Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Photo credits: jiawangkun / BigStock After years of complaints about under-funding, the Canadian government announced plans for a big rise in spending on research and education – including new investments in artificial intelligence, resea … | Continue reading
TalTech Estonian Maritime Academy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Estonian Foundation CR14 to collaborate on maritime cyb … | Continue reading
Alstom, a global leader in sustainable and smart mobility, and AtkinsRéalis, a global leader in professional services and project management, dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people, signed an agreement with Polytechnique Montréal to develop a train … | Continue reading
The heightened collaboration aims to help create new pathways for business investment and promote growth through innovation. Innovate UK and the British Business Bank have further strengthened their collaboration by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU). As partners dedicat … | Continue reading
On April 5, distinguished INESC researchers Ana Paiva (INESC-ID) and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva (INOV and INESC-ID) were officially appointed as Secretaries of State in a ceremony at Ajuda Palace in Lisbon, presided over by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo … | 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 Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Science|Busi … | Continue reading
European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen speaking at the European Defence & Security Summit 2024, on April 17, 2024. Photo credits: Aurore Martignoni / European Union Following the shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, defence spending and R&D has jumped up the EU’s li … | Continue reading
Berlaymont building, headquarter of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union The European Commission is adding €1.4 billion to the Horizon Europe research programme this year, in latest amendment to 2023 and 2024 spending plans. Th … | Continue reading
Former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta (left) and the European Council president Charles Michel attending the press conference on the Report on the future of the Single Market on April 17, 2024. Photo credits: European Union The European Union needs a revamped single market t … | Continue reading
The ECRD is recognised globally as the largest, patient-led rare disease policy event in which collaborative dialogue, learning and conversation takes place, forming the groundwork to shape goal-driven rare disease policies and allow for important and innovative discussions on a … | Continue reading
Michiel Scheffer, president of the European Innovation Council, during day two of Web Summit 2023 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo credits: Oliver Hardt / Flickr European investment in research and innovation is “insufficient, in both quantity and quality”, and shou … | Continue reading
Empty European Parliament hemicycle in Strasbourg. Photo credits: Mathieu Cugnot / European Union The European Parliament elections are drawing near and as Brussels prepares for a new class of MEPs, the research and innovation community is looking to see who will be returning to … | Continue reading
Maria Mrówczyńska, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Photo credits: Service of the Republic of Poland Poland’s government maintains a strong backing for its main innovation funding agency, the National Centre for Research and Development (NC … | Continue reading
The Israel Innovation Authority today unveiled a new Deep Tech “Incubator Fund” as part its “Boost for the Israeli High-Tech” initiative, with an emphasis on nurturing new startups while diversifying the tech landscape and strengthening Israel’s innovation competitiveness against … | Continue reading
Representatives of the African Union and European Union officially open the Enrich in Africa Center in Cape Town. From left to right, Principal Scientific Officer at the African Union Commission’s Department of Education, Science and Technology, Monica Ebele Idinoba; EU Ambassado … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Herman Van Rompuy / Flickr Science academies in G7 countries have told their governments to discuss nuclear arms control ahead of a summit in June, marking the first time the issue has been marked out as a scientific priority. Each year, academies from the US, Cana … | Continue reading
A new agreement has been signed between Vinnova, the Swedish Research Council and National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA which will enable joint research and innovation initiatives. The first goal is initiatives within 6G, the next generation of wireless communication techn … | Continue reading
In the United States-Japan Joint Leaders’ Statement released today, the collaboration between RIKEN and Argonne National Laboratory on AI for Science was welcomed. On April 5, the two institutes signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for carrying out joint research in the are … | Continue reading
Innovate UK CEO, Indro Mukerjee, has unveiled the UK Agri-Tech Centre, the UK’s largest agri-tech organisation responsible for driving innovation in the sector. This follows last September’s announcement that three existing Agri-Tech Centres will join forces to create a new integ … | Continue reading
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Nicole Grobert (left), chair of the scientific advice group SAM, Margrethe Vestager (second from left), Commission executive vice-president, and research commissioner Iliana Ivanova (center) on April 15, 2024. Photo credits: Iliana Ivanova / Linkedin Scientific advisors to the Eu … | Continue reading
Nicole Grobert (left), chair of the scientific advice group SAM, Margrethe Vestager (second from left), Commission executive vice-president, and research commissioner Iliana Ivanova (center) on April 15, 2024. Photo credits: Iliana Ivanova / Linkedin Scientific advisors to the Eu … | Continue reading
The meeting of INESC TEC’s General Council took place on April 11, with the election of the Associative Bodies for the 2024-2026 term. The 2023 Financial and Activity Reports were also approved. The General Council unanimously approved the proposal for the members of the Associat … | Continue reading
Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation. Since 1985, governments and public funding agencies in our network have supported the R&D of over 7,000 ground-breaking commercialised innovations that have positively impacted econo … | Continue reading
Conference on Quantum Technologies in Europe, Madrid, 2023. Photo: Antonio Marcos 14th April marks World Quantum Day – an annual celebration dedicated to spreading awareness about quantum technologies (QT). Scientists predict that within a decade these technologies will significa … | Continue reading
