On 16 January, Ed Brinksma officially opened the Immersive Tech Space, as part of the Erasmus Data Collaboratory, at Erasmus University Rotterdam Woudestein campus. The immersive Tech Space brings together EUR academics, students, support staff, and practitioners from industry an … | Continue reading
Estonian Ministry of Education and Research allocated 7 million euros to distribute over seven years for both the Centre of Excellence for Energy Efficiency, led by Professor and academician Jarek Kurnitski of the University of Technology, and the Centre of Excellence for Strateg … | Continue reading
François-Philippe Champagne, Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. Photo: Collision Conf / Flickr With geopolitical tensions mounting, the Canadian government announced a new security system for university research that aims to prevent tech secrets leaking to key … | Continue reading
The Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa, UK. Photo: WSP The sale of a vast COVID-19 testing lab in the UK is an opportunity to develop the start-up ecosystem in the Midlands region. But what form of repurposing would serve the region best: a general life sciences hub, … | Continue reading
Christian Ehler MEP, rapporteur on the Net-Zero Industry Act. Photo: Michel Christen / European Union The European Parliament is gearing up for the second round of negotiations on the EU’s plan to support domestic manufacturing of green technologies, with the next rounds of negot … | Continue reading
Belgium’s prime minister Alexander de Croo. Photo: European Union The EU should “switch to a higher gear” to remain an “innovative, creative, capital-rich and productive continent”, said Belgium’s prime minister Alexander de Croo in a speech at today’s plenary session in the Euro … | Continue reading
Digiaudit solution for buildings developed during a FinEst Centre for Smart Cities (at Tallinn University of Technology) pilot project calculates the energy efficiency class of the building based on the measured consumption once a month, considering the actual weather conditions. … | Continue reading
Paolo Canonico, global technical and R&D director at Saati. Photo: Saati Wide-scale disruption is ahead for the European textiles industry, with the wide-reaching Green Deal legislation threatening to undermine the sector’s viability, says Paolo Canonico, global technical and R&D … | Continue reading
On Thursday, 11 January, the University of Amsterdam celebrated its 392nd Dies Natalis. Rector Peter-Paul Verbeek addressed the importance of multilingualism at the university in his opening speech 'The Language of Science.' Professor of Oral Microbial Ecology Egija Zaura discuss … | Continue reading
The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) is investing a total of SEK 500 million in equipment and infrastructure at seven universities in Sweden. Stockholm University will receive SEK 136 million for four research platforms. The investment is the larg … | Continue reading
The fourth batch of Finnish research projects to utilize LUMI, Europe’s fastest supercomputer, have been chosen, and will run on the system using its massive GPU capacity. The projects are, for example, continuing the development of computational pathology tools, advancing multim … | Continue reading
The Israeli government, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Israeli Innovation Authority, announced today that it has approved a transformative stimulus package aimed at elevating Israel’s standing as a global high-tech hub. A result of exhaustive deliberations … | Continue reading
EIB Global equity investment of US$30 million in Seedstars Africa Ventures I supports risk capital for entrepreneurs across Africa, boosting growth and job creation. The fund will invest in companies leveraging digital technologies to provide essential services and increase effic … | Continue reading
Open cooperation has to remain Europe’s default option in international research collaboration, despite the current challenging geopolitical situation, according to the European University Association (EUA). “Universities are by nature internationally oriented institutions,” it s … | Continue reading
Thierry Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market. Photo: Gints Ivuskans / European Union The European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have launched the Defence Equity Facility (DEF), a €175 million fund to increase access to capital for small companies in the … | Continue reading
Inside ITER, the international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject in France. Photo: Flickr The former head of communications at ITER has warned that the fusion energy industry is engaging in risky and potentially deceptive hype over the technology, skirting over … | Continue reading
The EU is encouraging member states to band together to install shared digital infrastructures, with the creation of a new legal framework, European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDIC). Based on the existing European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERIC), EDICs are designe … | Continue reading
SiPearl founder and CEO Philippe Notton When Europe inaugurates its first exascale supercomputer later this year, the event will be a major step towards European sovereignty in computing. Unlike previous EU-backed supercomputers launched within the EuroHPC joint undertaking, the … | Continue reading
EU’s upcoming recommendations for tackling foreign interference in research must walk a fine line between protecting security and enabling international collaboration, research and technology organisations say. The recommendations should aim to raising awareness, provide addition … | Continue reading
