Climate change can accelerate due to feedback mechanisms: complex phenomena caused by climate change which in turn can further boost climate change. One example of this is the additional CO2 emission from thawing permafrost. Research into the long-term influence of feedback mecha … | Continue reading
Climate change can accelerate due to feedback mechanisms: complex phenomena caused by climate change which in turn can further boost climate change. One example of this is the additional CO2 emission from thawing permafrost. Research into the long-term influence of feedback mecha … | 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
GSK will become the first partner of the new Imperial-led Fleming Initiative, which aims to tackle antimicrobial resistance globally. Global biopharma company GSK will become the first founding partner of the Fleming Initiative, an innovative and collaborative new approach led by … | Continue reading
Even though our smartphones have more speed and memory with the release of each new model, we don't have to charge the battery more often. The energy consumption of those compact computers in our pockets remains limited, despite the increasing computing power of electronic chips. … | Continue reading
Anna Christmann, the German ESA ministerial council chair, and federal aerospace coordinator, attending the Competitiveness Council on May 23, 2024. Photo credits: European Union EU ministers called for increased public and private investment to support innovation in the space se … | Continue reading
Bettina Stark-Watzinger, German Minister of Education and Research. Photo: BMBF / Hans-Joachim Rickel Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Science|Business has partnered with Table.Media, a leading source of news about higher education and research in Germany. Each week, we … | Continue reading
South Africa's investment in advancing nuclear medicine research to address critical health challenges, including various cancers and TB, has been boosted with the official opening of Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI) on Tuesday, 21 May. Unveiled by the Minister o … | Continue reading
The National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI Office) has announced a new HUF 8 billion call to support the launch of international research projects led by excellent Hungarian research teams and involving the world’s top universities and research institutes focu … | Continue reading
The US government biomedical and health research funding agency set out its vision during a visit to Imperial's White City Deep Tech Campus. Dr Renee Wegrzyn, the Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), emphasised the importance of working with glob … | Continue reading
On May 23, ASML and TU/e signed an agreement on a significant expansion of their collaboration. They will conduct more joint research and train more PhD students in areas such as plasma physics, mechatronics, optics and AI, based on common roadmaps. The expansion is an investment … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Thijs ter Haar / Flickr A growing number of European universities are ending their ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, including in existing Horizon Europe projects, prompting Israel’s science minister to hold emergency talks with the country’s research leaders … | Continue reading
People protesting against Gaza strip bombing on July 16, 2014, in Milan. Photo credits: tinx / BigStock A growing number of European universities are ending their ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, including in existing Horizon Europe projects, prompting Israel’s science mini … | Continue reading
On May 15 in Brussels, CNRS was awarded the European Prize for Gender Equality in the "advanced" category. The award recognizes the CNRS's commitment to gender equality over the past twenty years. Created in 2023 at the initiative of the European Commission, the European Gender E … | Continue reading
The latest news THE FUTURE OF WIDENING: We analyse 15 FP10 position papers to find out what Europe’s research community thinks of Widening measures. There is a lot of consensus and some disaccord. The general verdict? Widening should live to fight another day, but it might need a … | Continue reading
Former MEP Maria da Graça Carvalho. Photo credits: Alexis Haulot / European Union Maria da Graça Carvalho has reiterated her support for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) amid mounting calls for the agency to be scrapped. Carvalho, former MEP and now Portu … | Continue reading
Photo: Selena N. B. H / Flickr “After a more than modest career, some researchers started to publish a very high number of articles, in some cases more than 100 research articles per year, which means one article every three days,”said Romania’s top research association, Ad Astra … | Continue reading
There is strong support for Widening to be retained in the EU’s next research and innovation framework programme, FP10, with an analysis of 15 position papers showing universities, research organisations and industry groups are in favour of keeping the measures in place. However, … | Continue reading
Marek Konarzewski, president of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Photo: PAN The reform of the Polish Academy of Sciences could impact the autonomy of its institutes, diminishing their decision-making power, warns Przemysław Urbańczyk, professor of archaeology at Cardinal Stefan Wy … | Continue reading
Jaroslav Bukovina, head of the policy unit at Slovakia’s research and innovation authority (VAIA) In early April, the president of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Michiel Scheffer visited Slovakia, where he talked to Slovak innovators and key partners from the public sector … | Continue reading
Tim Bedford (left), vice president of CESAER, and Malte Lohan, director general of Orgalim. With the push to implement an EU industrial policy that will make our industries more competitive, and as attention turns to designing the next research framework programme, the opportunit … | Continue reading
Simq is a German start-up that specialises in medical simulations. Photo: Simq The concept of digital twins has a long history in engineering, where the creation of digital copies of machines or systems allows performance testing and fine-tuning without the cost of rebuilding the … | Continue reading
The European Commission will open this year’s €608.6 million MSCA doctoral networks call for proposals next week. Here’s what the programme funds and who is eligible to apply. Doctoral networks is a very popular, and thus oversubscribed, EU funding programme for forming internati … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The EU has invested over €8 billion in the past six years in key initiatives to establish Europe as a leader in quantum technology. One of the most significant is QuantERA, a transnational consortium and the most extensive EU funding programme for … | Continue reading
