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EPRS | European Parliamentary Research ServiceScientific Foresight Unit (STOA)

PE 634.429 – 20 March 2019EN

STOA/LIBEworkshopIsartificialintelligenceahumanrightsissue?Participants’booklet

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Is artificialintelligence a

human rights issue?

Participants’ booklet

20 March 2019, 9:30-12:30

Paul-Henri Spaak Building, Room 4B1

European Parliament, Brussels

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STOA | Panel for the Future of Science and Technology

Prepared by Mihalis Kritikos, Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA)

Available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/events/upcoming/20190228WKS02301/is-artificial-intelligence-a-human-right

Join the conversation on Twitter by using the hashtag #AIHumanRightsSTOA and by tweeting at@EP_ScienceTech

© European Union, 2019

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Table of contents

1. Programme ___________________________________________________________________________________2

2. Introduction___________________________________________________________________________________3

3. Speakers' biographies ___________________________________________________________________________5

3.1. Eva KAILI, MEP & STOA Chair ___________________________________________________________________5

3.2. Michał BONI, MEP, MEP, STOA Panel member and member of LIBE Committee __________________________6

3.3. Marietje SCHAAKE, MEP _______________________________________________________________________7

3.4. Professor Jason M. SCHULTZ, NYU School of Law___________________________________________________8

3.5. Ekkehard ERNST, International Labour Organisation (ILO) ____________________________________________8

3.6. Joanna GOODEY, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights ____________________________________9

3.7. Dimitris PANOPOULOS, Suite 5 _________________________________________________________________9

3.8. Lofred MADZOU, World Economic Forum (WEF) __________________________________________________10

3.9. Silkie CARLO, Big Brother Watch _______________________________________________________________10

3.10. Lorena Jaume-Palasi, Ethical Tech Society ______________________________________________________11

3.11. Can YEGINSU, 4 New Square Chambers ________________________________________________________11

3.12. Professor Aimee VAN WYNSBERGHE, TU Delft ___________________________________________________12

3.13. Fanny HILDVEGI, Access Now ________________________________________________________________12

4. About STOA __________________________________________________________________________________13

4.1. Mission ___________________________________________________________________________________13

4.2. STOA Bureau ______________________________________________________________________________15

4.3. STOA Panel members _______________________________________________________________________16

4.4. STOA Administration ________________________________________________________________________18

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1. Programme

09:30 Welcome of the STOA Chair

Eva KAILI, MEP, Chair of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA)

09:45 Artificial intelligence and human rights

Professor Jason M. Schultz, NYU School of Law

10:00-10:45 Why do human rights matter in the context of AI?

(moderated by Eva KAILI)

Ekkehard ERNST, Chief Macroeconomist, Research Department, ILO

Joanna GOODEY, Head of Unit, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Dimitris PANOPOULOS, Suite 5-ChildRescue-Collective Awareness Platform for

Missing Children Investigation and Rescue

10:45-11:30 How AI impacts human rights?

(moderated by Marietje SCHAAKE, MEP)

Silkie CARLO, Chief Executive of Big Brother Watch

Lorena JAUME-PALASI, founder of the Ethical Tech Society

Lofred MADZOU, Project Lead, AI & Machine Learning, World Economic Forum

11:30-12:15 How to address AI-related human-rights harms?

(moderated by Michał BONI)

Professor Aimee VAN WYNSBERGHE, TU Delft-Member of the High-Level Expert

Group on AI

Fanny HIDVEGI, Access Now - Member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI

Can YEGINSU, Barrister, 4 New Square Chambers

12:15-12:30 Discussion and closing remarks

Michał BΟΝΙ, MEP STOA Panel member & member of LIBE Committee

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2. Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) brings to the fore new risks for human rights as diverse as non-discrimination, privacy, security, freedom of expression, freedom of association, right to work andaccess to public services. There is currently a discussion on whether and how the EU could developa human rights-based approach to AI, given that there are no established methodologies to trackhuman rights effects/harms, to identify who is being excluded from AI systems and to assess thepotential for discrimination in the use of machine learning.

