Coventry University has been awarded a grant of almost £13million to help hit its target of being net zero by 2030. The grant from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, which is funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and delivered by Salix Finance Limited, … | Continue reading
Prof. dr. Joyeeta Gupta is appointed as a co-chair of the United Nations Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (10-Member Group). This g … | Continue reading
Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council. Photo: Jennifer Jacquemart / European Union Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council (ERC), has called on ERC grant holders to lobby politicians to double the research budget in the next Framework programm … | Continue reading
Biological image analysis needs vast storage and computing capacity. Researchers can now transfer their computing from Google cloud service to CSC’s free-of-charge environment using a new application. A similar approach can be adapted when switching from one supercomputing enviro … | Continue reading
The European Commission wants to launch a €500 million public-private partnership on advanced materials, as part of plans to boost Europe’s standing in the sector published on Tuesday. The EU would commit €250 million to the partnership between 2025 and 2027 to attract matching p … | Continue reading
“I went for a degree in electronic engineering, which was kind of strange (for women) at that time, we were probably 1% of students, at that time there were no toilets for women”, told Rector of Politecnico di Milano Donatella Sciuto, the first woman to lead the university. Find … | Continue reading
Four years with the European Commission’s AI strategy, ‘AI made in Europe’, was launched as a cornerstone of Europe’s drive to strengthen Europe’s technology sovereignty. The strategy did not achieve what we hoped, and the distance to Europe’s competitors has only increased. … | Continue reading
L. to r.: Tor Grande, Acting Rector, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Maud Cohen, President, Polytechnique Montréal. Polytechnique Montréal and the public teaching and research institution NTNU (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, or Norwegian Uni … | Continue reading
Robert Habeck, Vice-Chancellor, Government of Germany Germany’s economy ministry has unveiled a long-term vision for carbon capture, storage and use, opening the way for captured CO2 to be stored underground or used in another industry. A separate bill will amend the CO2 storage … | Continue reading
The UK and Canada have agreed on a joint research programme to tackle one of the toughest problems facing the nuclear fusion industry – how to produce and process tritium, the incredibly rare hydrogen isotope needed to power future nuclear fusion plants. Attracted by the promise … | Continue reading
Investment in research to tackle poverty-related and neglected diseases – such as TB and malaria – has fallen since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Andrew Tuttle, chief strategy officer of Policy Cures Research. After rising steadily, annual investment in such research began … | Continue reading
Nadia Calviño Santamaría, President of the EIB. Photo: European Union The European Investment Bank (EIB) is “ready to do more and better” to contribute to joint projects which boost the European defence industry, its president Nadia Calviño said after an informal EU Council meeti … | Continue reading
Patents remain an important way for research-intensive universities to exploit their work, but the commercialisation scene is changing. Direct licensing to large companies appears to be in decline, with universities increasingly expected to develop technologies to higher levels o … | Continue reading
Ukrainian higher education institutions and their communities continue to be profoundly affected by the ongoing hostilities marked, on 24 February 2024, by the two-year anniversary of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. On this occasion, the European University Associat … | Continue reading
Imperial's President, Professor Hugh Brady, attended a networking event for alumni to celebrate Imperial's vital ties with Malaysia. Earlier this month, a delegation from Imperial, including President Professor Hugh Brady, travelled to Malaysia to celebrate Imperial’s collaborati … | Continue reading
On 23 February 2024, a brand-new data centre was inaugurated on CERN’s Prévessin site (France), marking the completion of a major project for the Organization’s computing strategy. Spanning more than 6000 square metres and including six rooms for IT equipment with a cooling capac … | Continue reading
Two researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been awarded grants from the PolyBio Research Foundation totalling USD 1.85 million dollars (SEK 19 million) for research into long COVID. It is hoped that the studies will provide valuable insights that can promote the development of … | Continue reading
The 10-Member Group forms part of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM), which is designed to harness multi-stakeholder collaboration for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Karen Scrivener, head of the Construction Materials Laboratory in … | Continue reading
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Copilot designer prompted by Science|Business The European Commission has set up an AI office to enforce new rules on artificial intelligence systems and support innovation in AI. The Commission announced it would establish the office in January, as part of a package of measures … | Continue reading
NTNU has been entrusted by the STOA of the European Parliament to spearhead a groundbreaking study aimed at elucidating the pivotal role of a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) in the water, marine, and maritime sectors and ecosystems. This initiative seeks to explore how s … | Continue reading
Sylvie Retailleau, France's Minister of Higher Education and Research. Photo: European Union France’s research minister Sylvie Retailleau is joining a growing chorus of politicians asking for an ironclad commitment from EU member states that the next framework research programme, … | 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. The introduction of lump sum funding to the … | Continue reading
