Event

30 May

Stockholm Convention Regional Centre: Inventory validation meeting in Georgia

Half-way milestone in the project implementation was achieved on 27 May 2025 with a successfully completed Inventory validation meeting held in the Rooms Hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia. The meeting was supported by the GEF project 10785 (Global Review and Update of the National Implementation Plans under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants) and organized in collaboration with the Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC Caucasus), Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia (MEPA) and the Stockholm Convention Regional Centre hosted at RECETOX.

EventPress release

29 May

Science changes data. Data changes science

Brno hosted the Research Data Day 2025 & EOSC National Tripartite Event. On May 21–22, 2025, Brno hosted the international conference Research Data Day & EOSC National Tripartite Event, bringing together leading figures of European research, data science experts, representatives of research infrastructures, and science policy makers. One of the keynote speakers on research infrastructures was director of RECETOX Jana Klánová.

Press releaseResearch

28 May

Rising temperatures will have a significant impact on the workload of emergency medical services

High temperatures are a significant risk factor for human health. In 2022 and 2023 alone, they were responsible for more than 109,000 deaths in Europe, and this number is expected to rise significantly in the coming years. The trend of rising temperatures will also have a significant impact on the workload of emergency medical services, according to a study involving researchers from RECETOX centre.

Event

26 May

Protecting children’s health – Addressing chemical exposures

“Up to 90% of disease risks are linked to our environment – and these environmental risk factors are largely preventable but they remain largely unmeasured and underregulated” said Martine Vrijheid, ATHLETE research project coordinator and head of ISGlobal’s Environment and Health over the Lifecourse programme, at a science briefing at the European Parliament on 13 May 2025.

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