Europe has the opportunity to shape the direction of AI at least from a socio-ethical perspective. Itslatest initiatives indicate the desire of its main institutional actors to react swiftly to these majorhuman rights challenges and lead the development of a human-centric AI. More specifically, theEuropean Commission’s Communication on Artificial Intelligence for Europe (April 2018) thatlaunched EU’s strategy on AI made special reference to the need to invest in people as a cornerstoneof a human-centric, inclusive approach to AI and reaffirmed its support for research into human-AIinteraction and cooperation. Recently, the Commission’s High Level Expert Group on AI proposedthe first draft AI ethics guidelines to the Commission, that addresses values that are protected bythe Charter of Fundamental Rights, such as privacy and personal data protection, human dignity,non-discrimination and consumer protection. The guidelines ask all stakeholders to evaluatepossible effects of AI on human beings and the common good and to ensure that AI is human-centric: AI should be developed, deployed and used with an “ethical purpose”, grounded in, andreflective of, fundamental rights, societal values and the ethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy of humans, and justice.

The recently adopted EP resolution on a Comprehensive European industrial policy on artificialintelligence and robotics makes explicit reference to the need for Europe to take the lead on theglobal stage by deploying only ethically embedded AI. It recommends that the Member Statesestablish AI ethics monitoring and oversight bodies and encourage companies developing AI to setup ethics boards and draw up ethical guidelines for their AI developers, and requests an ethics-by-design approach that will facilitate the embedding of values such as transparency and explainabilityin the development of AI. The resolution points out that the guiding ethical framework should bebased on the principles and values enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as onexisting ethical practices and codes.

Are these initiatives sufficient in terms of safeguarding a human rights lens in the governance of AI?Do we need legally-binding norms in this field rather than soft-law instruments or even thedevelopment of new human rights? Should the EU legislators consider the need for integrating arequirement for systematic human rights impact assessments or even for developing new legalmechanisms for redress/remedy for human rights violations resulting from AI?

The Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) and the Committee on Civil Liberties,Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament are organising a workshop entitled 'Isartificial intelligence a human rights issue?’ to discuss and evaluate the efficiency and adequacy ofthe aforementioned EU-wide initiatives from a human rights’ perspective. This will be anopportunity to learn more about the effects of AI upon the protection of human rights, and toparticipate in a debate with key experts in the subject. The workshop will open with a welcomeaddress from STOA Chair Eva KAILI (S&D, Greece), and a keynote speech by Professor Jason M.SCHULTZ, NYU School of Law, former Senior Advisor on Innovation and Intellectual Property to the

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White House and author (along with Aaron Perzanowski) of the famous book ‘The End of Ownership:Personal Property in the Digital Economy’.

This will be followed by three panel discussions, including presentations from a wide range ofexperts. The first Panel (moderated by Eva KAILI) includes presentations by Ekkehard ERNST, ChiefMacroeconomist, Research Department, ILO, Joanna GOODEY, Head of Research & Data Unit,European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and Dimitris PANOPOULOS, Co-founder of Suite5Data Intelligence Solutions. Panel 2 (moderated by Marietje SCHAAKE, MEP (ALDE, the Netherlands))features presentations by Silkie CARLO, Chief Executive of Big Brother Watch, Lorena JAUME-PALASI,founder of the Ethical Tech Society, and Lofred MADZOU, Project Lead, AI & Machine Learning,World Economic Forum. Panel 3 (moderated by Michał BONI, MEP (EPP, Poland)) comprises CanYEGINSU, Barrister, 4 New Square Chambers, Professor Aimee VAN WYNSBERGHE, TU Delft, Memberof the High-Level Expert Group on AI, and Fanny HIDVEGI, European Policy Manager at Access Now,Member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI. There will follow a Q&A session and a debate with allparticipants, and the event will conclude with closing remarks by Michał BONI.

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3. Speakers' biographies

3.1. Eva KAILI, MEP & STOA Chair

Eva Kaili is Member of the European Parliament (2014-2019), head of the Greek S&D Delegation(PASOK/Elia) in the European Parliament, STOA Chair and ITRE representative on the STOA Panel.

Eva Kaili was elected twice to the Greek national parliament (2007-2012) with the PanhellenicSocialist Movement (PASOK). She holds a bachelor degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering, andhas done postgraduate studies in European Politics. Currently, she is conducting her PhD inInternational Political Economy. In the European elections of 2014, Ms Kaili was elected, ranked-first,with the political scheme of 'Elia', and she is a Member of the European Socialists and Democrats(S&D).

In her capacity as STOA Chair she has been working intensively on promoting innovation as adriving force of the establishment of the European Digital Single Market. She has been particularlyactive in the fields of blockchain technology, m/eHealth, big data, fintech and cybersecurity and hasbeen the rapporteur of the ITRE opinion on the EFSI 2 file.

