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Following the 2025 ECAT Workshop, this publication gathers the abstracts that were accepted through the event's call for contributions and insights from the day's discussions.

The Commission has launched a call for proposals for a project to scale, facilitate and accelerate research and analysis on the information environment and information integrity.

A new Joint Research Centre report, “Banning Mobile Phones in Schools: A Comprehensive Analysis of Media Coverage Across Countries,” provides a systematic, comparative examination of how this debate is framed in the media.

Group of European experts met with ECAT and DG Connect in November to share progress on their projects related to systemic risks.

The 2025 ECAT Research Workshop brought together researchers from across Europe to explore how the online world is experienced by children and young people, as well as insights directly from local students.

JRC Researchers from the Algorithmic Transparency Unit returned from the world’s leading conference on recommender systems with one of the most prestigious recognitions in the field.

The ECAT team has been taking part in a range of conferences to talk about DSA data access and discuss research related to algorithmic transparency and fairness.

Under article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), vetted researchers will be able to request data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines (VLOSEs) to conduct research on systemic risks in the EU. 

The JRC in Seville welcomed over 40 global experts for the Stanford AI Auditing Conference, co-organised by the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, ECAT, and the International Association of Algorithmic Auditors.