Greenwashing has been reined in. On 27 September 2026, new EU consumer protection requirements on environmental claims came into force, primarily to reduce greenwashing and protect consumers from misleading environmental claims.
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AI agents deployed without sufficient thought can create serious cybersecurity risks and make accountability even more complicated.
An AI agent can be a company’s most diligent employee. The trouble starts when it is given more permissions than judgement.
Mathematics is more than formulas and calculations. It trains us to solve problems, try different approaches and persevere when we meet an obstacle. We need these skills every day — at school, at work and in life, writes Cathy-Liis Põlluveer, President of the Estonian Association of Engineers.
The maritime sector needs new employees and leaders, and attracting more women is increasingly discussed. Elpi Petraki, President of WISTA International, the global network of women professionals in maritime, shipping, trade and logistics, believes real change is measured by the roles women attain and their opportunities to influence their organisations. If women remain mainly in support roles, much of their potential goes unused.
Inseneride tähtsus ja ühiskondlik roll tõuseb avalikkuses esile vaid aeg-ajalt – siis, kui räägitakse tööturu seisukorrast või tudengite vastuvõtust. Ent inseneeria on piisavalt oluline teema, et püsida pidevalt ühiskondlike arutelude fookuses. Kas noored üldse teavad, kes on insener ja miks ta on tähtis?*
Turkey’s exclusion from the European Union’s SAFE (Security Action for Europe) defence funding programme – due to the absence of a formal security agreement with Brussels – has prompted its leading defence companies to adopt a pragmatic “local bridge” strategy.
Whoever controls the world’s maritime transport flows controls the world. This phrase has, over the centuries, guided everyone from Christopher Columbus and the East India Companies of the seventeenth–nineteenth centuries to US President Donald Trump.
Electrical engineering expert and beekeeper Aleksander Kilk writes that bees play a far greater role than merely producing honey: they preserve biodiversity, support food security and offer people an example of intelligent cooperation. In his view, we ourselves could learn a good deal from a bee colony: how to act collectively, purposefully and in harmony with nature.
Opposing science and faith has become customary in the West – but what if the two are, in fact, inseparable?