Eva Kaili chairs the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (DNAT), and is amember of the Committee Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). She is also a substitute member ofthe Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and of the Committee on Employmentand Social Affairs (EMPL), and a member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE).

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3.2. Michał BONI, MEP, STOA Panel member and member of LIBECommittee

Member of the European Parliament since 2014, Vice-Chair of Delegation to the EU-MoldovaParliamentary Association Committee, Member of Committee on Civil Liberties (AFCO), the Justiceand Home Affairs (LIBE), the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and teh Delegation to the EuronestParliamentary Assembly, Substitute Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy(ITRE)and Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee.

Michał Boni holds a PhD from the University of Warsaw, where he lectured in the Department ofPolish Culture for many years. Involved in the ‘Solidarity’ underground movement since 1980 and amember of the national authorities of ‘Solidarity’ since 1989, he became Chairman of the MazowszeRegion Management Board in 1990.

He served as Minister of Labour and Social Policy in 1991 and from 1992 until 1993 as Secretary ofState in the same ministry responsible for labour market policy. Between 1998 and 2001 he was theChief Advisor to the Minister of Labour and Social Policy. From 2008 he served as Minister - Head ofStrategic Advisors to the Prime Minister Donald Tusk and from 2011 until 2013 as Minister ofAdministration and Digitisation of Poland.

In 2016 Michał Boni received an award as MEP active in the category research and innovation.

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3.3. Marietje SCHAAKE, MEP

Marietje Schaake is a Dutch politician and has been serving as a Member of the European Parliamentsince 2009. She is a member of D66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)political group. She is Coordinator on the International Trade Committee, where she is the ALDEspokesperson on transatlantic and digital trade. Schaake also serves on the committee on ForeignAffairs (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. She is the Vice-Chair of the US Delegationand serves on the Iran Delegation and the Delegation for the Arab Peninsula. Furthermore, Schaakeis the founder of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe.

In 2017 she was Chief of the European Union Election Observation Mission in Kenya. Since 2014,Schaake is a ‘Young Global Leader’ with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and she was recentlyappointed as co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on Agile Governance. Schaake is a Memberof the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, the Global Commission on the Stability ofCyberspace and chair of the CEPS Taskforce on Software Vulnerability Disclosure in Europe.Furthermore, she is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to theCenter for Humane Technology.

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3.4. Professor Jason M. SCHULTZ, NYU School of Law

Jason M. SCHULTZ is a Professor of Clinical Law, Director ofNYU's Technology Law & Policy Clinic, Co-Director of theEngelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and Area Lead inLaw & Policy for the AI Now Institute.

His clinical projects, research and writing primarily focus onpractical frameworks and policy options to help traditional areasof law such as intellectual property, privacy, consumerprotection and civil rights adapt in light of new technologiesand the challenges they pose. His most recent work focuses onthe social and legal implications of machine learning, artificialintelligence and the Internet of Things.

During the 2016-2017 academic year, Professor Schultz was onleave to work at the White House Office of Science and

Technology Policy, where he served as Senior Advisor on Innovation and Intellectual Property to U.S.Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith.

3.5. Ekkehard ERNST, International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Ekkehard Ernst leads global research on the Future of Work andother far-reaching challenges at the International LabourOrganization. Together with his team, he develops scenarios onhow artificial intelligence, an ageing society, climate change orpopulism will impact jobs and inequality. He regularly speaks atinternational venues such as the World Government Summit orthe ITU AI for good conference and publishes blogs, newspaperarticle and policy reports alongside academic studies.

His most recent work discusses the risks and opportunities of awide-spread adoption of artificial intelligence, in particular fordeveloping countries. Ekkehard has studied in Mannheim, Saarbrücken, Paris and Santa Fe. He holdsseveral academic fellowships and advises external partners on labour market issues, such as TheConference Board, the JustJobs Network, the UK Productivity Insights Network and ForesightAlliances.

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3.6. Joanna GOODEY, European Union Agency for FundamentalRights

Dr Joanna Goodey is Head of the Research and Data Unit at theEuropean Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). She isresponsible for all strands of the Agency’s research work –ranging from artificial intelligence and data protection,through to victims of crime and the experiences of specificsocial groups with respect to discrimination in different areas ofeveryday life. The Agency’s work encompasses socio-legal deskresearch and fieldwork, legal opinions, and large-scalequantitative surveys, which variously provide data and analyseson the situation of fundamental rights in the EU.

