The Vanguard Initiative is a network created in 2013, gathering almost 40 industrialized regions determined to lead by example in fostering European innovation ecosystems through interregional collaboration in the framework of its eight Pilot projects. In line with their origin … | Continue reading
Spending on research and development in the EU increased by 6.34% in 2022, to reach €352 billion, new Eurostat data shows. But despite the increase, R&D intensity - the amount spent on R&D as a percentage of GDP - fell slightly, from 2.27% in 2021 to 2.22% in 2022. This could be … | Continue reading
The EU is a step closer to agreeing on a new policy framework for boosting its green manufacturing industries, with the member states and the European Parliament ready to start negotiations. The Parliament and the Council of member states have settled on their negotiating positi … | Continue reading
Panel discussion at a Science|Business conference on security. From left to right: Nicolas Bessot, head of unit for innovation and security research at the European Commission’s home affairs directorate; Mira Yossifova, director of politics and analysis at the Bulgarian Ministry … | Continue reading
Almost three years into Horizon Europe, KU Leuven is the top grant recipient among higher education institutions in the largest EU framework programme for research and innovation to date. Netting more than €170 million for 284 projects, the University currently takes the lead in … | Continue reading
The US has stretched out a hand to other countries to work together on fusion energy R&D, and create global standards to regulate the technology so it becomes easier to commercialise. Washington’s climate envoy John Kerry talked up fusion energy at the COP28 climate conference … | Continue reading
The GroenvermogenNL R&D consortium HyUSE has been granted a subsidy of over €14 million over the next six years for research developing the use of hydrogen in the transition to a more sustainable and low-carbon energy future in the Netherlands. Utrecht University is the scientifi … | Continue reading
Producing renewable fuel anywhere in the world, based on light and air? It can be done with the unique hydrogen technology developed at KU Leuven. This has been demonstrated extensively in recent years by integrating the technology into a hydrogen panel. Now that the innovation i … | Continue reading
Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living programme launches UK-wide package of funding and guidance to help accelerate net zero in regions and local communities. A £25 million package of support from innovation agency Innovate UK will help local authorities across the UK: tackle the barrier … | Continue reading
Robert D. Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington DC As an American who has been engaged in technology policy for over four decades, I want to thank the EU for its Framework R&D programmes. By focusing on basic research at univers … | Continue reading
Have you recently graduated? Last year, Eureka launched the Eureka traineeship programme, offering graduates the opportunity to continue their learning journey, while working as part of a talented, 40-strong international team right next to the Cinquantenaire Park. You’d be putti … | Continue reading
Have you recently graduated? Last year, Eureka launched the Eureka traineeship programme, offering graduates the opportunity to continue their learning journey, while working as part of a talented, 40-strong international team right next to the Cinquantenaire Park. You’d be putti … | Continue reading
Have you recently graduated? Last year, Eureka launched the Eureka traineeship programme, offering graduates the opportunity to continue their learning journey, while working as part of a talented, 40-strong international team right next to the Cinquantenaire Park. You’d be putti … | Continue reading
The Israel Innovation Authority and PLANETech, a joint initiative of the Israeli Innovation Institute and the Consensus Business Group of Vincent Cheng, published today the "Climate Technologies in Israel – 2023 Status Report". The report highlights Israel's significant potential … | Continue reading
The European Commission's expert adviser group for Framework Programme 10. Photo: European Union The European Commission has assembled an independent adviser group for the EU’s next research programme, officially kicking off the drafting process for Framework Programme 10. The g … | Continue reading
The next European framework programme for research and innovation – dubbed ‘FP10’ – will not be launched until 2028, but the European Commission has already set to work on its foundations. Results of the evaluation of H2020 and the mid-term evaluation of Horizon Europe will feed … | Continue reading
This week and next, world leaders, university heads and entrepreneurs are discussing planet-saving technologies from solar panels and methane tracking systems, to hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion, at the COP28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates. From an R&D point of … | Continue reading
South Korea’s Science Minister visited Imperial during the country’s UK state visit to strengthen scientific ties between the two countries. The visit came as the Governments of the UK and South Korea pledged to push collaboration between the two countries to new heights with a s … | Continue reading
On January 10, 2024, Sweden's next astronaut Marcus Wandt is scheduled to leave for the International Space Station (ISS). During his space journey, he will be a medical test subject and perform experiments on behalf of KTH. This gives Sweden another astronaut with strong links t … | Continue reading
EIT Health has been selected as the coordinator of the Skills Partnership for the European Health Industry, and in doing so, will collaborate closely with DG GROW and DG EMPL to bring about positive changes and boost skills development in the healthcare industry. Following commit … | Continue reading
The EU for Ukraine Fund managed by the EIB approves a €25 million investment in Ukraine’s equity growth fund, aimed at strengthening SMEs in Ukraine and Moldova. This funding primarily targets asset-light, human capital-rich, export-oriented technology companies, building on the … | Continue reading
Thierry Breton, EU internal market commissioner. Photo: Jennifer Jacquemart / European Union The EU opened a call for four pilot lines to allow companies to test new semiconductor designs, at the official launch of the Chips joint undertaking, which was set up to implement the Ch … | Continue reading
UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology Michelle Donelan (Left) with EU research cocmmissioner Iliana Ivanova in Brussels on December 4, 2023. Photo: Lukasz Kobus / European Union The UK and EU have officially signed off on UK association to Horizon Europe, e … | Continue reading
Spain currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. Photo: European Union The Spanish presidency has proposed shaving as much as €5.3 billion off Horizon Europe to finance skyrocketing EU recovery fund interest rates, according to a leaked proposal … | Continue reading
