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On 5 June, the world marked World Environment Day under the theme "Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future." Hosted this year by Azerbaijan in Baku, the 2026 edition placed one question at its centre: the Earth is sending us signals. What signal are we sending back? Since 1973, this annual platform led by the United Nations Environment Programme has been one of the few moments when global mobilisation around environmental challenges genuinely converges. In 2026, with the eleven...

On 11 February 2026, the INNOAQUA project held a webinar on algae-based integrated aquaculture. Around fifty participants were expected. The session ended with 173 people connected from Europe and South-East Asia. That number says something. When the European Aquaculture Society, an INNOAQUA partner, set up this event with international research institutions, the premise was straightforward: bring European and Asian expertise together around a shared question, algae-based innovation for...

On 20 May, World Bee Day, one number deserves attention: three quarters of the world's leading food crops depend on pollinators. Not a slogan, but the quiet foundation of European food security. Bees and other pollinators face mounting pressure from habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change. Their decline is not only a biodiversity question. It is a question of viability for the agricultural systems we are building. The BIOFAIRNET project works across two sectors that face this dependency...