With respect to the Agency’s work on AI, Joanna is currently amember of the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. Shepreviously held full-time lectureships in criminology and criminal justice at British universities, andwas a research fellow at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. She has been a regular study fellow atthe Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. She is the author ofthe academic textbook ‘Victims and Victimology: Research, Policy and Practice’ (2005), and haspublished numerous academic journal articles and book chapters.

3.7. Dimitris PANOPOULOS, Suite 5

Dr Dimitris Panopoulos, born in Athens in 1977, holds anEngineering Diploma, an MSc in Techno-Economic Systemsand a PhD Degree in Information Technology systems. He hasmore than 15 years of experience in the design, developmentand management of IT systems, as well as great consulting andresearch experience through his participation in numerouspublic and privately funded projects. Since 2001 he hasparticipated as Project Manager, Technical Manager orResearcher in more than 50 Research and Innovation projectsin the framework of EU & National Funding Programmes (FP6,FP7, Horizon2020 etc). His expertise covers the fields ofInformation Technologies, Enterprise Management Systems,Production Management, Energy Management Systems, e-business and e-government. Moreover,Dr Panopoulos has significant academic/teaching experience, delivering since 2007 postgraduatecourses in the fields of operations management, e-transactions and strategic management games.

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3.8. Lofred MADZOU, World Economic Forum (WEF)

Lofred Madzou is the Project Lead for AI and Machine Learningat the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The "Centre"is the leading hub for global, multistakeholder cooperation tostudy emerging technologies, address the resultingtransformations and test protocols and policies that couldharness their benefits whilst minimising their potentialdisruptive impacts.

More specifically, he is responsible for coordinating public-private partnerships on various policy projects: from protocolsfor the responsible and effective procurement of AI bygovernments to standards to protect children who interact

with AI-powered solutions.

Before joining the World Economic Forum, he was a Policy Officer at the French Digital Councilwhere we mostly worked on online platforms regulation and AI policy. Most notably, he has co-written chapter 5 of the Villani report - the French AI National Strategy - entitled ‘What Ethics for AI?’.

3.9. Silkie CARLO, Big Brother Watch

Silkie Carlo is the Director of the UK civil libertiescampaign organisation Big Brother Watch. She waspreviously the Senior Advocacy Officer at Libertywhere she led a programme on Technology andHuman Rights and launched a legal challenge to theInvestigatory Powers Act. She previously worked forEdward Snowden’s official defence fund andwhistleblowers at risk.

She is a passionate campaigner for the protection ofliberties, particularly in the context of new and emerging technologies. She has worked to upholdrights in the fields of state surveillance, policing technologies, big data, artificial intelligence and freeexpression online. Silkie is also an information security trainer and co-author of Information Securityfor Journalists.

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3.10. Lorena Jaume-Palasi, Ethical Tech Society

Lorena Jaume-Palasí is the founder of The Ethical TechSociety, a non-profit organization to analyse and evaluateprocesses of automation and digitisation regarding theirsocial relevance. Lorena researches the ethics ofdigitisation and automation. In this context, she also dealswith questions of legal philosophy and the human uptakeof technology. In 2017 she was appointed by the SpanishGovernment to the High-Level Expert Committee onArtificial Intelligence and Big Data. She is one of the 100experts of the Cotec Foundation for Innovation for herwork on automation and ethics. She holds a Bucerius

fellowship of the Zeit Stiftung and is founder of the Dynamic Coalition on Publicness of the UnitedNations Internet Governance Forum, a permanent working group on the governance of the publicspace in the digital era. Lorena is regularly consulted by international institutions, governments andcorporations and has testified before several governmental committees in diverse countries. Lorenahas co-authored several books on Internet Governance, and lectures and writes regularly on dataprotection, privacy, discrimination and the public sphere. In 2018 she was awarded the TheodorHeuss Medal for "her contribution to a differentiated view of algorithms and their mechanisms ofaction" as one of the founders of the initiative AlgorithmWatch.

3.11. Can YEGINSU, 4 New Square Chambers

Can Yeginsu is a barrister practising from 4 New SquareChambers in London.

Mr Yeginsu is consistently ranked by the legal directories as aleading barrister in four practice areas: (i) commercial litigation;(ii) international arbitration; (iii) administrative and public law;and (iv) civil liberties and human rights.

