Europe is facing a pressing need to fill its talent gap in emerging technologies. Turning bright minds into innovators and entrepreneurs requires more than technology expertise. The necessary skill set lies in real-life experiences, exchanging with peers and technology experts, a … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Maksim Labkouski / BigStock The EU’s ambition of levelling up innovation in every region of Europe is misguided, according to a senior European Commission advisory group. Instead of working to close the innovation gap everywhere, policy should focus on supporting t … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) / European Union The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is about to start assembling a tenth knowledge and innovation community (KIC) that will focus on water, marine and maritime sectors and … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union EU-NATO defence research collaboration is intensifying amid rising geopolitical tensions, according to the ninth report detailing progress from June 2023 – May 2024. The report shows the EU and NATO are intensifying cooperation across several dimensi … | Continue reading
Gilles Meijer, CEO of ScoutingScience, who spoke at the European Commission’s webinar on AI and other digital techs on June 27, 2024. Photo credits: ScoutingScience's website Artificial intelligence (AI) tools aren’t here to wreak havoc on how researchers work. They’re can make t … | Continue reading
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April, 25, 2022. Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union The EU is planning several joint calls with India in next year’s work programme for Horizon Europe, as Brussels tries … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock In December 2019 the EU launched the European Green Deal, with the ambition of being the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. That involves significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and developing and deploying renewable energy sources. … | Continue reading
Photo credits: a_Jarm / BigStock Research collaboration is growing apace and shows no signs of stopping. According to the latest research and innovation data from the European Commission, the number of co-patents, joint publications and multinational EU projects, are all on the r … | Continue reading
The SciLifeLab board has appointed Professor Jan Ellenberg as the new Director. Alongside this role, Professor Ellenberg will also be appointed as a Professor at Karolinska Institutet and Affiliated Professor at KTH and Stockholm University. He succeeds Professor Olli Kallioniemi … | Continue reading
Swedish telecom company Tele2 signed a new €140 million loan agreement with EIB. Loan will help roll out high-speed mobile networks in Sweden. Goal is to reach 99.9% of the Swedish population with 5G coverage. The European Invest Bank (EIB) is providing Tele2 with a €140 million … | Continue reading
The global connectivity landscape is undergoing significant transformations and becoming increasingly intricate [see the article “Five Hundred and Fifty Cables Under The Seas”, which also appeared on CONNECT46]. We spoke with GN5-IC1 coordinator Veronika Di Luna (GÉANT) to find o … | Continue reading
The ATTRACT Pre-Final Conference, held at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, was a crucial event for ATTRACT phase 2. It brought together a large community of researchers and innovators to explore technological advancements with the potential … | Continue reading
Imperial College London and the Royal Academy of Engineering have announced a new Science and Technology Venture Capital (VC) Fellowship designed to enhance investor capability in identifying and deploying capital into high-potential, scalable, life science and deep tech ventures … | Continue reading
EU research and innovation commissioner Iliana Ivanova. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union The European Commission has warned universities and researchers that terminating Horizon Europe projects with Israeli counterparts on the basis of their nationality alone would b … | Continue reading
Photo credits: paulgrecaud / BigStock The EU needs a strong science, research and innovation base more than ever, as it lags behind competitors in an uncertain geopolitical environment, according to this year’s 530-page stock-taking report on the Science, Research and Innovation … | Continue reading
Loan of €115 million to deepen navigation channel in Port of Esbjerg on North Sea. Expanded port capacity to accommodate larger vessels, including for NATO operations. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending €115 million to expand the Danish Port of Esbjerg in a way that wi … | Continue reading
Everyone talks about Artificial Intelligence but its current adoption rates are low in the Swiss tech industry, especially in manufacturing-related applications. This is one conclusion of a survey conducted by ETH Zurich in collaboration with Swissmem and Next Industries. Profess … | Continue reading
Imperial and the University of Ghana have announced a new partnership to expand collaborations in research and education. The five-year partnership will see the two universities explore cooperation in areas such as digital diagnostics, innovation and entrepreneurship, public heal … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union Member states have laid out their broad plans for the next framework research programme, FP10, calling for EU governments to be more involved in strategic priority setting, and for the creation of ‘Collaborative Research Actions’ to support basic res … | Continue reading
European Council meeting, Brussels, 9 March 2017. Photo credits: European Council / European Union Member states have laid out their broad plans for the next framework research programme, FP10, calling for EU governments to be more involved in strategic priority setting, and for … | Continue reading
Jordan Bardella, leader of the Rassemblement National’s election campaign. Photo credits: Philippe Buissin / European Union Leading voices in academia and the start-up community are warning of the risk posed to international collaboration, researcher mobility and evidence-based p … | Continue reading
Photo credits: designer491 / BigStock As Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border in February 2022, waiting for a signal to invade from the Kremlin, scientific relations between Russia and Europe were looking healthy. Over the past two decades, Brussels had given Russia more … | Continue reading
On the 21st of June, the Nanolab of the University of Twente opened a new state-of-the-art research facility. The opening represents a significant advancement in the university’s capabilities to pioneer cutting-edge research in photoelectron characterization and advanced material … | Continue reading
