Photo credits: MediaWhalestock / BigStock More universities are seeking official guidance from the European Commission as they struggle to assess whether Israeli institutions are still eligible to join Horizon Europe projects, as the Israeli war against Hamas is raising ethical q … | Continue reading
Twelve international research projects have received funding from the Global Research Council (GRC) to develop solutions contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Norwegian researchers are involved in five of these projects. This is the first time the … | Continue reading
On April 9, a delegation led by Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society (Germany), visited the RIKEN Tokyo and Wako Campuses. On the Wako Campus, they met with Executive Directors including President Makoto Gonokami and exchanged views on past and future act … | Continue reading
The British Heart Foundation has awarded funding to advance cardiovascular research and ‘digital twins’ technology. Researchers at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) have been awarded £5 million from the British Heart Foundation as part of the charity’s highly competiti … | Continue reading
South Korea will operate strategic research and development (R&D) centers in the United States and Europe to enhance global R&D collaborations, the science ministry said Thursday. The strategic hubs aim to create a network between small overseas research centers in the regions an … | Continue reading
MEP Marc Botenga. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union For the past five years Marc Botenga has been one of the most vocal critics of the EU’s industrial strategy. Now, as he bids for re-election on Sunday, the Belgian MEP is taking aim at Berlaymont’s latest fixation: EU c … | Continue reading
President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Nadia Calviño with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on a visit to the country in May. Photo: EIB Poland is rapidly expanding its earth observation capacity, with a constellation of at least four satellites for civil use planned to … | Continue reading
Marc Lemaître, director-general for research and innovation at the European Commission, has sought to clarify Hungary's participation in Horizon Europe. Photo: Frédéric Sierakowski / European Union The European Commission has moved to clarify the right of Hungarian researchers to … | Continue reading
Plans for the approximately 34-metre Ukraine-owned beamline at the Solaris synchrotron in Kraków. Photo: SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre A project to build a new beamline for Ukrainian scientists in Poland has received a €1 million boost thanks to a grant from the S … | Continue reading
Toivo Maimets, professor and chair of cell biology at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Photo: Andres Tennus In many Widening countries, researchers lack funding to build research labs and research groups. Even when young people wish to come back to their home country, there ar … | Continue reading
MEP Christian Ehler. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union Christian Ehler, the German MEP who has been playing a leading role in the EU’s research framework programmes, is running for another term in the elections this week. Ehler has been a member of the European Parliamen … | Continue reading
Ronald de Bruin, Director of COST- European Cooperation in Science & Technology, and candidate for the European Parliament. Millions of voters are heading to the polls this week for the European elections. Not surprisingly, most of the campaigning is dominated by hot-button issue … | Continue reading
Carleton University in Ottawa. Photo: Harleyd613, Wikimedia Commons An unusual coalition of funding agencies from eight countries announced C$90 million (€61 million) in grants for 32 international teams of researchers studying ways to mitigate the global effects of climate chang … | Continue reading
Berlaymont building in Brussels. Photo credits: Georges Boulougouris / European Union IPCEIs, or Important Projects of Common European Interest, are as complex as the acronym may suggest, and they’re becoming an increasingly important EU tool in funding research, development and … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Mike Mozart / Flickr The pandemic is over. War is brewing. That, anyway, is what the latest US government numbers on its R&D spending might suggest. In its annual review of US R&D spending, the US National Science Board reported a big surge last year at the Departm … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Last month, EU ministers released a joint resolution calling for increased public and private investment in the space sector to enhance European competitiveness and emphasising the potential of space services to support industry, climate protectio … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Black Salmon / BigStock There is increasing recognition that challenges such as climate change and chronic diseases require research on a global scale, but with many different national funding agencies involved, the calls for proposals often do not meet the needs o … | Continue reading
Quantum computer. Photo credits: Marko Aliaksandr / BigStock Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at breakneck pace, with the EU struggling to keep up with the regulatory, competitive and economic implications. But quantum computing is one technology which has the potential … | Continue reading
Photo credits: ShendArt / BigStock Gender equality plans (GEPs) are a requirement for all institutions participating in the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme, but what makes a plan effective? The EU has funded several projects trying to understand what is required, in a bid … | Continue reading
European Innovation Council (EIC) president Michiel Scheffer during the Web Summit 2023 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo credits Oliver Hardt / Web Summit / Flickr The European Innovation Council (EIC) is one of the biggest investors in deep tech in the world, but i … | Continue reading
On June 1, Professor Sanaz Mostaghim took over as the new institute director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI. In this role, she is working together with Professor Matthias Klingner, the institute’s longstanding director, who will stay … | Continue reading
On June 1, Professor Sanaz Mostaghim took over as the new institute director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI. In this role, she is working together with Professor Matthias Klingner, the institute’s longstanding director, who will stay … | Continue reading
6G is the next generation of wireless communication technology that will provide the conditions for the advanced digital solutions of the future. Vinnova is now making investments to strengthen Sweden's position in the area. 6G networks are expected to lead to improved speed, dat … | Continue reading
The successful dozen will lead or co-lead a total of 11 STEM-related research projects via Science Foundation Ireland’s Frontiers for the Future programme, which is funded in collaboration with the Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The awards – each valued at app … | Continue reading
