Germany's Christian Ehler MEP. Photo credits: Xavier Lejeune / European Union In the new Parliament, the old fights over research funding continue, with the newly appointed members of the Industry, Research and Energy committee ITRE, hitting back against the EU Council's proposed … | Continue reading
Germany's Christian Ehler MEP. Photo credits: Xavier Lejeune / European Union In the new Parliament, the old fights over research funding continue, with the newly appointed members of the Industry, Research and Energy committee ITRE, hitting back against the EU Council's proposed … | Continue reading
National Science Foundation (NSF) director Sethuraman Panchanathan. Photo credits: NSF In its continuing push to tighten research security, the US government awarded $67 million to two consortia led by the University of Washington and Texas A&M University to set up a national org … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union The European Parliament committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) officially confirmed EPP Polish MEP Borys Budka as its new chair this morning. Rumors about his nomination have been swirling since the beginning of July. … | Continue reading
Job title RIKEN ECL Team Leader (roughly equivalent to early career professor) RIKEN ECL Unit Leader (roughly equivalent to associate professor/assistant professor) Qualifications Applicants should be women researchers who have appropriate knowledge, experience, and abilities to … | Continue reading
RIKEN started RIKEN Early Career Leaders (ECL) Program in FY 2023 which declares our goal to train the next generation of talented researchers and engineers. The RIKEN ECL program provides two types of positions, Team Leader and Unit Leader, for highly talented junior researchers … | Continue reading
The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) has welcomed the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) as its first transatlantic member following the conclusion of negotiations for Canada’s association to Pillar II of Horizon Europe. This development will allow for enhanced … | Continue reading
Laboratory of the French research institute CEA-Leti, which will host one of the pilot lines. Photo credits: Christian Morel / CEA The EU’s Chips Joint Undertaking will open a €180 million call for a fifth semiconductor pilot line for advanced photonic integrated circuits on Thur … | Continue reading
Location of private fusion companies with $200M+ public investment. Photo credits: Fusion Industry Association (FIA) annual report 2024 Investment in fusion companies is fast increasing, growing from $6.2 billion to $7.1 billion since last year, according to latest report by the … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Varavin88 / BigStock Companies in the US are the biggest commercial winners from the European Research Council (ERC), patenting far more products based on the science it funds than European companies or universities, according to a new study. The findings, which th … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock In 2021, the EU adopted ‘Mission Starfish 2030: Restore our Ocean and Waters’ as one of the five Horizon Europe Missions. The Starfish Mission to restore and protect marine and freshwater ecosystems through targeted actions and research, follows o … | Continue reading
Photo credits: vitanovski / BigStock The Horizon Europe Cancer Mission got off the ground in 2021 with a promise to save and improve three million lives by 2030. As it works towards that goal, one if the main objectives is to get all the stakeholders talking to each other to acce … | Continue reading
The Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. Photo: Polymagou / Creative Commons In the race to unlock the promise of quantum computing and spark a revolution in computer science, the French National Research Council (CNRS) has taken the lead in Europe when it comes … | Continue reading
Berlaymont Building of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Kyle Wagaman / Flickr The European Commission has released the Indicative Audit Programme (IAP) for its grants, answering some of the questions surrounding the auditing of Horizon Europe projects. T … | Continue reading
Science|Business is again the media partner of Eindhoven University of Technology’s Opening of the Academic Year (OAY). This year’s OAY once again has an exceptional line-up of speakers and will be live-streamed here. The world faces immense climate and energy challenges, yet "Gr … | Continue reading
Science|Business is again the media partner of Eindhoven University of Technology’s Opening of the Academic Year (OAY). This year’s OAY once again has an exceptional line-up of speakers and will be live-streamed here. The world faces immense climate and energy challenges, yet "Gr … | Continue reading
The University of Tartu and the Ministry of Social Affairs have signed a cooperation agreement to establish the Estonian Cancer Centre within the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu to accelerate cancer prevention and treatment in Estonia through international cooperat … | Continue reading
MISU’s researcher Thorsten Mauritsen has been awarded funds from the Swedish National Space Agency to develop the satellite project Earth Climate Observatory (ECO) which is competing to be part of the European Space Agency ESA’s program Earth Explorer. The project is one of four … | Continue reading
A new report shows that research projects at The University of Texas at Arlington contributed one quarter of a billion dollars—$226.4 million, to be exact—to the national economy through 797 vendor contracts and subcontracts between 2018 and 2022. Of those contracts, 111 were fro … | Continue reading
The Israel Innovation Authority is pleased to announce the appointment of Yael Mazuz Harpaz as VP of Policy. Yael brings and extensive background and experience from both the business and government sectors in managing and developing policy and strategy in various fields, includi … | Continue reading
Professor of Game and Media Technology, Remco Veltkamp, will join the Utrecht AI Labs as scientific director starting August 1. He will focus on further developing the collaboration between the university and public and private organisations, governments, and other research insti … | Continue reading
Commission president Ursula von der Leyen giving her speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg ahead of her re-election. Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union The clean tech industry is breathing a sigh of relief after Ursula von der Leyen was elected for a … | Continue reading
Commission president Ursula von der Leyen giving her speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg ahead of her re-election. Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union Ursula von der Leyen promised to put research and innovation “at the centre of our economy” as she … | Continue reading
Singapore's skyline. Photo credits: Christopher Chan / Flickr A leading MEP and human rights organisations want the European Commission to release an internal assessment that gives Singapore a clean enough bill of health on democracy and human rights to join the Horizon Europe re … | Continue reading
