Reports and statements

EASAC publishes detailed reports, shorter statements, and makes contributions to scientific journals. All EASAC documents are issued jointly by the member Academies and are theirs to use and communicate.

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Infectious Diseases and the Future: Policies for Europe

Summaries of the EASAC report: European Public Health and Innovation Policy for Infectious Disease: The View from EASAC …

Impact of Engineered Nanomaterials on Health: Considerations for Benefit-Risk Assessment

Nanotechnology and its importance for Europe Nanotechnology encompasses the design, characterisation, production and…

European Public Health and iInnovation Policy for Infectious Disease: the View from EASAC

There have been major advances during the past century in research into and treatment of infectious disease. However,…

Realising European Potential in Synthetic Biology: Scientific Opportunities and Good Governance

Synthetic biology covers the design and construction of novel biological components, systems and processes "that are not…

Groundwater in the Southern Member States of the European Union

Summary: What is the importance of groundwater for Europe? When rain or snow falls on land, some of the water runs…

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases in Europe

Climate exerts both direct and indirect effects on the appearance and spread of human and animal infectious diseases.…

Transforming Europe's Electricity Supply

Abstract: European energy policy seeks to achieve a substantially increased contribution from renewable sources of…

Healthcare-associated Infections: the View from EASAC

Healthcare-associated infections are an increasing problem for the European Union. Many Member States are spending a…

Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

Worldwide, more than nine million people develop active tuberculosis (TB) every year, with 1.7 million dying from the…

Ecosystems Services and Biodiversity in Europe

Abstract: The life support systems that are provided by the environment (ecosystem services) are undervalued by…

Combating the Threat of Zoonotic Infections

Abstract: Most new human pathogens reported in the past 25 years, such as influenza and SARS, have zoonotic origins.…

Use of Non-human Primates

Abstract: EASAC believes there is a need for carefully selected research questions to be answered with the use of…

Migration and Infectious Diseases

Abstract: The healthcare screening and treatment processes for migrants entering the EU need to be better evaluated…

Study on the EU Oil Shale Industry

Abstract: A study on the EU oil shale industry – viewed in the light of the Estonian experience A report by EASAC to…

Tackling Antibacterial Resistance in Europe

Abstract: Deaths from previously treatable infections will become more common unless there is investment in the…

EU Gas Markets Workshop

Abstract: In October 2006 EASAC organised a workshop in the European Parliament at the request of the Indistry,…

Vaccines: Innovation and Human Health

Abstract: EASAC published on 9 May 2006 a report on vaccines: innovation and human health. The report focuses on the…

Price-setting in the EU Electricity Markets

Abstract: In February 2006 EASAC produced a study of price-setting in the EU electricity markets on behalf of the…

Bureaucracy in the 6th Framework Programme

Abstract: On 22 February 2006 the European Parliament held a workshop to examine the effect that the bureaucracy…

Infectious Diseases - Importance of Co-ordinated Activity in Europe

Abstract: EASAC published on 14 June 2005 a report on infectious diseases and the need for co-ordinated activity in…

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