At a newly opened lab at KTH, space robots are training to navigate in weightless environments. The lab, one of the biggest of its kind in Europe, was built by the WASP NEST-project DISCOWER. The goal? To develop software and hardware for autonomous robots capable of navigating i … | Continue reading
The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), headed by Minister Lee Jong Ho, announced plans to invest a total of KRW 36 billion from this year until 2028 to secure AI technology competitiveness and leap into G3 of AI. This initiative aims to establish a premier AI research hub in Kor … | Continue reading
Imperial's leaders and academics met with universities, collaborators and policymakers in Denmark and Sweden to explore future research partnerships. Imperial also hosted a special event focusing on global health and technology at the British Embassy in Copenhagen to bring togeth … | Continue reading
Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on 27 May, 2024. Photo credits: European Union More European universities have announced they will suspend ties with Israel over its military campa … | Continue reading
As the European Union advances in its blue economy and energy transition goals, Portugal, particularly its Northern region, is emerging as a crucial player. Engineering the EU’s Blue Economy Portugal is positioning itself to become a leader in ocean engineering through coordinate … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Rawf8 / BigStoch More coordination is needed between the EU’s public-private partnerships and with other instruments in order to translate investment in health research into improved outcomes for patients, representatives of the programmes said on Tuesday. The Euro … | Continue reading
Nowadays, the commercialization of scientific and technological innovations is crucial for economic and social advancement. However, one of the biggest challenges is transforming scientific discoveries into viable market products and services. A recent study published in the CERN … | Continue reading
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will be showcasing nearly 50 exhibits from various disciplines and fields of research at the 2024 ILA Berlin aerospace expo, to be held from June 5 to 9. Fraunhofer institutes are scheduled to present urban aviation systems, satellite technology for qu … | Continue reading
A new clinical trial testing the best administration route for an experimental arthritis treatment is using outcome measures established by IMI project RT-Cure to evaluate its performance. | Continue reading
Collaboration between computer scientists at the University of Tartu in the development of an app for cancer diagnosis will be boosted through the university's investment company UniTartu Ventures. The new agreement will give the company Better Medicine the opportunity to use the … | Continue reading
CERN and the US government have released a joint statement concerning future planning for large research infrastructures, advanced scientific computing and open science. The Joint Statement of Intent was signed in Washington DC in April by CERN Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, … | Continue reading
MEP Christian Ehler. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union Europe needs a stronger science, research and innovation policy to safeguard our prosperity and our strategic autonomy, and to deliver on our objective of climate-neutrality by 2050. Both French president Emmanuel Ma … | Continue reading
MEP Christian Ehler. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union Europe needs a stronger science, research and innovation policy to safeguard our prosperity and our strategic autonomy, and to deliver on our objective of climate-neutrality by 2050. Both French president Emmanuel Ma … | Continue reading
MEP Patrizia Toia.Photo credits: Frédéric Marvaux / European Union A bigger EU budget is needed to ensure industry in Europe is not left behind by Green Deal legislation, and the answer could lie in replicating the EU’s response to COVID-19, the vice chair of the European Parliam … | Continue reading
Photo credits: IuriiMotov / BigStock The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has issued a stinging report criticising the European Commission’s AI strategy, finding that the EU underspent on AI by €600 million because of a delay in 2021 starting Horizon Europe. The ECA took aim at a … | Continue reading
The Fraunhofer Representation in Brussels plays a crucial role in positioning Fraunhofer within the European research and policy landscape, connecting with the European Commission, the European Parliament, Member States and various European associations. Your role will involve an … | Continue reading
Inside ITER, the international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject in France. Photo: Flickr Representatives from private fusion energy companies are this week meeting in France to discuss how ITER, the multi-billion-euro experimental fusion project, can better sha … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Last week EU ministers reached agreement on setting up new facilities to provide increased access to supercomputing services, in a bid to boost the development of new AI-based companies and products. The agreement broadens the objectives of the Eu … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union The results of the European Defence Fund’s (EDF) 2023 call released last week, saw 54 projects awarded total funding of just above €1 billion. In all, 581 organisations will take part in this third batch of projects, with SMEs receiving 18% of the to … | Continue reading
ESRIC logo's photo credits: ESRIC. Stars' photo credits: BigStock. Luxembourg’s European Space Resources Innovation Centre, (ESRIC), is working on setting up a start-up fund to complement its existing incubator, which helps innovators explore ideas for exploiting extra-terrestria … | Continue reading
Quantonation Ventures' team. Photo credits: Charlène Yves Quantum may yet turn out to be the next big trend in tech, but for now the market is relatively small. For a firm like Quantonation Ventures looking to get ahead of the curve, that means working with academics to explore t … | Continue reading
Henrike Hartmann, deputy secretary general of the Foundation. Photo credits: Nico Herzog / VolkswagenStiftung The Volkswagen Foundation doesn’t just to fund risky-friendly science, it’s bringing risk-taking to research funding too. “We want to support risk. We want to cross bound … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Vaughan Leiberum / Flickr A UK blueprint for forming university software spin-outs with no underlying patents aims to define a landing zone for commercialisation agreements that is equally acceptable to universities, founders and potential investors, and makes the … | Continue reading
Kaplan Kirakci is leading one of the six EIG CONCERT-Japan projects funded in 2023 and describes his experience as positive. The European Interest Group CONCERT-Japan (EIG CONCERT-Japan) brings together European national funding agencies with the Japan Science and Technology Agen … | Continue reading