Cities globally are invited to send their complex challenges to receive funding and pilot projects support in creating new smart city solutions. FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, located in Tallinn University of Technology, has started the 4th round of Smart City Challenge. The ai … | Continue reading
We are four years from its start. We have no idea what the budget will be. We haven’t even finished evaluating the current programme. Yet already, planning is in full swing for a next EU Framework Programme, FP10. That means Brussels is echoing with views, pro and con, on any Fra … | Continue reading
INESC Brussels HUB is the European representation of INESC, the largest Research Technology organisation in Portugal. Position - Strategic Administrative Management and Executive Support in R&I Institution Representation Work description This position is designed to provide mult … | Continue reading
Member states have signed off a negotiating mandate with Switzerland, clearing another hurdle in talks that pave the way for Swiss researchers to apply for European Research Council (ERC) grants. Switzerland has been locked out of Horizon Europe since Bern walked away from wider … | Continue reading
The European Commission should improve the adoption and publication of research work programmes in the next framework programme, FP10, say universities of applied sciences. UAS4Europe, an association of universities of applied sciences, believes applicants with fewer connection … | Continue reading
“I recall a conversation during my PhD studies where an important professor told me ‘you will either be a raven mother or a bad scholar’, meaning I could not have a family and be a good academic. Today, I want to convince young women and men in our field that it is possible’” sai … | Continue reading
EU negotiators are due to return to the table on Thursday in a final attempt to reach an agreement on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) before this summer’s European elections. The proposed legislation aims to improve individuals’ access to their health data and would facilit … | Continue reading
Karazin University. Photo: Science at Risk The total cost of reconstructing Ukraine’s public science infrastructure currently stands at more than $1.26 billion (€1.15 billion), according to a study by UNESCO. Russia’s invasion in February 2022 has caused severe damage to Ukraine’ … | Continue reading
Participants of the operational launch of the Open Quantum Institute (Image: CERN) The Open Quantum Institute (OQI) passes a new milestone today, with the operational launch at CERN. Following a successful one-year incubation period led by the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticip … | Continue reading
The Metsähovi Compact Array (MCA) has produced its first measurements at Aalto University's Metsähovi Radio Observatory. Several students from different disciplines participated in the design and construction of the system, which comprises several 5.5-metre radio telescopes. Mult … | Continue reading
New energy projects to receive £5.8 million in the latest round of the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF). Energy regulator Ofgem and Innovate UK have announced a £5.8 million package to fund feasibility studies for 44 projects as round three of the Ofgem Strategic Innovation … | Continue reading
Flexibility, agility, and resilience are the keywords of the new European project RISE-SME – Resilient Industry Supply Chain Enhancement for SMEs, featuring INESC TEC; this endeavour brings together partners from five European countries. The consortium will develop management mod … | Continue reading
The work illustrates the benefit of large datasets such as the EPND database to find important patterns in biological data. | Continue reading
Thomas Jørgensen is director for policy coordination and foresight at the European University Association The wave of new EU digital regulation has revealed a particular blind spot in EU policy making. While these regulations are not specific to universities, they do have a consi … | Continue reading
South Korea is set to strike a deal with Brussels to join Horizon Europe, the EU’s €95.5 billion research and innovation scheme, as the European Commission wants more democracies outside of Europe to associate. Speaking last week, Park Sang-ook, a senior science and technology of … | Continue reading
"I met some people that did not believe I was the Rector. The Vice Dean of Education, yes, it’s fine, but the Rector, that made always people say “oh, really?” said Hanne Leth Andersen, Rector of Roskilde University, when discussing her journey to the top. Listen to this engaging … | Continue reading
EU energy commissioner Kadri Simson. Photo: Tofik Babayev / European Union 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 are publishing one of each … | Continue reading
Photo: Clean Aviation / Flickr The Clean Aviation joint undertaking will need to unlock additional funding as it prepares to enter a new phase to bring its research closer to market, executive director Axel Krein said on Tuesday. The EU’s industrial partnership for sustainable av … | Continue reading
Erwin Gianchandani is the US National Science Foundation’s assistant director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, leading the newly established TIP Directorate. Photo: Amanda Joy Mason / NSF The US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) new impact-focused directorate is kee … | Continue reading
Photo: RELX website. Elsevier, a global leader in information and data analytics, has signed a multi-year agreement with Iktos(opens in new tab/window), a company specializing in artificial intelligence for new drug discovery. The partnership will strengthen Elsevier's flagship c … | Continue reading
CERN and the not-for-profit organization OAPEN Foundation are happy to announce a further expansion of their collaboration to jointly promote open access to books. Since 2021, CERN and the OAPEN Foundation have collaborated to disseminate books that are made available in open acc … | Continue reading
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Mr Jiří Kozák, recently visited the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) to explore potential areas of collaboration with South Africa. The … | Continue reading
Science|Business plans to roll out a newsletter tailored for research and innovation professionals. This article provides a sneak peek into the kind of information you may expect in the coming weeks, ahead of a full launch this spring. With the European University Alliances initi … | Continue reading
The three-year ECMWF-coordinated project for a prototype system for a Copernicus CO2 service (CoCO2) to monitor anthropogenic CO2 emissions worldwide has concluded its ambitious programme successfully. The purpose of this EU-funded initiative was to feed into a permanent anthropo … | Continue reading
