Irina Kupiainen, public affairs director at CSC - IT Center for Science and Kimmo Koski, managing director at CSC - IT Center for Science. Digital technologies have advanced more rapidly than any innovation in our history – reaching about half of the developing world's population … | Continue reading
The European Innovation Council (EIC) will put €675 million into promising start-ups this year to support Europe’s technology sovereignty policy. The budget is smaller than previous years, as EU recovery money runs out, but the ambition to cook up the next generation of European … | Continue reading
EU leaders meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to discuss an aid package for Ukraine, which Orbán had vetoed in December. Photo: European Union Horizon Europe will have its €95.5 billion budget cut by €2.1 billion, with €1.5 billion diverted to defence research, follo … | Continue reading
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo: Dati Bendo / European Union From the middle of this year, Canada will be associated to Horizon Europe, the EU’s €95 billion research and innovation programme. It will be the sec … | Continue reading
President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Italy-Africa summit in Rome. Photo: Christophe Licoppe / European Union Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Science|Business has partnered with Table … | Continue reading
The EU’s ‘Grand challenge’ research missions have a long way to go to pull in public and private resources and deliver on their objectives, according to a report by a Commission expert group published on Friday. The report comes at a time when member states and research stakehol … | Continue reading
José Luis Martíne, chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. Photo: ESFRI Time and investment are the key to making Europe’s research infrastructures greener, more sustainable and more resilient to fluctuating energy prices, says the new chair of the Europ … | Continue reading
The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) celebrated its 40th anniversary in the sunshine last September and with its contributors this January. Back in the 1980s, a group of CERN scientists and engineers saw the need for an educational training programme in the rapidly evolving field of … | Continue reading
Together with the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Meru University of Science and Technology in Kenya, BAM is researching the use of bio-based and recycled raw materials in the building materials sector. The aim is to bring climate-friendly building materials and bui … | Continue reading
The University of Twente and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) have set out their joint ambitions in a collaboration agreement. The agreement was signed earlier this week. In the coming period, they intend to cooperate more frequently on various ini … | Continue reading
Professor Orlando Rojas is leading a research collaboration on material science and fiber processing with Japan’s Murata Manufacturing Company, a global leading manufacturer of electronics and advanced materials. ‘We work to uncover solutions from nature and to fulfill many of ou … | Continue reading
An investigation suggests that government funding for research and innovation is concentrated in significantly fewer authorities than today. Vinnova supports that a reorganization is implemented, but believes that the investigation's alternative proposal should be implemented ins … | Continue reading
With some reservations, Horizon 2020 was a success, according to the final evaluation of the programme. Research leaders tell Science|Business this should be seen as an incentive to make the 2028 – 2034 Framework Programme 10 bigger and better. The €75.6 billion Horizon 2020 is … | Continue reading
The €75.6 billion Horizon 2020 framework research programme that ran from 2014 - 2020 had a huge impact on the European economy, its scientific output, and on society, but was short on budget, needed simplification and should have included better support for women researchers and … | Continue reading
The head of one of Germany’s biggest research networks wants to replace Horizon Europe’s missions with pan-EU projects to create a world leading solar industry, and medically or climate focused AI models. Otmar Wiestler, president of the Helmholtz Association, set out his priorit … | Continue reading
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, welcomed the announcement that the United Kingdom would make an investment of up to R1 billion over the next two years in a new International Science Partnerships Fund for science and technology collabor … | Continue reading
A UK consortium led by Imperial physicists has signed an agreement with Fermilab in the US to build a 100-meter-long quantum experiment. The Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor (MAGIS-100) experiment is currently under construction at the US Department of Energy … | Continue reading
Amid calls for nation-states to conduct risk assessments of critical technologies, Photonics21 President Dr Lutz Aschke says photonics will be crucial for protecting Europe's economic and technological interests. Photonics21 has expressed its support for the European Commission's … | Continue reading
Two years ago, Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine. One direct consequence of the conflict is the destruction of buildings and infrastructure. Now an exhibition in the ETH Main Building entitled “ETH with Ukraine” is showing how buildings, facilities and the env … | Continue reading
The Extended Academic Senate of TU Berlin elected two vice presidents in its session on 24 January 2024. The regular term of office of the second and third vice presidents ends on 31 March 2024. The term of office is two years. Christian Schröder was re-elected for a second term … | Continue reading
X-ray-guided magnetic fields to move capsules in the body in a controlled way... Breast cancer diagnosis based on AI... Continuous glucose monitoring in the ICU... For the tenth time, the Pioneers in HealthCare vouchers have been awarded. Pioneers in HealthCare (PIHC) is a colla … | Continue reading
Martin Vende, academy director at EIT Urban Mobility, speaking at the EIT EdTech Conference this January. Photo: EIT Urban Mobility The ever-growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in education is raising crucial questions about the risks and benefits for higher e … | Continue reading
The European Commission has unveiled a plan to create ‘AI factories’ across the bloc to give artificial intelligence start-ups access to supercomputers on which to build their own models, rather than relying on those created by US tech giants. However, there are questions over w … | Continue reading
Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, the seat of the Danish Parliament Denmark wants the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) to be “discontinued” in the EU’s next framework programme for research and innovation (FP10), according to a government position paper seen … | Continue reading
Latest news PORTUGAL AND WIDENING BELONG TOGETHER: Portugal’s future involvement in the Widening programme is essential for the long-term development of its research and innovation ecosystem, says Eugénio Campos Ferreira, vice rector for research and innovation at the University … | Continue reading
European companies collaborate with Chinese firms and file joint patents for their developments. Especially in telecommunications, information technology, and electronics, such co-patents exist, as revealed by a recent study of the EU project Reconnect China. This programme aims … | Continue reading
European Commissioner for research and innovation, Iliana Ivanova, speaking to the European Parliament's ITRE committee this week. Photo: Alexis Haulot / European Union Horizon 2020 would have needed an additional €159 billion to fund all high quality proposals, the European Comm … | Continue reading
Photo: EIT Health Facebook page, EIT Health has recently renewed its strategic alliance partnership with The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) PIE Initiative which is a platform designed to bring together strategic partners/associates with the common g … | Continue reading
This month we’re celebrating 40 years of funding telecoms research networks and the enduring success and connections made in this series of eight COST Actions in mobile and wireless communications. The story starts back in 1984 when the 207, first COST Action in this field, kicke … | Continue reading
Inter-institutional knowledge sharing and information exchange aims at reducing bottlenecks and improving access to finance for European space companies The European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed today at the Space … | Continue reading
European commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, speaking at the European Space Conference in Brussels. Photo: European Space Conference Europe is facing an “unprecedented crisis” having lost its independent access to space, commissioner for the internal market Thie … | Continue reading
Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and data analytics, today launches Scopus AI – a generative AI product to help researchers and research institutions get fast and accurate summaries and research insights that support collaboration and societal impact. Scopus AI … | Continue reading
The European Commission has proposed a series of new measures to bolster research security in response to fears that critical technologies and knowhow could be leaking to geopolitical rivals. Rather than hard rules, the proposals are a series of recommendations to be implemented … | Continue reading
The European Commission is proposing to allow technologies with both civil and defence applications to be funded in Framework Programme 10 (FP10), in order to boost the EU’s strategic autonomy. This is one of three possibilities for boosting dual-use research featured in a white … | Continue reading
Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov (Centre) speaking at the World Economic Forum alongside European Research Council President Maria Leptin (Left) and panel host Luciana Lixandru (Right). Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr Europe is lagging behind global competitors in inn … | Continue reading
Public scepticism in science - and in particular medical science - is on the rise and is being fuelled by disinformation, according Dariusz Jemielniak, a specialist in networked and digital societies. This issue is not being addressed seriously enough by public bodies around the … | Continue reading
Eugénio Campos Ferreira, vice rector for research and innovation at the University of Minho in Portugal Portugal must remain eligible for Widening measures under the EU’s next framework programme or there is a risk of losing momentum and hampering the country’s long-term progress … | Continue reading
Three leading member states have formed a political alliance to push for better coordination between national plans and investment in artificial intelligence with EU policies relating to the sector. Germany, France and Poland say member states will need to work more closely toge … | Continue reading
Jean-Lin Lacapelle MEP, who sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Photo: Genevieve Engel / European Union Two parliamentary committees have voted through a motion condemning the European Commission for not giving MEPs “meaningful consent” over a raft of … | Continue reading
Věra Jourová, vice-president of the European Commission in charge of values and transparency, speaking at a press conference in December 2023 about the Defence of Democracy package. Photo: Valentine Zeler / European Union Proposed rules to combat foreign influence operations in t … | Continue reading
The Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. Photo: Richard Parmiter / Flickr From 2024, start-ups will no longer be able to bid for grant-first funding under the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme. Instead, this option wi … | Continue reading
Thomas Lippert, head of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). Photo: Sascha Kreklau / Forschungszentrum Jülich Europe’s first exascale supercomputer could be up and running up to 100 projects by the second half of this year, allowing researchers to develop increasingly complex … | Continue reading
The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, will meet with the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward, this evening. The engagement shows the deepening partnership between South Africa and the United Kingdom in the field of science and innovation. The D … | Continue reading
The University’s space research ecosystem welcomed Prof. Carole Mundell, Scientific Director of the European Space Agency (ESA), on Thursday 18 January. The astrophysicist, who took up her position in March 2023, discovered various research projects currently led by scientists an … | Continue reading
A large consortium led by Utrecht University has been awarded a 5 million euro Horizon Europe grant. The partners will develop an assessment framework to map the impact of sustainability and climate change education. The number of initiatives in this field has grown enormously, b … | Continue reading
Over the next three and a half years, the AI4Lungs project will develop AI tools and computational models to optimise patient categorisation, improving diagnoses and treatments. In this sense, the researchers will integrate medical data, images and innovative inputs from digital … | Continue reading