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Photo credits: Dati Bendo / European Union The Polish government is backing the inclusion of dual-use technologies in the EU’s next seven-year research and innovation funding programme, due to start in 2028, saying the tense geopolitical situati … | Continue reading
In February and March 2024, to better support this new generation of science communicators, COST organised two dedicated workshops on ‘How to make the most of communication for your COST Action’. Photo credits: European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) Networking is goo … | Continue reading
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project, an international collaboration of more than 900 researchers from over 70 institutions around the world including EPFL, has released its first results – a map of galaxies and quasars with unprecedented detail, creating the largest … | Continue reading
As a founding member, the CSC – IT Center for Science joined the Data Spaces Alliance Finland cooperation network, which brings Finnish data business pioneers together and provides its members with a unified view to the development of cross-organizational solutions. The network c … | Continue reading
Cancer Research UK has awarded Imperial's Convergence Science Centre £8.9 million to train a new generation of clinician scientists. The funding will allow the joint Imperial/ICR Convergence Science Centre to train more doctors in the skills they need to undertake cancer research … | Continue reading
Robert Schoevers (right), principal investigator for the PsyPal project, speaking at the European Parliament on Tuesday 9 April. Photo credits: Simon Blackley Increasing awareness of mental health issues has not yet been translated into innovative treatments, MEPs heard on Tuesda … | Continue reading
U.S. president Joe Biden, his wife Jill Biden (right), Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and his wife Yuko Kishida (left) at the White House, April 10, 2024. Photo credits: U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Japan The AUKUS defence partnership between the US, UK and Australia has … | Continue reading
Tiemo Wölken, rapporteur for the regulation. Photo credit: Emilie Gomez / European Union MEPs adopted their position on the reform to EU pharmaceutical legislation in plenary on Wednesday, setting the stage for negotiations with member states, with Parliament confirming the file … | Continue reading
Bettina Stark-Watzinger, German federal minister for education and research at DLD Munich Conference 2022, May 2022. Photo credits: Hubert Burda Media / Flickr "We are experiencing a Zeitenwende [turning point] that is affecting many areas of our lives. The Russian war of aggress … | Continue reading
Bettina Stark-Watzinger, German federal minister for education and research at DLD Munich Conference 2022, May 2022. Photo credits: Hubert Burda Media / Flickr "We are experiencing a Zeitenwende [turning point] that is affecting many areas of our lives. The Russian war of aggress … | Continue reading
Photo credits: weyo / BigStock The impact of the UK’s long absence from Horizon Europe is still playing out despite the association deal struck last September, with UK-based European Research Council (ERC) grant winners unable to take them up unless they leave the country. Today … | Continue reading
Europe needs a better way to measure its prosperity and societal wellbeing– and universities have a key role to play in developing and promoting the new, sustainability-conscious metrics that are needed. That was the view of speakers at an Erasmus University Rotterdam conference … | Continue reading
The latest news HUNGARY’S BIOECONOMY PLOT: You heard it here first: Hungary wants a new EU initiative to support the bioeconomy of central and eastern Europe and is angling for a partnership similar to PRIMA, the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area, … | Continue reading
Meeting between EIB president Nadia Calviño (right centre) and Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa (left centre) to announce the opening of a new EIB office in Riga. Photo: Valsta Kanceleja / State Chancellery The European Investment Bank (EIB) is strengthening its presence in th … | Continue reading
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RCC's senior expert on human capital development Sinisa Marcic at the opening of the Second Butterfly Innovation & Business Forum on 6-7 December 2022 in Sarajevo. Photo credits: Armin Durgut / RCC The Western Balkan region has the potential to be a significant player in the Euro … | Continue reading
The National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) has announced the next Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) call for proposals on European Battery Innovation (EuBatIn) under the European Funds for a Modern Economy Programme for 2021-2027 co-funded by the … | Continue reading
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose government has been behind reforms that led to the EU unfreezing frozen funds, shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Photo: Christophe Licoppe / European Union The unfreezing of up to €137 billion in EU fund … | Continue reading
Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk, vice president of the Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology, speaking at a Ministry of Science and Higher Education seminar in March 20, 2018. Source: Krajowy Punkt Kontaktowy Programów Badawczych Unii Europejskiej (@KPK_PL) / X The unfreezing … | Continue reading
Photo credits: chughes / BigStock A survey of more than 700 universities worldwide has found that geopolitical tensions have cut global research links in Europe and North America far more dramatically than in other areas of the world. More than half of universities in Europe or N … | Continue reading
Europe’s largest university lobby group is calling on the Commission to conduct a “thorough revision” of research translation and commercialisation in pillar 3 of the next research programme FP10, and to “strengthen alignment” between the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the … | Continue reading
Sweden is heavily dependent on collaborations with the outside world for development and prosperity. Three authorities are now submitting proposals for how internationalisation within research, innovation and education can take place while protecting Sweden's national interests. … | Continue reading
The University of Twente is developing a plan together with institutions in scientific and vocational education in the Groningen, Delft, Eindhoven and Twente regions to educate more technical talent. This is needed to strengthen and preserve the Netherlands' chip sector. The cabi … | Continue reading