In the coming years, TU/e will expand its key position in Dutch academia in the field of semiconductors with its Future Chips flagship. The outcome of Project Beethoven – 2.5 billion in Dutch investments in the chip sector – is an important stimulus for this. With the initiative, … | Continue reading
One of the largest independent gatherings of thought- and practice-leaders in governmental science advice, research funding, multi-lateral institutions, academia, science communication and diplomacy is taking place in Kigali, Rwanda. Organised by Prof Rémi Quirion, Chief Scientis … | Continue reading
Berlaymont Building of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Sébastien Bertrand / Flickr The European Commission has unveiled details of a new call under Horizon Europe that effectively replaces the European City of Science and the biennial EuroScience Open F … | Continue reading
ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Photo credits: Shepard4711 / Flickr By the standards of most universities, ETH Zurich produces a lot of spin-off companies. In the past decade the total has ranged from 22 to 34 new ventures each year, with a record-breaking 43 new spin-offs created in 20 … | Continue reading
Photo credits: dhvstockphoto / BigStock Horizon Europe’s Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has just opened its big call for proposals for the year, with €213 million to be distributed to innovation, research and support projects across 18 topics. The calls, ope … | Continue reading
Northvolt's battery gigafactory in Sweden. Photo credits: Northvolt A Horizon Europe effort to boost EU battery production is rebooting itself with a new technology strategy and new funding calls in 2025. But it acknowledges the tough challenge Europe still faces from mounting ba … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The EU health sector is undergoing significant change, with the European Parliament and the Council of the EU recently reaching a deal on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and setting set the stage to take negotiations on the new pharmaceutica … | Continue reading
Bart Veys, head of policy at COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Photo credits: COST Research isn’t always a level playing field. More men than women become researchers and they are more likely to progress to senior positions. A few top research organisations a … | Continue reading
Florin Zubașcu, Executive Editor at Science|Business. After two decades of covering the nuts and bolts of European research and innovation policy, we are taking a step forward to launch a new service to help our audience sift through an increasingly heavy information landscape on … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Commission / European Union A new ranking compiled by Science|Business shows three big multinationals – Thales, Leonardo and Airbus – have been winning the lion’s share of research and technology development grants from the European Defence Fund. Since 202 … | Continue reading
Through the advanced use of biological systems, industrial biotechnology is promising to reduce dependency on petro-chemicals and enable the creation of novel products, while contributing to a more competitive and resilient EU, as well as accelerating the green and digital transi … | Continue reading
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) encouraged to bid for a share of £7 million for artificial intelligence (AI) projects. SMEs looking to adopt AI solutions to address a business challenge in high-growth industries could receive a share of £7 million as two new competition … | Continue reading
21 March 2024. GÉANT is delighted to announce the publication of the OCRE 2024 Tender for the large-scale procurement of commercial cloud services offerings for its pan-European Research and Education community. The tender aims to procure the OCRE 2024 Cloud framework agreements … | Continue reading
More than 22% of clean and sustainable technologies worldwide are developed in the European Union. Low-carbon energy technologies, clean mobility and alternatives to plastics are the leading fields in cleantech inventions developed in Europe. Although 29% of EU cleantech innovato … | Continue reading
Working together to expedite technological innovations in the fields of battery cell and semiconductor technology: That is the aim of a comprehensive international collaboration program funded by the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). The Fraunhofer-Gesellscha … | Continue reading
Photo: Imperial College London website. Imperial and France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) are continuing to strengthen the science links between the UK and France. The two institutes – who formed a major partnership in 2022 – outlined their ambitions for furthe … | Continue reading
French president Emmanuel Macron during his speech at Sorbonne University, Paris, on April 25th, 2024. Photo credits: Emmanuel Macron / YouTube The EU needs to fundamentally change, including the way it invests in research and innovation, or it might die. That was the gist of a s … | Continue reading
French president Emmanuel Macron during his speech at Sorbonne University, Paris, on April 25th, 2024. Photo credits: Emmanuel Macron / YouTube The EU needs to fundamentally change, including the way it invests in research and innovation, or it might die. That was the gist of a s … | Continue reading
New hand-sized gas analyser to detect multiple toxic gases in real-time with lasers Scientists hope to make them as common as video surveillance, with units on every lamp post Least polluted routes to work or school could be integrated into Google Maps in the future Consortium re … | Continue reading
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met British soldiers stationed at the Polish military base on April 23rd, 2024, in Warsaw, Poland. Picture by Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street The UK will spend at least 7% of a growing defence budget on R&D and military-related science and techn … | Continue reading
For a period of up to three months, researchers – including master’s degree and PhD students – affiliated with universities or other research organisations outside Portugal, will have the opportunity to carry out research activities at INESC TEC. The initiative is called Internat … | Continue reading
MEP Christian Ehler speaking at the EP Plenary session during the voting procedure on the measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act), April 25th, 2024. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union MEPs have been … | Continue reading
Professor A. (Tom) Veldkamp will remain rector magnificus of the University of Twente for the next four years. The Supervisory Board has decided on his reappointment, which takes effect on 1 October 2024. Veldkamp has been part of the UT's Executive Board since 2020, which furthe … | Continue reading
