayor of Lisbon - Former European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve Portrait
New technologies have repeatedly disrupted established cultures of communication. It took about two-and-a-half centuries to get the cultures of copyright, the laws of defamation, the conceptions of intellectual property, that reconciled – to some extent – what was done by the arrival of printing.
Onora Sylvia O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
Alain Lamassoure Portrait
The European Union has fulfilled is historic mission. Bravo! But this was the challenge of last century. New century. New world. New challenge.
Alain Lamassoure Member of the European Parliament
Dirk Inzé Portrait
Genome editing has the potential to make a critical contribution to make food systems more sustainable and more resilient to climate change.
Dirk Inzé Full Professor at Ghent University, Scientific Director of the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and Coordinator of the EU-SAGE (European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing) network
Martin Grötschel Portrait
Academies should play a stronger role in these issues because they can provide broad interdisciplinary knowledge-base and expertise in order to analyse the issues that are arising and to arrive at recommendations for their solutions.
We have taken democracy for granted. Reality is that those things we have taken for granted are no more.
Anthony Gooch Director of Public Affairs & Communications at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Žiga Turk Portrait
The democratic systems that we have today have changed too little to respond to technological change. At the same time, they have changed too much for the nature of man, that is much less plastic.
Žiga Turk Professor in Construction Informatics at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering at the University of Ljubljana