Singapore's skyline. Photo credits: Christopher Chan / Flickr A leading MEP and human rights organisations want the European Commission to explain how it gave Singapore a clean enough bill of health on democracy and human rights to join the Horizon Europe research and innovation … | Continue reading
Nikos Kastrinos, independent science and technology policy analyst, and a former European Commission official involved in Framework Programme planning and implementation. 40 years of Framework Programmes in 70 years of EU research: a brief history, by Nikos Kastrinos Editor’s not … | Continue reading
Korean minister for science and ICT Jong Ho Lee (left) and EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton attending the first Ministerial EU-Korea Digital Partnership Council Meeting on June, 30, in Seoul. Photo credits: Lee Jae-Won / European Union The EU and South have sele … | Continue reading
Twenty six innovative projects to enhance UK and Swiss collaborations and capabilities in the emerging fields of technology have been announced. With £7.8 million funding from Innovate UK and CHF 9.1 million from Innosuisse, the Swiss innovation agency, the collaborative projects … | Continue reading
As COVID-19 spread globally in 2020, many countries swiftly closed their borders to prevent the disease from entering. However, there was little scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of such measures. While post-COVID research has extensively focused on the efficacy of … | Continue reading
The National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) will invest PLN 445 million (approximately EUR 106 million) in a Polish programme for supporting the implementation of projects ensuring accessibility for people with special needs in various aspects of everyday life by laun … | Continue reading
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to announce their intention to coordinate efforts, with the goal of enabling responsible data sharing across geographies, institutions, and … | Continue reading
Universities of Applied Sciences Netherlands – UASNL thanks the High-Level Group for the opportunity to provide input and add the perspective of applied research and regional impact to the consultation. UASNL represents 20 Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS). In UAS, kno … | Continue reading
Photo credits: weyo / BigStock The latest European Innovation Scoreboard shows not much has changed when it comes to which countries lead and which lag, but Cyprus stands out, having leapfrogged its way through the rankings to tenth place, up from 15 in 2017 and is a ‘strong inno … | Continue reading
Polish national flag. Photo credits: Thomas / Flickr A new unit of the pan-European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) has opened its doors in Warsaw, with the aim of improving the energy efficiency of AI and machine learning systems. ELLIS Unit Warsaw is bas … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Mirror Mission Cities Hub Romania In December last year, the Romanian government launched Mirror Mission 100 (M100), a national hub coordinated at inter-ministerial level to help ten cities in less-developed regions speed up their green transition. The M100 initiat … | Continue reading
MEP Borys Budka. Photo credits: Republic of Poland Polish MEP Borys Budka is to be nominated next chair of the European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) committee, taking over the reins from Romanian MEP Cristian Bușoi, as negotiations on the shape of FP10 get un … | Continue reading
Photo credits: CalypsoArt / BigStock The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is introducing a new pilot rule to its Vidi grants this autumn: if two proposals get a similar score, preference will be given to women candidates. The funder, which puts €1 billion into research, hopes the mea … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The last EU Parliament reached a notable landmark by adopting the Artificial Intelligence Act, with the aim of harmonising rules on AI systems across 27 member states. The goal is to protect fundamental rights and EU values from the risks of the t … | Continue reading
European Innovation Scoreboard 2024 interactive map. Photo credits: European Union A few things have remained unchanged in Europe between 2017 and now: Hungary’s prime minister, France’s president, and the innovation standing of 33 of the 39 countries in the European Innovation S … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Sashkin / BigStock The European Commission is working up multiple generative artificial intelligence calls in next year’s Horizon Europe work programme as part of a €500 million push to find industrial real-world uses for the technology popularised by ChatGPT. The … | Continue reading
Logo of German Research Foundation. Photo credits: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Last week Science|Business sat down with Jörg Schneider, head of international cooperation at the German Research Foundation (DFG) to talk about why Germany’s biggest public research funding agency … | Continue reading
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Atlas building, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Photo credits: Eindhoven University of Technology Appointing entrepreneurs in residence is a common strategy used by universities in the US and UK to bring in business experience, with would-be aca … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) have announced plans to cooperate to support start-ups, SMEs and midcaps in the defence and security sectors, with the aim of crowding in private capital. EIF, part of the European … | Continue reading
Despite numerous initiatives addressing maritime issues and the Blue Economy, the field remains fragmented by national and disciplinary boundaries, including division among researchers focusing on different sectors of the Blue Economy. Therefore, it is essential to create and str … | Continue reading
A new spinout will use AI and innovative experimental methods to improve the manufacturing of products such as drugs and fertilisers. Pandemic-beating drugs could enter production more quickly and agrichemicals such as fertilisers could be produced with fewer toxic raw materials … | Continue reading
Creating an open ecosystem that brings together representatives from academia, research centres, supercomputing centres and companies that are developing, training and using large-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, as well as building and operating large-scale computing s … | Continue reading
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) will receive 50 million euros to develop the programmes to attract and retain talent that are part of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy, approved by the Spanish government last May, in which on … | Continue reading
On Thursday, 11 July, The KERC organized a Horizon Europe webinar for the Korean Scientists & Engineers Associations in Europe. In the first session, Jaewuk JUNG, Science Counsellor at the Korean embassy to the EU presented Korean governments latest international cooperation poli … | Continue reading