Imperial has opened its first overseas research and innovation centre in Singapore to strengthen collaboration between the UK and Singapore. Imperial Global: Singapore will see Imperial’s scientists working closely with university, industry, government, and third-sector partners … | Continue reading
RDA Europe is looking to hire four more members of staff to work on our project portfolio and support the growth of the organisation. We are seeking two communications professionals and two Research Data community experts to join us as soon as possible. The vacancies close at the … | Continue reading
Christian Ehler MEP. Photo: Eric Vidal / European Union The pressure for EU legislation to protect academic freedom ramped up in November when the European Parliament’s STOA panel for the future of science and technology set out its plan of action. Amongst other measures, STOA … | Continue reading
OpenAI launched a free version of its chatbot, ChatGPT, in December 2022, resulting in a huge public boom in the use of large language models The EU should assemble its best computer scientists and give them billions of euros to build a European AI system, to avoid becoming depen … | Continue reading
Impact investing with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact - alongside a financial return - has never been more relevant. As the effects of climate change on societies become increasingly clear, issues such as sustainability continue to g … | Continue reading
The EU’s biggest private spenders on research and development significantly increased their investment in 2022, but the overall amount remains far short of that invested by Chinese and US companies. The latest EU Industrial Research & Development Investment Scoreboard, shows that … | Continue reading
Insolight’s agrivoltaic system replaces protective netting over crops such as raspberries, growing here at Conthey in Switzerland. Photo: Insolight Combining the production of food with the generation of electricity - by installing photovoltaic panels amongst or over crop plants … | Continue reading
After a generally awful year of conflict and war in 2023, I’d like to draw your attention to a small ray of hope for a peaceful New Year: the emergence of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme as an extraordinary engine of global scientific cooperation. Consider: late last year, Cana … | Continue reading
UKBIC has secured funding to upgrade the facility to support innovation projects for high-tech developers and users of battery technologies. Enhancing scale-up capability The new funding for the national battery manufacturing scale-up facility will enhance its offering to custome … | Continue reading
Nadia Calviño took over as president of the European Investment Bank on 1 January, replacing Werner Hoyer. The eighth president of the EU bank, Calviño is the first woman to lead the institution. She is also the first Spaniard to head the Bank. President Calviño was previously fi … | Continue reading
Novo Nordisk, Omega Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMGA) (“Omega”) and Cellarity Inc. today announced that Novo Nordisk has entered into separate research collaborations with each company. The Omega collaboration will leverage its proprietary platform technology to develop an epigen … | Continue reading
The two key fields to be supported under the second edition of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme (SPPW) are the development of urban areas and scientific cooperation. The Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy and the Association of Polish Cities have officially i … | Continue reading
The new European supercomputer MareNostrum 5, one of the most complete and versatile machines in the world at the service of the scientific community and the only one with two systems on the list of the 20 most powerful supercomputers on the planet, was inaugurated today at the B … | Continue reading
Held in September, the event featured a total of 48 projects, which presented their goals and results on stage, and in an exhibition and demonstration area to network and delve deeper into their work. All presentations are publicly available from the ‘Documents’ section of the we … | Continue reading
2023 has been perhaps one of the most interesting and intense years in European and international research and innovation policy. The world is grappling with the medium-term economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, growing conc … | Continue reading
French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: Robert Redeker / Flickr The French research world is to undergo a “revolution” in the next 18 months in a bid to make it more competitive on the global stage. The creation of a presidential science council will put science “at the heart of … | Continue reading
New centre will see Imperial and Tata Steel partner to develop innovative new manufacturing processes to help decarbonise steel production. The Centre for Innovation in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, a partnership between Imperial College London and the multinational steel … | Continue reading
Professor Steve Fletcher has been appointed by NERC, working closely with Innovate UK, to develop a transformative plastic pollution research framework. Steve Fletcher is Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy and Director of the Revolution Plastics Institute at the University of … | Continue reading
RIKEN has been selected, in partnership with SoftBank Corp. to carry out a project for the "Research and Development of quantum-supercomputers hybrid platform for exploration of uncharted computable capabilities" as part of the Research and Development Project of the Enhanced Inf … | Continue reading
On 6 December, the European Commission published the names of the experts appointed to its newly established working groups on science diplomacy. Maja Fjaestad, expert coordinator at the Centre for Health Emergencies and affiliated to research at the Department of Learning, Infor … | Continue reading
Professor Annelien Bredenoord, Rector Magnificus of Erasmus University Rotterdam, has been appointed as a member of the High-Level Expert Group for the Interim Evaluation of Horizon Europe, the European Union's flagship research and innovation program. The group, officially launc … | Continue reading
Based on RISC-V open hardware technology, the new processor is an important advance to achieve European technological sovereignty and reducing dependence on large multinational corporations The BSC, Europe's leading developer of open source computing technologies, is committed to … | Continue reading
The Organization’s cooperation with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus will conclude at the expiry in 2024 of the International Cooperation Agreements (ICAs) Following a decision taken by the CERN Council today, the Organization’s cooperation with the Russian Fede … | Continue reading
As the year draws to a close and 2024 comes into view, we’re here to brief you on the preparations underway to shape Framework Programme 10 (FP10). FP10 doesn’t start until 2028, but 2024 is going to be a big year for the next seven-year research programme, with the European Comm … | Continue reading