Mr Yeginsu has a particularly strong reputation as counsel infreedom of expression cases both in the United Kingdom(appearing as counsel in the UK Supreme Court in Rhodes vOPO, and lead counsel for interveners in Miranda v Secretary ofState of the Home Department both before the English High Court and the Court of Appeal) andinternationally (acting as co-counsel in landmark free speech cases before the Supreme Court of theGambia, the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, the Inter-AmericanCourt of Human Rights, and in numerous applications before the European Court of Human Rights).

Mr Yeginsu is Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where he co-teaches a seminar on freedomof expression. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law where he teaches publicinternational law. He is the co-author of ‘The Protections for Religious Rights: Law and Practice’(Oxford) and Partner Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University ofCambridge.

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3.12. Professor Aimee VAN WYNSBERGHE, TU Delft

Aimee van Wynsberghe (PhD, University of Twente) is AssistantProfessor in Ethics and Technology and TU Delft. She is co-founderand co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics andon the board of the Institute for Accountability and InternetDemocracy. Aimee is a 2018 L’Oreal UNESCO ‘For Women inScience‘ laureate. She has been named one of the Netherlands’top 400 influential women under 38 by VIVA and was named oneof the 25 ‘women in robotics you need to know about’. She isauthor of the book ‘Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design, andImplementation’ and has been awarded an NWO personalresearch grant to study how we can responsibly design servicerobots. She has written over 14 peer-reviewed journal articles andhas been cited over 400 times.

Aimee frequently appears in the media and gives talks for majorcompanies and events. She has been interviewed by BBC, Quartz,

Financial Times and other international news media on the topic of ethics and robots. She hasspoken at major international events including, the Web Summit (2017, 2018), the EuropeanInvestment Bank Global Investment Forum (2017), AI for Good’s Global Summit (2018), and theEconomist’s Innovation Summit (2018). Her talks cover topics like: robot ethics, the ethics of AI, therole of ethics in designing technologies etc.

3.13. Fanny HILDVEGI, Access Now

Fanny Hidvegi (@infofannny) is Access Now’s European PolicyManager based in Brussels. She develops Access Now's Europeanpolicy strategy and manages the EU office. Fanny got appointed to theEuropean Commission's High_Level Expert Group on ArtificialIntelligence and she is on the board of the Hungarian Civil LibertiesUnion (HCLU).

Previously, Fanny was International Privacy Fellow at the ElectronicPrivacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. For three years Fannyled the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Program of theHCLU, where she engaged in strategic litigation and gainedexperience on how to operate as an advocate in a restrictiveenvironment.

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4. About STOA

4.1. Mission

The Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) forms an integral part of the structure ofthe European Parliament. Launched in 1987, STOA is tasked with identifying and independentlyassessing the impact of new and emerging science and technologies.

The goal of its work is to assist, with independent information, the Members of the EuropeanParliament (MEPs) in developing options for long-term, strategic policy-making.

The STOA Panel

The STOA Panel consists of 25 MEPs nominated from the nine permanent parliamentary committees:AGRI (Agriculture & Rural Development), CULT (Culture & Education), EMPL (Employment & SocialAffairs), ENVI (Environment, Public Health & Food Safety), IMCO (Internal Market & ConsumerProtection), ITRE (Industry, Research & Energy), JURI (Legal Affairs), LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice andHome Affairs) and TRAN (Transport & Tourism).

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO MEP is the European Parliament Vice-President responsible for STOAfor the second half of the 8th legislature. The STOA Chair for the second half of the 8th legislature isEva KAILI with Paul RÜBIG and Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ elected as 1st and 2nd Vice-Chairs respectively.

The STOA approach

STOA fulfils its mission primarily by carrying out science-based projects. Whilst undertaking theseprojects, STOA assesses the widest possible range of options to support evidence-based policydecisions. A typical project investigates the impacts of both existing and emerging technologyoptions and presents these in the form of studies and options briefs. These are publicly available fordownload via the STOA website: www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/.

Some of STOA's projects explore the long-term impacts of future techno-scientific trends, with theaim to support MEPs in anticipating the consequences of developments in science. Alongside itsproduction of 'hard information', STOA communicates its findings to the European Parliament byorganising public events throughout the year. STOA also runs the MEP-Scientist Pairing Schemeaimed at promoting mutual understanding and facilitating the establishment of lasting linksbetween the scientific and policy-making communities.

