Science & society

If we were today to climb into the time machine that H.G. Wells imagined, we could, for example, travel back to the 19^th century to witness the dawn of modern science. In those days, the boundaries between science and society were not as clean-cut as they are now, and scientific research was greatly influenced by public interests and needs.

More than 30 participants from around Europe gathered in Barcelona, Spain, for the first meeting of a new European project which will involve the active participation of society in water adaptation to global change.