Robots struggle to handle flexible materials. The lack of rigidity introduces handling uncertainties that mean conventional automation systems are unable to control deformation within the required accuracy and repeatability standards. As a result, key industrial sectors, such as … | Continue reading
The EU and Switzerland have made further progress in talks about their relationship, opening the door for Swiss academics to apply for European Research Council (ERC) grants from next year. On 15 December, Switzerland’s ruling Federal Council signed off a draft negotiating mandat … | Continue reading
The European Research Council (ERC) has fired a shot across the bows of applicants, warning them to maintain academic integrity if they use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to write research proposals. In a position statement, the ERC Scientific Council said it “recognises” man … | Continue reading
VERITY maps the collaborative landscape of citizens and stakeholders, creating an ecosystem of trust: government bodies, educational institutions, social media platforms and influencers all have a key role to play as stewards of trust, influencing how society embraces scientific … | Continue reading
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has opposed a €50 billion financial package for Ukraine, holding up a wider agreement on the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework. Photo: European Union EU leaders failed to reach a deal on a seven-year budget review despite late-night negoti … | Continue reading
Mattias Björnmalm, secretary general of university association Cesaer As the EU faces mounting pressures and looks across its funding schemes to help address them, it is vital that the next framework programme is not pulled in different directions, but instead remains focussed wh … | Continue reading
STOA chair Christian Ehler MEP. Photo: Eric Vidal / European Union The European Parliament’s scientific advice panel is to update its transparency rules, following a heated debate in which MEPs accused the panel’s administration of overstepping its powers by withdrawing an indepe … | Continue reading
When 2024 comes around, researchers in the UK will be able to apply to Horizon Europe on equal terms with their EU counterparts, after association to the research and innovation programme brings an end to three years of limbo. But the question is: what now? For MPs who grilled th … | Continue reading
Michiel Scheffer, president of the board of the European Innovation Council. Photo: Lukasz Kobus / European Union The European Innovation Council work programme for 2024 will see changes to the EU’s start-up fund, as its budget shrinks from €1.6 billion to €1.2 billion. Changes … | Continue reading
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is delighted to announce that it has been selected as an open infrastructure to be included in the SCOSS 5th funding cycle. The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is a network of influential organisations committed t … | Continue reading
The Swedish Research Council has awarded project grants for international collaborations in rare diseases (EJP RD). Of the seven researchers awarded grants, four are researchers at Karolinska Institutet. In total, the Swedish Research Council grants just over SEK 20 million for i … | Continue reading
Imperial is launching a new research centre to find ways to make the UK economy more productive and competitive. The Centre for Sectoral Economic Performance is funded by nearly £29million over a 10-year period in philanthropic support from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, foun … | Continue reading
Strengthening Switzerland as a leading international location for innovation is essential for our country's future competitiveness. This is where present and future young enterprises play a central role. In particular, start-ups in the polytechnic sector are important drivers of … | Continue reading
The company will utilise the funds to scale up their local production of carbon materials and graphite derived from CO2 emissions, offering a sustainable alternative source of raw materials to European battery manufacturers. UP Catalyst a pioneer in sustainable carbon material pr … | Continue reading
Panel discussion at the 'CHIPS meets Chips: Transatlantic cooperation in semiconductor research' event in Brussels. From left to right: Alessandro Curioni, vice president of IBM Europe and Africa; Riccardo Masucci, director of security and technology policy at Intel; Arco Krijgsm … | Continue reading
The EIB has signed an €18 million venture debt deal with Belgian biotech company Novadip funding innovation on its therapies for rare bone-related genetic diseases. Novadip will further develop its unique bone tissue regeneration platform to create new solutions for patients with … | Continue reading
TU/e, ASML, ASM, the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association, the Korea Institute For Advancement of Technology and Brainport Development today signed a Support Letter aimed at setting up the Eindhoven - South Korea Future Chips Academy, organized by TU/e. The signing took place … | Continue reading
Two team members of Estonian company BiotaTec, which is pioneering new biomining technologies to extract critical materials from low-grade ores and wastes Estonia might be a ‘micronation’ of around 1.3 million people, but in common with the rest of Europe it has unexploited natur … | Continue reading
A new partnership between the Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC) and the European Innovation Council (EIC) is aiming to give a boost to start-ups and entrepreneurs in a region that to date has had limited success in winning EIC grants. For the EIC, the p … | Continue reading
Like many research support staff across the country, Antoaneta Folea, coordinator of the Horizon Europe National Contact Point unit at Romania’s main research funding agency (UEFISCDI), has been caught up in a whirlwind of effort aimed at improving the countries success rate in t … | Continue reading
The SPEARHydro team testing their prototype on the Danube. SynergistEIC aims to help them and other widening start-ups to success in the EIC Accelerator With very few start-ups from Widening countries winning funds from the lucrative European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator, … | Continue reading
NATO deputy secretary general Mircea Geoană (Left) and former UK minister of state in the Ministry of Defence Alex Chalk opening the European regional office of NATO’s defence innovation accelerator DIANA at the Imperial College London Innovation Hub. Photo: NATO / Flickr NATO’s … | Continue reading
Willy Borsus, research and innovation minister of Belgium’s Walloon Government (Left), exchanges gifts with Spanish science minister Diana Morant Ripoll as Spain passes over the presidency of the Council to Belgium. Photo: European Union Technology sovereignty, international coop … | Continue reading
Michelle Steel, the US politician behind the DETERRENT Act – an acronym for 'Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions'. Photo: Screenshot / Rep. Michelle Steel / Youtube As part of a broader push to tighten security, science fun … | Continue reading