A significant new research facility, driving advances in health policy and preventing and treating disease, has officially opened today. The new School of Public Health building at Imperial College London’s White City Campus was opened by Professor Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Med … | Continue reading
Eveline Crone is a professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and academic lead of Healthy Start. Photo: Marc de Haan / Wikimedia Commons The last two EU research framework programmes may have emphasised the importance of the social sciences and humanities in bringing about so … | Continue reading
Latest news CZECHIA MUST CAPITALISE ON RESEARCH: Czechia has great academic science but is failing to capitalise on it, according to prime minister, Petr Fiala, who recently kicked off a series of reforms designed to improve the knowledge transfer system and to increase the numbe … | Continue reading
Greece dominates the list of top performers for winning Horizon Europe funding among the 15 EU Widening countries, with six out of the top 10 places taken by the country’s institutions. Out on top is the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), one of the largest resear … | Continue reading
The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres is the largest scientific organisation in Germany. Photo: Helmholtz Association The EU’s next framework research programme FP10 should continue funding projects aimed at bridging Europe’s research and innovation gap, Germany’s … | Continue reading
Venture capital for start-ups is in short supply across Europe, with central and eastern Europe particularly hard hit. A recent study found that investment in start-ups in Widening countries fell by 57% between 2022 and 2023, against a 45% drop across the continent as a whole At … | Continue reading
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala speaking at the opening of the conference to introduce the reform of knowledge transfer systems on January 25. Photo: Government of the Czech Republic Czechia has launched a series of reforms aiming to improve the environment for commercialising re … | Continue reading
Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for Internal Market, speaking at a press conference today on the European Defence Industrial Strategy. Photo: Claudio Centonze / European Union The European Commission has announced a legislative proposal to boost the EU defence industry, inc … | Continue reading
Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck has backed recommendations by the Expert Commission for Research and Innovation to improve the country's R&I ecosystem. Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr Germany has managed to become a net importer of scientists, but still … | Continue reading
“The red line was combining my academic occupation and political career. In early days, some older male professors said I had to choose. But for me, I knew I needed this to fully develop myself. […] I think it was also what we call ‘recognition and rewards’ in an early stage’” sa … | Continue reading
Marija Slavkovik, professor and head of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. In today’s global gold rush to develop artificial intelligence, a lot of the funding has been going to business innovation rather than early-stage … | Continue reading
European bio-based sector has come a long way since the EU adopted its first bioeconomy strategy in 2012 and with the Commission due to present its biotech and biomanufacturing initiative later this month, action is needed to build on these foundations and strengthen the competit … | Continue reading
Prof. dr. Jovan Antovic, Prof. dr. Vladimir Jakovljevic and Prof. dr. Anders Franco-Cereceda Photo: Karolinska Institutet website. The Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery and the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Kragujevac in Serbia has now formalized a m … | Continue reading
The Deputy Prime Minister, Oliver Dowden MP, visited Imperial today to deliver a major speech on the use of AI in public services. The UK has the potential to become a leader in the deployment of AI in the public sector, the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) said, increasing productivi … | Continue reading
Despite an unstable global economy, Swedish startups in 2023 continued to draw in investments totaling 4.7 billion euros. Almost 75% of the total venture capital investment was raised by impact startups. These and more insights are highlighted in the report Sweden tech report 202 … | Continue reading
Innovation is critical for companies to remain successful over the long term. At the same time, innovation demands large investments and entails a lot of risk. "An innovation project can quickly cost CHF 2 million, and it takes a good two years until we know if the new idea can b … | Continue reading
Elsevier Health and OpenEvidence collaborated in the development of ClinicalKey AI with input from Cone Health, University of New Mexico and more than 30,000 physicians from across the US. ClinicalKey AI will enable easy and secure access to some of the world’s most trusted medic … | Continue reading
Sylvie Retailleau (left) during a visit at Imperial College London last week. France and the UK have set up a joint committee to cooperate on emerging technologies, in the latest sign that London’s scientific relations with the EU have thawed. Sylvie Retailleau, France’s higher … | Continue reading
The Korea-EU Research Centre is joining the Science Business Network as of March 2024. “We hope that research and development linkages between Korea and Europe become more stronger through active exchange and collaboration with the Network members.” As a bridgehead to enhance Kor … | Continue reading
Europe has a problem: its technology is advancing fast, but its supply of savvy innovators isn’t keeping pace. Remedying that will take a concerted effort by many: universities, industry, research infrastructure and government. That’s the message from a panel discussion 13 Febru … | Continue reading
The European Research Council (ERC) has introduced changes to how it assesses researchers. Photo: European Union Science|Business plans to roll out a newsletter tailored for research and innovation professionals. This article provides a sneak peek into the kind of information you … | Continue reading
“There is no room for any more illusions,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said as she called for the bloc to get serious about its defence on Wednesday. Ongoing geopolitical tensions require “a new European defence mindset from institutions to industries to in … | Continue reading
Photo: Univeristy of Tartu website. On Monday, 26 February, the University of Tartu and North Estonia Medical Centre renewed their cooperation agreement, which aims to promote mutual study and research, and develop the Estonian healthcare sector. The agreement was signed in the s … | Continue reading