Latest news TEN YEARS OF WIDENING: The Widening measures were brought in nearly a decade ago to try to close the EU’s east-west research and innovation gap. The data shows there has been some improvement, with Widening countries increasingly involved in Horizon Europe. But the re … | Continue reading
Imperial has appointed a renowned expert in organisation, management and information technology to lead its Business School. Professor Peter Todd has been confirmed as the new Dean, taking up the position from 1 September 2024, for a period of five years. He will succeed Professo … | Continue reading
New materials for energy acquisition and storage, nano-robots detecting or eliminating germs in the human body or substances accelerating and streamlining a number of chemical reactions in industrial production will be developed by a revolutionary method of single-atom engineerin … | Continue reading
CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) is led by a number of EU organizations with the aim of advancing how research is assessed in order to maximise its quality, transparency and impact. KI has now signed the agreement together with a number of other Swedish univers … | Continue reading
This year, Aalto University’s Metsähovi Radio Observatory will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The main radio telescope, when installed in the Metsähovi radio laboratory of Aalto University’s predecessor the Helsinki University of Technology, gave Finnish researchers access to la … | Continue reading
The 15 EU Widening countries under Horizon Europe This year marks a decade since the Widening participation and spreading excellence programme was first introduced to Horizon 2020 with the goal of improving the research and innovation ecosystems in the framework programme’s low-p … | Continue reading
Germany, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have put forward a series of proposals for the next European Commission to improve the EU’s digital landscape and make it more innovation friendly. In a paper published late last year, the countries argue the EU’s digital policy needs to be … | Continue reading
Mihnea Costoiu, rector of the National University for Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest. Photo: Universitatea Politehnica din București / Facebook When at the beginning of the current academic year rector Mihnea Costoiu stood in the middle of a sports hall and welcomed … | Continue reading
Photo: European Institute of Innovation and Technology / Flickr As start-ups that fled the war in Ukraine become increasingly integrated in their new home countries across Europe, attention is switching to supporting those that remained behind and to companies starting up despite … | Continue reading
In December 2023 Robert D. Atkinson made the case for orienting the next EU research programme, Framework Programme 10 (FP10) towards potential economic gains, saying the EU “needs to get back to economic basics”, it should back away from “misguided missions and bottom-up funding … | Continue reading
Open science policies are gathering pace, but further progress depends on wider culture change, improved monitoring and better policy support, UNESCO says. “The practice of open science is growing globally but unevenly,” according to a UNESCO’s report on the implementation of it … | Continue reading
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and are seen as potentially important in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Photo: ZEISS Microscopy / Flickr Bacteriophages that kill bacteria are potentially an important weapon in the fight against antimicrobial resistanc … | Continue reading
Tomislav Sokol MEP and Annalisa Tardino MEP, co-rapporteurs on establishing a European Health Data Space. Photo: Denis Lomme / European Union Finding a compromise on EU pharmaceuticals reform before June’s European elections may prove to be impossible, but there is still hope for … | Continue reading
The EU may have adopted a cohesive R&I strategy for artifical intelligence but participation and funding relating to Horizon Europe AI initiatives paint a geographically imbalanced picture, with disparities starkly evident in eastern member states. Germany, Italy and France rema … | Continue reading
President Cyril Ramaphosa has lauded the first Presidential Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Plenary as an important initiative to bring together government, academia, civil society and industry to collectively drive South Africa's national system of innovation (NSI). Ope … | Continue reading
The National Growth Fund programme Quantum Technology, carried out by NWO in collaboration with Quantum Delta NL, has awarded 19 projects with grants totaling 10.4 million euros. Two of the projects, ‘Quantum-enhanced sensing of quantum chemistry and interactions’ and ‘Computing … | Continue reading
The Executive Board has appointed Eric van der Geer-Rutten-Rijswijk as Secretary of the University, as of February 1, 2024. He succeeds Patrick Groothuis, who joined the Executive Board in November last year. Van der Geer, currently director of the TU/e Education and Student Aff … | Continue reading
‘As a researcher, I've found AMAD to be an invaluable tool for collaborating with others and for data processing in research projects,’ says Juha Koivisto, Research Fellow, Department of Applied Physics. Juha is not the only person who feels that the Aalto Materials Digitalisatio … | Continue reading
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