Science on the go: 10 EU-funded podcasts from AI to climate change

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

"Bits of Ethics" is a podcast produced as part of AIOLIA , a project which focuses on turning high-level EU AI Act ethical principles into practical tools. The podcast explores the gap between AI ethics theory and real-world practice, featuring episodes on topics like artificial love and AI avatars .

CITIZEN SCIENCE

The ScienceUs Podcast connects you with the researchers and practitioners who are shaping the future of climate change adaptation. In the first four episodes, discover projects such as Thermo-staat, giving residents simple sensors to measure rising indoor temperatures; and EcoVoce, providing residents with a mobile app and digital mapping tools to monitor environmental issues.

CLIMATE CHANGE

The ScienceUs Podcast connects you with the researchers and practitioners who are shaping the future of climate change adaptation. Episode 1 features Thermo-staat, a Dutch project giving residents simple sensors to measure rising indoor temperatures. Episode 2 looks into EcoVoce, a Romanian project providing residents with a mobile app and digital mapping tools to monitor environmental issues.

CLIMATE DISINFORMATION

The Just Europe podcast series takes a closer look at the challenges we face on the path to a fair and inclusive Europe. Episode 15 is on climate disinformation and features researcher Max Falkenberg of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions -funded POLARCLIMATE project.

DEMOCRACY AND EU ENLARGEMENT

The REUNIR project is analysing the instability of the EU's eastern neighbourhood by evaluating threats to the resilience of candidate countries. In their podcast series , find episodes dedicated to the interference of external actors such as Russia.

FOOD FRAUD

The EFF-CoP project aims to fight food fraud - the deliberate act of altering, substituting, mislabelling or counterfeiting food, ingredients, or packaging for economic gain. Listen to their "Authentic Appetites" podcast series, where each episode treats a different facet of their mission to enhance transparency in our food supply chains.

FRESHWATER RESTORATION

Bringing Europe's Freshwaters Back to Life is the title - and the theme - of the MERLIN project's podcast. It followed the project's journey into freshwater restoration across Europe, offering a behind the scenes look at some of the continent's ambitious projects carried out through cutting-edge aquatic science and conservation.

LITERATURE AND GENDER

The EUTERPE project studies how women's writing across Europe moves between languages, borders and cultures, to create open resources and better understand what it means to be European today. Listen to their podcast series featuring interviews with doctoral researchers, conversations with writers, poetry readings and more.

MIGRATION

The Link4Skills project is investigating how cross-border migration can help address skill shortages across the world. Throughout 2026, project members will contribute to several episodes of the award-winning podcast Borders & Belonging to share insights into their research.

SCANNING TECHNOLOGIES

Each monthly episode of the CORDIScovery podcasttouches on an EU-funded project, idea, or debate in science. The latest episode focuses on the world of new scanning technologies, which are identifying illegal items - from small packages to large shipping containers - more effectively than ever.