Photo: Bigstock If you’re looking for private funding for your work in artificial intelligence, the US is the place to be. If it’s AI research you want to do, the place is probably China. And if you’re in Europe? It’s complicated. That’s what the data suggest in a new OECD report … | Continue reading
Simq is a German start-up that specialises in medical simulations. Photo: Simq The concept of digital twins has a long history in engineering, where the creation of digital copies of machines or systems allows performance testing and fine-tuning without the cost of rebuilding the … | Continue reading
Photo: Bigstock The European Commission needs to step up its oversight of the private consultants that are playing an increasingly prominent role in Europe’s innovation funding system, as competition to win grants from Horizon Europe increases and new participants attempt to take … | Continue reading
French President Emmanuel Macron speaking at the Choose France 2024 summit. Photo: Élysée – Présidence de la République française Last week, companies committed to investing €15 billion in France, including funding for health and battery research and development. The boost in ind … | Continue reading
Cemex cement plant in Alicante, Spain. Photo credits: Cemex When it comes to reaching net zero, not all sectors are created equal. In the buildings and construction sector, which is responsible for around 37% of global emissions, most of the attention has so far focused on reduci … | Continue reading
A new satellite called EarthCARE to be launched later this month will provide unprecedented data on clouds and aerosols that will help ECMWF to initialise its weather forecasts. EarthCARE is a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Explorati … | Continue reading
Medicine, climate, quantum physics or materials science. These are just few of the areas where supercomputing and modelling can play a major role in scientific, industrial, and social development. To strategically improve cooperation between Europe and Japan in this area of resea … | Continue reading
Karolinska Institutet has signed a memorandum of understanding with the pharmaceutical company Chiesi, which has an office and laboratory facility in KI Science Park. The parties have agreed to strengthen efforts that can accelerate research and development in areas such as respi … | Continue reading
May 1st 2024 marked the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic joining the European Union (EU). The past 20 years have profoundly changed the Czech research landscape, German-Czech research cooperation and the European Research Area. “Science has greatly benefitted from the possi … | Continue reading
New research published today shows the photonics industries in Europe, the US, and Asia outpaced global GDP from 2019 to the post-pandemic period of 2022, growing at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 6.8% despite geopolitical risks significantly affecting international trad … | Continue reading
Ricardo Miguéis, head of INESC Brussels HUB. It’s an increasingly binary world, where two opposites are presented as the only options available - and this lack of nuance is now infecting research and innovation policy. Take for instance: Research Infrastructures versus Technolog … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Flickr Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published itemised costs of a $36 million trial it conducted comparing different drug combinations for treating tuberculosis and wants others to follow suit, in a bid to foster transparency around the cost of clinical resea … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Flickr Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published the costs of its $36 million tuberculosis trial and wants other research funders to follow suit, in a bid to foster transparency around drug development. It says it is the first time detailed costs of an individua … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Fraunhofer IOF One of the world’s leading applied research organisations says the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is “overly complex, costly and non-transparent” and should be “discontinued”. In a scathing paper, Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellsch … | Continue reading
Photo credits: fdecomite / Flickr Technology transfer and innovation are central themes of Germany’s traffic light government coalition. However, the scientific institutions responsible for technology transfer suffer from insufficient resources and a lack of appreciation. Further … | Continue reading
A €104 million investment in scientific research across Ireland is being announced today by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan TD, and Minister for Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD. T … | Continue reading
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics and scientific publishing, is pleased to announce an innovative partnership with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) with a focus on open access. The read and publish transformative agreement, effective … | Continue reading
A nasal vaccine against pertussis that was tested using a model and cell bank created by the PERISCOPE project is entering the final phases of clinical trials. | Continue reading
This upgrade, part of the Spanish government's Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024, will increase MareNostrum 5's processing capacity by almost 50%, over 450 petaflops, or the ability to perform up to 450,000 trillion operations per second. Another of the main objectives of the … | Continue reading
Imperial College London and Brazil’s University of São Paulo (USP) have signed a new five-year partnership in research and education. Imperial – a world top ten university – have signed an agreement with Brazil’s top ranked university, USP, that will begin a new phase of closer c … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Maksim Labkouski / BigStock In a flurry of position papers released over the past few months, research lobbies have been calling for a €200 billion budget for FP10. Now, some of those organisations have teamed up to make their requests louder and stronger. “We must … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Web Summit / Flickr France is in line for €15 billion in industry investments in AI, pharmaceuticals and quantum, as the country’s seventh Choose France summit draws in commitments from around the world. Companies from outside France have pledged to invest €15 bill … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Auburn University / Flickr The US has been leading global development of artificial intelligence – but which universities are biggest in the sciences underlying the field? A Science|Business analysis of grants by the US National Science Foundation ranks Carnegie Me … | Continue reading
Photo credits: weyo / BigStock Swiss and EU negotiators are aiming to reach agreement on Horizon Europe association in the summer, which should allow full access to the programme for calls in 2025, but will not join the Copernicus earth monitoring project due to high costs. Switz … | Continue reading