EIT director Martin Kern speaking at the 2024 EIT Summit in Brussels this week. Photo: EIT / Flickr The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) has developed a “very specific model” which is bearing fruit, its director Martin Kern told Science|Business after questions … | Continue reading
William Burns, a consultant in science and research policy at Science Think Tank In my view, the Horizon Europe Missions will fail because their designers were carried along by rhetoric and never really took the right lessons from past experience. These include the need for backi … | Continue reading
A major upgrade to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) has equipped scientists with innovative tools to address health issues, environmental problems, energy demands and other global challenges, according to speakers at the Science|Business Annual Conference. Havin … | Continue reading
Chinese president Xi Jinping (Left) with Russian president Vladimir Putin meeting in Russia in 2023. Photo: Presidential Executive Office of Russia / Wikimedia Commons China has become Russia’s biggest scientific collaborator following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, largely becaus … | Continue reading
Photo: Imperial College London website. An instrument built by Imperial physicists is on its way to be fitted onto NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft. The Imperial-built instrument, called MAG, will play a key role in helping IMAP study the solar … | Continue reading
When it comes to sustainable development, the construction industry faces great challenges. In the ReMatBuilt project, experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut, WKI and their partners are proving that the tasks associated with this can be … | Continue reading
On Monday 26 February 2024, in Belval, the Rector of the University of Luxembourg, Prof. Dr Jens Kreisel, and the Representative of the European Commission in Luxembourg, Anne Calteux, will sign the Agreement on the funding for 2024 of the “Europe Direct at the University of Luxe … | Continue reading
On 13 February the National Centre for Research and Development signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Innosuisse – Swiss Innovation Agency on cooperation in the Applied Research Programme under the Second Swiss Contribution to Poland. The programme aims to improve the quali … | Continue reading
Latest news WIDENING MEASURES ARE POWERFUL TOOL: With growing calls for reform of Widening measures, soon-to-be Bulgarian prime minister and former European research commissioner Mariya Gabriel has spoken out in their favour. She told the Science|Business annual conference - cele … | Continue reading
The felling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of German reunification, but decades of Communist rule left a mark on the eastern regions' innovation performance that still affects them today. Photo: Flickr The negative impact on innovation ecosystems in former East G … | Continue reading
Central and eastern Europe’s technology start-up scene can become “Nordic-like”, with companies having global reach and highly innovative products, according to Alexandru Agatinei, CEO of How to Web, a leading technology conference in Romania. Agatinei is highly optimistic about … | Continue reading
Soon-to-be Bulgarian prime minister and former EU research commissioner Mariya Gabriel. Photo: Aurore Martignoni / European Union Bulgaria’s soon-to-be prime minister and former European research commissioner Mariya Gabriel has spoken in favour of Horizon Europe’s Widening measur … | Continue reading
A new fund has been launched to invest in companies founded by Imperial students, staff and alumni. Imperial has launched a new round of the Imperial College Enterprise Fund (ICEF), which is raising funds from investors to support spinouts and startups with a strong connection to … | Continue reading
Navigating the UK’s artificial intelligence research and innovation ecosystem becomes easier with new interactive digital map by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). WAIFinder, a new interactive digital map, has been developed and led by UKRI with support from Nesta, the innovation … | Continue reading
On 15 February, the Faculty of Geosciences of Utrecht University and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education signed a Memorandum of Understanding. This document endorses the desire of the two institutes to cooperate more with each other in education and research. Utrecht Universi … | Continue reading
While patents remain an important part of the technology transfer landscape, other options are increasingly being explored to extract value from academic knowledge. This is embracing the social sciences, arts and humanities, and includes devising processes to automate high-volume … | Continue reading
UK’s artificial intelligence minister Jonathan Berry. Photo: UK Parliament The UK’s artificial intelligence minister has offered to work with the EU on regulation, and said that London would likely take an approach to copyright in AI that was “reasonably close” to Brussels. Jona … | Continue reading
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is involved in the Cluster of Excellence "BlueMat: Water-Driven Materials", with which Hamburg University of Technology (TUUH) is applying in the nationwide competition as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German … | Continue reading
Researcher Natalja Buhhalko from TalTech Department of Marine Systems visited Iceland to implement activities of ImproveMicro project. A kick-off meeting was organised together with partners from Latvia, Finland and Iceland. The aim of the project is to improve research performan … | Continue reading
Germany’s science minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger speaking at this year's Munich Security Conference on 16 February. Photo: Screenshot / MSC Germany’s science minister has called for a rethink of the country’s traditional separation between civilian and military research during … | Continue reading