Prof.dr. Annelien Bredenoord has been appointed by the Supervisory Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) as President of the Executive Board (CvB). Bredenoord has been a member of the CvB as Rector Magnificus since September 2021 and will start in her new position as Presid … | Continue reading
Stockholm University is actively working towards an open science system, and as part of this work, the university, represented by President Astrid Söderbergh Widding, has recently signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. The declaration aims to make research … | Continue reading
On 28 March, the European University Association’s new Task and Finish Group on Artificial Intelligence held its first meeting in Brussels. Universities are moving towards a more institutional and strategic approach to artificial intelligence, with AI ethics firmly at the top of … | Continue reading
In order for Swedish life science to be able to grow and compete internationally, active collaborative arenas and actors are needed to set the ball rolling. Functions are needed for cooperation and control that drive development forward. A report shows, among other things, how st … | Continue reading
Ministerial events of the OECD Science and Technology Policy Ministerial, in Paris, France, April 23, 2024. Photo credits: Maud Bernos / OECD Science ministers from across the world have endorsed a new approach to how new technologies are regulated, warning that governments need … | Continue reading
Ministerial events of the OECD Science and Technology Policy Ministerial, in Paris, France, April 23, 2024. Photo credits: Maud Bernos / OECD Science ministers from across the world have endorsed a new approach to how new technologies are regulated, warning that governments need … | Continue reading
Elsevier, a global leader in research information and analytics, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), today announce the results of their collaboration to explore the emerging concept of a ‘4th generation university’: global universities that are fully integrated in the … | Continue reading
The latest news DON’T FORGET ABOUT RIGA: Major investors in Latvia have scored its investment climate at its lowest level in a decade. War, they say, makes business uncertain. But those on the ground in Latvia say this cooled interest masks what is gradually becoming an interesti … | Continue reading
Both in Europe and beyond, policy makers are striving to increase the sustainability and resilience of their economies and societies, in the face of a complex array of macro trends and crises. In recent years, the concept of regional innovation ecosystems (RIEs) has come to the f … | Continue reading
The Technology and Ukraine: Lessons from the front line event at the European Parliament on April 16. Photo credits: Digital Europe Investing in start-ups in Ukraine is great, but what the country needs from the EU is to incentivise big companies, scale-ups and mid-caps to build … | Continue reading
Photo credits: artmim / BigStock Key investors in Latvia are calling on the prime minister, Evika Silina, to focus on long-term planning and improving competitiveness after an assessment rated the country’s investment climate at its lowest point since studies began in 2015. The 2 … | Continue reading
Photo: Bigstock The European Commission has announced that it has opened early stage talks with Singapore about associating to Horizon Europe. As part of a push to open up the research and innovation programme to distant, “like-minded” democracies, South Korea, Canada and New Zea … | Continue reading
On the morning of April 16, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) met with President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Photo credits: Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Cambodia China's state security recruited three individuals in G … | Continue reading
MEPs of the research and industry committee during a voting procedure. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union MEPs are gathering in Strasbourg this week for the last plenary session in the current EU legislature, with many of them about to enter into campaign mode ahead of th … | Continue reading
German chancellor Olaf Scholz. Photo credits: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Flickr German chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown his weight behind an EU capital markets union to close the bloc’s innovation gap with the US by allowing far more private funding to flow into European start-ups … | Continue reading
Mathieu Michel, state secretary for digitalisation, has championed blockchain as a priority for the Belgian EU presidency. Photo credits: European Union Belgium has made blockchain one of the priorities of its EU presidency, in particular the relaunch of the European Blockchain S … | Continue reading
KTH has received funding for a new extensive project in nuclear energy technology. The platform for nuclear materials, NuMaP - Nuclear Materials Platform, receives about 40 million SEK from the Swedish Energy Agency. KTH will receive 17 million SEK. "This collaboration strengthen … | Continue reading
On 10 April 2024, the EUA Council approved the applications of 15 new members. The European University Association is pleased to welcome the following institutions as individual full members: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) University of South Brittany (France) Univ … | Continue reading
NCBR has announced a call for proposals for joint projects between scientists and entrepreneurs who wish to receive funding from Swiss Funds in the area of applied research. The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 July, with 15 million Swiss francs, which is more than PLN 6 … | Continue reading
Monica Schofield is a R&D consultant and head of a funding advice unit at Tutech, a TTO serving Hamburg University of Technology. She is also convenor of a task force on responsible innovation for the European Industrial Research Management Association of which she is an individu … | Continue reading
The consortium published a series of recommendations for how the regulatory process in the EU for approving cell and gene therapies could be sped up. | Continue reading
What effect do images have? Why do we look at them? What is our attitude towards them? Professor Annette Haug will be exploring these questions. She is the first scholar at Kiel University (CAU) to receive an ERC Advanced Grant, which is how the European Research Council (ERC) su … | Continue reading
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As part of a strategic partnership, Polytechnique Montréal and Institut polytechnique de Paris are reaffirming and expanding their teaching and research collaboration in the fields of engineering, science and management. At the 21st alternating meeting of the premiers of Québec a … | Continue reading