Focus areas

STOA activities and products are varied and are designed to cover as wide a range of scientific andtechnological topics as possible, such as nano-safety, e-Democracy, bio-engineering, assistivetechnologies for people with disabilities, waste management, cybersecurity, smart energy grids,responsible research & innovation, sustainable agriculture and health.

They are grouped in five broad focus areas: eco-efficient transport and modern energy solutions;sustainable management of natural resources; potential and challenges of the Internet; health andlife sciences; science policy, communication and global networking.

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ESMH

The European Science-Media Hub (ESMH), operating under the political responsibility of the STOAPanel, is a new platform to promote networking, training and knowledge sharing between theEuropean Parliament, the scientific community and the media. The ESMH creates a network amongpolicy-makers, scientists and media involving science, academia, educational and research entities,professional associations of journalists and scientists.

For journalists and media representatives, the ESMH organises training and workshops on currenttechnological developments, both as subjects of their reporting and as means of facilitating theirwork. Via media monitoring and media intelligence tools, the ESMH follows the most popular topicsin the field of science and technology on different platforms including magazines, newspapers andsocial media.

The ESMH will make information available to journalists, other media and citizens about newscientific developments, as well as about scientific topics that attract media attention and promoteinformation based on evidence.

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4.2. STOA Bureau

Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO(EPP, ES)

EP Vice-President responsible for STOA

Eva KAILI (S&D, EL)Chair of STOA

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy(ITRE)

Paul RÜBIG (EPP, AT)First Vice-Chair of STOA

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy(ITRE)

Evžen TOŠENOVSKÝ (ECR, CZ)Second Vice-Chair of STOA

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy(ITRE)

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4.3. STOA Panel members

Tiziana BEGHIN(EFDD, IT)

EMPL Committee

Michał BONI(EPP, PL)

LIBE Committee

Renata BRIANO(S&D, IT)

ENVI Committee

Carlos COELHO(PPE, PT)

IMCO Committee

Mady DELVAUX(S&D, LU)

JURI Committee

Christian EHLER(EPP, DE)

ITRE Committee

Maria Teresa GIMÉNEZBARBAT

(ADLE, ES)

CULT Committee

Andrzej GRZYB(EPP, PL)

ENVI Committee

DanutaJAZŁOWIECKA(EPP, PL)

EMPL Committee

Jan KELLER(S&D, CZ)

EMPL Committee

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BogusławLIBERADZKI

(S&D, PL)

TRAN Committee

Anthea McINTYRE(ECR, UK)

AGRI Committee

Momchil NEKOV(S&D, BG)

AGRI Committee

Marijana PETIR(EPP, HR)

AGRI Committee

Michèle RIVASI(Greens/EFA, FR)

ITRE Committee

Virginie ROZIERE(S&D, FR)

IMCO Committee

Claudia SCHMIDT(EPP, AT)

TRAN Committee

Kay SWINBURNE(ECR, UK)

ENVI Committee

NeoklisSYLIKIOTIS

(GUE/NGL, CY)

ITRE Committee

AnneleenVAN BOSSUYT

(ECR, BE)

IMCO Committee

Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI(ECR, PL)

TRAN Committee

Parliamentary Committees:AGRI: Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentCULT: Culture and EducationEMPL: Employment and Social AffairsENVI: Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyIMCO: Internal Market and Consumer ProtectionITRE: Industry, Research and EnergyJURI: Legal Affairs

TRAN: Transport and Tourism

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4.4. STOA Administration

Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (DG EPRS)European ParliamentRue Wiertz 60B-1047 BrusselsE-mail: [email protected]

Director-GeneralAnthony TEASDALE

DirectorWolfgang HILLER

Head of Unit - Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA)Theo KARAPIPERIS

STOA SecretariatZsolt G. PATAKI, Head of ServiceMihalis KRITIKOSNera KULJANIĆGianluca QUAGLIO

Scientific Foresight ServiceLieve VAN WOENSEL, Head of ServicePhilip BOUCHERChristian KURRER

European Science-Media Hub (ESMH)Svetla TANOVA, CoordinatorVitalba CRIVELLOEszter FAYSilvia POLIDORI

AssistantsEmilia BANDEIRA MORAISSerge EVRARDRachel MANIRAMBONAVanda NOBRE DA SILVADamir PLEŠE

TraineeRichelle BOONE

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