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking during an EU-Canada summit in November 2023. Photo: European Union. Scientists in Canada and Europe are gearing up for the country’s association to Horizon Europe next year after it was announced last week by president Justin Trude … | Continue reading
From left to right: Sabine Döring, state secretary of Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research; Christian Ehler, MEP and STOA chair; Ivars Ījabs, MEP and STOA vice-chair; Anna Panagopoulou, director of ERA and innovation at the European Commission’s Directorate Gener … | Continue reading
Draft legislation in Australia could “immediately jeopardise” collaborative research with countries outside the US and UK, including the EU, the country’s universities have warned. Earlier this month, Australia’s Department of Defence unveiled a draft amendment to the existing De … | Continue reading
Start-ups need more help in accessing EU funding and support in expanding across the bloc if Europe is to compete with other global superpowers, the EU’s largest start-up association said as it launched its manifesto for the 2024 European elections. Over the past five years Europ … | Continue reading
AI startup Fetch.ai has joined I-X Business Partners, the corporate membership programme of Imperial’s flagship initiative in artificial intelligence. Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based AI company founded in 2018, is offering a technology platform to help businesses create and deploy ne … | Continue reading
The University of Warwick has been awarded millions of pounds to boost British production of crucial materials for electric car batteries. The £12 million in funding has been awarded by the Faraday Battery Challenge to the High Value Manufacturing Catapult at Warwick Manufacturin … | Continue reading
In 2014, Tech Mahindra built its first Makers Lab in Pune, India. Attracting experts, students, young and old, the innovation center today brings together clever minds in business, academia, and the general public to work on the future of the hottest emerging technologies. Since … | Continue reading
In the latest Swedish Research Council (VR) call, a total of SEK 660,747,160 has been granted to 143 KI researchers, an increase on last year’s SEK 625,904,933. All in all, VR granted SEK 1.37 billion in 2023, compared with 1.2 billion in 2022. Call in the fields of medicine and … | Continue reading
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel meeting with Canadian representatives during the EU-Canada summit in November 2023. Photo: Christophe Licoppe / European Union Canada’s research community is rushing to organise the … | Continue reading
UK universities will be encouraged to take lower equity stakes in spin-out companies following an independent review of technology transfer practices commissioned by the government. The aim is to harmonise spin-out terms in the lower range currently seen in practice. Twenty-five … | Continue reading
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is a temporary instrument and part of NextGenerationEU, the EU’s plan to emerge stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: European Union EU member states plan to spend a combined €75.35 billion of the post-COVID recovery fund on resear … | Continue reading
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during an EU-Canada summit in November 2023. Photo: Christophe Licoppe / European Union Last week, Canada became the latest non-European country to announce it will join Horizon Europe, … | Continue reading
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen first announced the new Bauhaus project back in 2020. Photo: European Union The New European Bauhaus Mission (NEB) won’t be seeing the light of day after member states jointly said no to the European Commission’s proposal. Instea … | Continue reading
The new €41.3 million research centre will be the home of research, innovation, and policy development across the interlinked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and water degradation on the islands of Ireland and Britain. The Climate+ Co-Centre, which will initially … | Continue reading
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Luminor Bank AS today signed a €115 million agreement to facilitate additional lending to small to medium-sized companies and mid-caps in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The blending of the EIB loan with Luminor’s resources will pave the way … | Continue reading
The University of Birmingham’s Brazil Institute celebrated its official opening in the presence of His Excellency Mr Antonio Patriota, Brazil Ambassador to the UK. Building on the work of the Birmingham Brazil Forum, the new Brazil Institute aims to deepen and widen the Universit … | Continue reading
In a significant move to fortify Israel’s high-tech sector during a period of uncertainty, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a substantial expansion of the budget allocated to the Israel Innovation Authority’s Fast-Track program. The program’s funding has been increased … | Continue reading
Large language models (LLMs) are deep learning algorithms trained on vast amounts of text to learn billions of mathematical relationships between words (also called ‘parameters’). They are familiar to most of us as the algorithmic basis for chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and PaLM … | Continue reading
The Association of MBAs (AMBA) has accredited the Entrepreneurial Management MBA programme of The School of Business and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), bringing the programme among the global top 2% or 300 and being the first such prestigious accreditat … | Continue reading
Charles Michel, President of the European Council; Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister; Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission After lengthy negotiations, the EU and Canada reached agreement for Canadian researchers to join Horizon Europe research programm … | Continue reading
Ursula von der Leyen and Justin Trudeau shaking hands after a bilateral meeting in March. Photo: European Commission Canada is to join Horizon Europe, the EU’s €95.5 billion programme for research and innovation, according to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. “Canada's joi … | Continue reading
Novo Nordisk announced the investment of more than 16 billion Danish kroner (2.1 billion euros) starting in 20231 to expand the existing production site in Chartres, France, for the current and future product portfolio within serious chronic diseases. The investment will signific … | Continue reading
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaking during EU Hydrogen Week. Photo: European Union The European Commission has made a new move to encourage the scale up and deployment of renewable hydrogen, opening the first auction under the European Hydrogen Bank, with … | Continue reading