UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering. Photo credits: Royal Academy of Engineering The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering is distributing £150 million in grants to researchers who want to build commercially viable new green technologies, in what it says is a “unique” funding model. … … | Continue reading
The KU Leuven Institutes carry out interdisciplinary research with a societal relevance. They focus on subjects that remain important in the long term and rely on an extensive and interdisciplinary network. They are the ideal basis for the exchange of expertise across disciplinar … | Continue reading
INESC TEC joined the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), a European organisation that promotes the research, development and adoption of Big Data technologies in a sustainable and innovative ecosystem. This is an important step for the Institute, allowing to advance the impact and … | Continue reading
Innovate UK and Defra fund 19 business-led environmental monitoring projects looking at biodiversity, soil health, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions. The UK relies on effective environmental monitoring to support decision making, for example on actions needed to tackle t … | Continue reading
For over a year and a half, researchers from TU Delft and the Cambridge University Centre for Climate Repair have worked together on groundbreaking techniques to increase the reflectivity of clouds in the fight against global warming. During a two-day meeting, the teams are discu … | Continue reading
As the global race for technological leadership intensifies, the AI, Data and Robotics Forum will highlight Europe's potential to lead in AI, data and robotics—key sectors that will shape the foundation of… Read more here | Continue reading
Singapore's skyline. Photo credits: Christopher Chan / Flickr The European Commission has talked up Singapore’s record on democracy and human rights to member states to justify the city state’s inclusion in the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. … Read more he … | Continue reading
German MEP Christian Ehler (right) and former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta (left) at the Research Matters' event held in Brussels on October 2, 2024. Photo credits: Eleonora Francica / Science|Business With circulating rumours about the future of the next Framework Program … | Continue reading
Photo credits: MSCA / European Union Thirteen organisations representing European research and innovation have come together to urge the Commission to increase the budget for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the EU’s doctoral and postdoctoral training programme.<… Read … | Continue reading
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Hydrogen research. Photo: Flickr Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Science|Business has partnered with Table.Media, a leading source of news about higher education and research in…Read more here | Continue reading
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Victor Negrescu MEP. Photo: European Parliament The European Parliament is opposing proposed cuts to the 2025 EU budget, which includes slashing €400 million from Horizon Europe. The proposal for next year’s EU budget “cannot be accepted,” said Victor Negrescu, rapporteur for… Re … | Continue reading
Bruno Tobback MEP. Photo credits: Philippe Buissin / European Union Europe has fallen behind when it comes to clean and digital technologies because of a lack of investment and a failure to plan to achieve its targets, says newly elected Belgian MEP Bruno Tobback. Read more here | Continue reading
Photonics21 has published three thematic reports which focus on industrial applications of high relevance for photonic technologies: Defence, Virtual Worlds and High Performance Computing. The reports, conducted by French market intelligence group… Read more here | Continue reading
The Synthetic hEalthcare dAta goveRnanCe Hub (SEARCH) launches today and aims to accelerate healthcare innovation by generating FAIRified synthetic data for use in AI/ML models. Today sees the launch of the Synthetic hEalthcare dAta goveRnanCe Hub (SEARCH); a multi-disciplinary… … | Continue reading
The FEGA service, developed for sensitive biomedical research data, enables the secure publication of research data. The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) differs from other available publication and analysis services in that the data are not exported from the serv … | Continue reading
The CNRS Gold Medal, one of France's most prestigious scientific awards, will be presented this year to biologist Edith Heard. A world-renowned specialist in epigenetics, Heard has made exceptional contributions to the advancement of her discipline, particularly on the inactivati … | Continue reading
Europe has fallen behind when it comes to clean and digital technologies because of a lack of investment and a failure to plan to achieve its targets, says newly elected Belgian MEP Bruno Tobback. Read more here | Continue reading
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Photo credits: BluSpecs The EU-funded INSTAR project has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Korea – its first with an international partner. Established in October 2023 to promote EU values in … Read more here | Continue reading