Photo credits: IuriiMotov / BigStock Bosch is the most active applicant for AI patents in Europe by some margin, according to European Patent Office data. The company has filed more than 102 applications in the fields of deep learning, fuzzy logic and machine learning in the past … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Stefano Cannas / Flickr The introduction of personnel unit costing is the latest move to chip away at the mountain of bureaucracy in Horizon Europe. The new method, which came into effect in May, allows each beneficiary to calculate an internal daily rate that it a … | Continue reading
Photo credits: DevinQuotes / BigStock The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has set up a new health accelerator programme built around challenges set by established companies. A pilot of the programme is currently open to applications from start-ups and resear … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Last week, Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Digital Europe director general told the association’s annual summit in Brussels that the EU is behind in seven of eight critical technologies, citing biotech as one of the areas where it lags. That means there is … | Continue reading
Hybrid quantum computer at LRZ. Photo credits: IQM The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Germany has integrated a quantum computer into its supercomputer, in what is believed to be a world first, and which will allow researchers and industry to test the potential of quantum … | Continue reading
Iordanis Arzimanoglou, EIC Programme Manager June 2020 – May 2024. Photo credits: European Union The European Innovation Council (EIC) aims to improve Europe’s ability to translate its world leading science to market and produce breakthrough technologies. It has a mix of bottom-u … | Continue reading
Photo: European Defence Agency Big defence companies have major sway in the European Defence Fund (EDF), but there’s space for – and interest from – all kinds of organisations as defence research goes mainstream. The €7.9 billion EDF was launched in 2021 to give the defence indus … | Continue reading
One of the vital elements in the decarbonisation of the energy sector is storage, since it enables integrating the production of energy generated through renewable sources on a larger scale. However, there are still several technological challenges. The SINNOGENES project seeks t … | Continue reading
At Gasthuisberg campus, the foundation stone has been laid for STEPS, KU Leuven’s new skills centre for students and health professionals. This building will house innovative learning environments and advanced simulation technologies for students in the Biomedical Sciences Group … | Continue reading
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for facilitating international networking and research coordination opportunities for scientists supported by the two funding schemes. On … | Continue reading
On behalf of the government, Vinnova and the Swedish Armed Forces are starting a programme to use civil-military synergies in research and development with aim of strengthening Swedish defense capabilities. The program is carried out with support of the Swedosj Defense Research A … | Continue reading
Our conference, to be held this autumn at Cyrill and Method University (a member of UNICA), will highlight the opportunities to strengthen the European Research Area and explore how entities, researchers, and innovators can benefit most from the EU's research framework based on e … | Continue reading
Our conference, to be held this autumn at Cyrill and Method University (a member of UNICA), will highlight the opportunities to strengthen the European Research Area and explore how entities, researchers, and innovators can benefit most from the EU's research framework based on e … | Continue reading
On 7 June 2024, the Minister of Science and Higher Education, Dariusz Wieczorek, appointed Professor Jerzy Małachowski as Director of the National Centre for Research and Development (Polish: NCBR – Narodowe Centrum Badań I Rozwoju). As of 7 March this year, Prof. Małachowski has … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Dati Bendo / European Union The European Commission is blaming the EU’s economic stagnation on low investment in research and innovation, in the European Semester report, the bloc’s main policy tool for coordinating economic and fiscal policy across the 27 member s … | Continue reading
Pope Francis discussed the potential impact of AI with G7 leaders during the Borgo Egnazia Summit in Brindisi, Italy, June 14, 2024 Giuseppe Lami / ANSA / G7 Italia 2024 / Flickr The rise of artificial intelligence has been rattling world leaders over its potential impact on poli … | Continue reading
ARX Robotics’ unmanned ground systems, one of four start-ups to receive NATO Innovation Fund investment. Photo credits: ARX Robotics NATO’s €1 billion deep tech venture capital fund has announced its first investments in four defence start-ups that are working in robotics, artifi … | Continue reading
ARX Robotics’ unmanned ground systems, one of four start-ups to receive NATO Innovation Fund investment. Photo credits: ARX Robotics NATO’s €1 billion deep tech venture capital fund has announced its first investments in four defence start-ups that are working in robotics, artifi … | Continue reading
Balint Odor, Hungary’s permanent representative to the EU, attending the press briefing on June 18, in Brussels. Photo credits: Hungarian Presidency of the Council / Flickr During its six-month stint at the helm of the Council of the EU, Hungary aims to gather political support f … | Continue reading
Women’s representation in most scientific fields is improving, but the senior ranks in academia are still dominated by men. This report is the result of a collaboration between the Elsevier Foundation, EWORA and the Science|Business Network. It provides recommendations to inspire … | Continue reading
Professor Antti Honkela from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Professor Samuel Kaski from Aalto University, Finland, and University of Manchester, UK, are part of the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI. Their Japanese collaboration partner is from RIKEN, whic … | Continue reading
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on Wednesday, 19 June 2024, signed a new Cooperation Agreement with Charles University and the school‘s Faculty of Law. The agreement is intended to further develop existing cooperation to promote academic engagement through teaching and research on … | Continue reading
Transnational cooperation is a unique feature of the European university landscape, contributing to Europe’s international attractiveness and competitiveness and enhancing its resilience and future sustainability. In recent years, alliances created under the European Universities … | Continue reading
The policy TU/e started in 2019 to attract more female scientists has delivered results, the evaluation shows. Over the past five years, the female-male ratio in terms of intake has been about 50-50, where it used to be 30-70. The initial primary goal of this Irène Curie Fellowsh … | Continue reading
The EU has officially launched its Destination Earth (DestinE) system, paving the way for the creation of a digital replica of our planet by 2030. DestinE’s main goal is to help Europe to better respond to major natural disasters, adapt to climate change and assess the potential … | Continue reading