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
What is the link between particle physics, the study of biodiversity and historical linguistics? The thirst for knowledge? Yes, but also the tool researchers are using to store all their findings and make them available to their peers: Zenodo. For more than ten years, this CERN-b … | 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
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, Europe’s premier Technology Platform representing the … | Continue reading
Science|Business, a Brussels-based media company focused on R&D policy and investment, is expanding its news team with the addition of a new journalist to help with our daily coverage of Horizon Europe and EU research and innovation policy. This full-time position is for an enthu … | Continue reading
There is a worrying new trend in academia, of scientists saying they want to scale back their research to reduce carbon emissions. True, the pressure to adhere to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles is increasing in all parts of our societies, and research and s … | Continue reading
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Brussels for a meeting of the Council of the European Union in December 2023. Photo: European Union The European Parliament has overwhelmingly rejected a bid by a small group of MEPs to remove a ban on certain Hungarian universities access … | Continue reading
Research commissioner Iliana Ivanova speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Photo: World Economic Forum / Flickr Research commissioner Iliana Ivanova has warned that while the European Innovation Council (EIC) has made a good start, it will not be near … | Continue reading
Last year was the second in which the EU’s €95 billion Horizon Europe research and innovation programme was fully up and running - and with a new year, comes a chance to see how 2023 shook out. Science|Business has trawled through the European Commission’s data to see which count … | Continue reading
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets with Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, in Beijing in 2022. Photo: Federal Government/Imo Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Starting today, Science|Business is partnering with Table.Media, a leading source of … | Continue reading
The European Space Agency's logo can be seen on the forward-end of the International Space Station (ISS). Photo: NASA Johnson Flickr The European Space Agency will sign contracts with industry in May 2024 for the development of a vehicle to take cargo to the International Space S … | Continue reading
A new Imperial spinout company will use generative AI to help companies design higher performing materials for applications such as batteries. Polaron has been launched by a team from Imperial’s Dyson School of Design Engineering to develop generative machine learning algorithms … | Continue reading
The lending package is part of a $5 billion non-recourse project financing, the biggest green debt deal in Europe to date, and will support expansion of Europe’s first circular battery production gigafactory, Northvolt Ett, in Skellefteå, Sweden. The EIB financing is backed by th … | Continue reading
The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and ETH Zurich, in collaboration with their international partners, are launching the International Computation and AI Network (ICAIN) at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024 in Davos. Its mission is to develop AI technologies that … | Continue reading