On 1 October 2024, CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, hosted a special high-level ceremony to celebrate its 70th anniversary, attended by 38 national delegations, including Heads of State and Government from Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Serbia,… Read more here | Continue reading
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EIT director Martin Kern. Photo credits: European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) / European Union The European Institute of Innovation and Technology ‘s (EIT) knowledge and innovation communities (KICs) are progressing towards financial sustainability, but there is … | Continue reading
Alexandra Geese, German Green MEP. Photo credits: Fred Marvaux / European Union Plans by the European Commission to cut dedicated funding for a European open source software initiative and divert it to artificial intelligence have triggered a campaign in the European parliament t … | Continue reading
Some of the flags of EU member state are pictured at the entrance of the European Parliament in Brussels. European Parliament / Pietro Naj-Oleari / Flickr Member state investment in Horizon Europe’s public-private partnerships is soaring, with Spain taking the lead as the biggest … | Continue reading
Niklas Blomberg, Executive Director of IHI. Photo credits: IHI The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) will pilot an applicant-driven call next year, letting researchers propose the challenges they want to tackle. “We've spelled out in our… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock In August the European Environment Agency published a report warning… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: Edward Li / Flickr Pro bono law programmes often target good causes or groups unable to afford legal help. But there are also law firms that provide pro bono help to would-be start-ups, offering the expertise needed to get tech company founders underway.<… Subscrib … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Nestlé / Flickr Project managers in large collaborative projects get the short end of the stick. The indispensable administrative work they carry out may be a burden, but it’s thanks to them that projects deliver. … Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, has invested £11.5 million across 16 projects to improve and scale-up semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains. The new investment aims to: scale up semiconductor manufacturing within the UK improve…Read more here | Continue reading
The European Union has taken another step towards enhancing the European quantum computing infrastructure by signing a contract for the acquisition of the LUMI-Q consortium’s quantum computer. The quantum computer will be housed in Ostrava, Czech Republic, at the IT4Innovations N … | Continue reading
President Yoon’s official visit to the Czech Republic in September 2024 has deepened the existing strategic partnership between the two countries, signing 56 MOUs in diverse sectors. Starting with nuclear energy partnerships in which 13 MOUs were signed, it includes political pol … | Continue reading
The Kiel Microbiome Center aims to catalyse microbiome research at Kiel University and launches this week with a series of scientific events New Kiel Microbiome Center at Kiel University connects local microbiome researchers Kick-off event from 23-26 September on key…Read more he … | Continue reading
A unique opportunity for Germany as a business location lies in deep tech and a strong innovation system of science and industry. Fraunhofer will be demonstrating its expertise in entrepreneurial technology transfer at the Bits & Pretzels innovation summit in Munich, which will b … | Continue reading
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Photo credits: Kirsty O'Connor / No 10 Downing Street / Flickr The UK is “interested in potentially associating” to FP10, the EU’s next research and innovation programme, according to a new Read more here | Continue reading
MEP Eszter Lakos speaking during a Science|Business event held in Brussels, Belgium, on July 9, 2024. Photo credits: Eleonora Francica / Science|Business Research and innovation is shaping up to have a central role in the EU’s new competitiveness agenda, but Hungarian MEP Eszter … | Continue reading
Max Reddel (left), advanced AI director at the International Centre for Future Generations (ICFG), and Bálint Pataki (right), senior advanced AI researcher at ICFG. In June Ursula von der Leyen put the idea of building a Read more here | Continue reading
On 23 September 2024, as part of the Science Summit at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA79), COST co-organised the session ‘Hurdles to International… Read more here | Continue reading
Three-quarters of Earth’s land-based environment and about 66% of its marine environment have already been significantly altered by human actions. In the face of climate change and accelerating… Read more here | Continue reading
With new investment and a new chief executive, Imperial startup Puraffinity is ready to take its PFAS removal system to the market. Imperial startup Puraffinity, which is developing technologies to remove persistent toxic chemicals from… Read more here | Continue reading