Founded in 2009, the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is celebrating 15 years of contribution to biomedical research in Luxembourg and beyond. Focusing on neurodegenerative disorders since its creation, the centre put Luxembourg on the map for its internationally … | Continue reading
With 58 partners, a grant of more than €34.5 million and a total budget of more than €50 million, GroenvermogenNL's new HyPRO project is the largest R&D project for green hydrogen in the Netherlands to date. This R&D project was awarded funding by NWO this week. The consortium wi … | 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… Read more her … | Continue reading
Balázs Hankó, minister for Culture and Innovation, speaking after chairing an informal meeting of research and higher education ministers in Budapest. Photo credit: European Union The ongoing dispute between Brussels and Hungary over the EU funding ban overshadowed “very fruitful … | Continue reading
Research commissioner designate Ekaterina Zaharieva. Photo credits: Aurore Martignoni / European Union The Widening games are on. Well ahead of a proposal by the European Commission for the next framework programme for research – due in the first half of 2025 – member states are … | Continue reading
Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. Photo credits: Vytautas Magnus University / Flickr Demographic change is a problem for universities and research institutions across the continent but Widening countries are in a worse position, according to the European University … | Continue reading
As the debate about the future of Widening in the next Framework programme for Research (FP10) is heating up, Science|Business assembled a group of leading research and innovation actors to help research stakeholders and policymakers find the best ways to unlock the EU’s full res … | Continue reading
Research commissioner Iliana Ivanova (centre) visiting the project exhibition at the 2024 EIC Summit. Photo credits: EU Science & Innovation / Flickr Both the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) provide “substantial EU a … | Continue reading
Thomas Estermann, director for governance, funding and public policy development at the European University Association (EUA). Photo credits: European Union As Europe has faced crisis after crisis in recent years, its universities have been dealing with the impact. The pandemic b … | Continue reading
EIT headquarters in Budapest The European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s (EIT) network of one-stop-shops across Europe’s less innovative regions is growing, with eleven more set to be added by the end of the year and six more in early 2025. Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Last week, the European Commission launched two new funding calls totaling €188.6 million for sustainable energy projects under Horizon Europe’s 2023-2024 work programme in climate, energy, and mobility. This… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Photo credits: Neil Palmer / CIAT / CIFOR-ICRAF / Flickr Research and innovation ministers from the G20 group of countries have backed several new joint projects aimed at helping th … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union The Widening programme set up to help lagging member states catch up with the EU’s innovation leaders seems to be bearing fruit, with lower performing countries increasing their share of grants from 9% in Horizon 2020 to 13% in the first half of… Sub … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Flickr Participation in European partnerships has grown and spread across more countries since 2022, with every every euro from the EU budget attracting an estimated €1.63 from other sources, according to a new report by the European Commission. … Subscribe to read … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Laser Research Centre in the Faculty of Physics at Vilnius University Lithuania’s laser ecosystem is remarkably strong. Underpinned by an academic centre of excellence at the University of Vilnius, it has grown dramatically over the past two decade to cover almost … | Continue reading
EIT Health welcomes eight new Associate Partners from across Europe into our community. These new additions to the membership will enrich the EIT Health network by collectively bringing expertise, resources and opportunities in education, mental health, connected medical solution … | Continue reading
Finland has the potential to boost international RDI cooperation and technological development linked to artificial intelligence with, for example, Singapore. High-performance computing infrastructures supporting AI development, such as EUROHPC-LUMI, located in the data centre in … | Continue reading
The Dutch Research Council NWO has announced the launch of HyPRO, the largest R&D project into green hydrogen in the Netherlands to date. With a total budget of over €50 million it aims to boost development and implementation of technology for the sustainable production of hydrog … | Continue reading
BATCircle2.0 –– a key project in Business Finland’s Smart Mobility and Batteries from Finland program –– came to a successful conclusion in the end of August 2024. Over three years, the project resulted in a substantial level of R&D activities in companies and academia, as well a … | Continue reading
EIB lends €100 million to SGEF Poland to support small and medium-sized companies. SGEF Poland to generate new financing worth twice loan value. Deal is part of EU…Read more here | Continue reading
Have you recently graduated? In 2022, we 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 Parc du Cinquantenaire. You’d be… Read mo … | Continue reading
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€3.5 billion for urban development and smart cities €1.4 billion for business investment and corporate innovation €350 million for sustainable transport and water Transparency, accountability and well-being Action Plan welcomed The Board… Read more here | Continue reading
Researchers at ETH Zurich have been working with researchers from Ukraine and Germany to investigate how to rebuild Ukraine’s destroyed energy infrastructure based on renewable energy. They have determined that solar and wind energy would quickly deliver a distributed power suppl … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Anne Davis 773 / Flickr Universities and academic institutions have largely rejected a European Commission proposal to allow dual use research projects in FP10, the successor programme to Horizon Europe due to start in 2028. Following Russia’s invasion… Read more h … | Continue reading
Janez Potočnik, former research, science and innovation commissioner 2004-2009 at the European Commission's conference held in Brussels on the European Research Area (ERA). Photo credits: European Union The ambition of creating a true single market for research, innovation, knowl … | Continue reading
The Research Council of Norway is awarding NOK 211 million to 20 new research projects with great potential to move the research front in their fields. Common to the projects is that they are of very high scientific quality. "The knowledge we gain through curiosity-driven researc … | Continue reading
European Parliament's Plenary session. Photo credits: Philippe Stirnweiss / European Union As the dust settles on the new commission unveiled by returning European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, research and innovation-focused MEPs have been reacting – and … | Continue reading
Deeptech startups are at the forefront of revolutionizing industries and solving global challenges. By leveraging cutting-edge research in areas such as artificial intelligence, life science, sustainable food, nanotechnology, biotechnology, these companies develop radical solutio … | Continue reading
The University of Twente is strengthening its collaboration with the Zwolle region. An important step in this regard is the new collaboration agreement with Perron038, the innovation centre for the manufacturing industry in Zwolle and the surrounding region. Together… Read more h … | Continue reading
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Photo: European Union Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming science at breakneck speed. It is not only enabling groundbreaking discoveries but provides completely novel answers to the big challenges we face, such as climate change or antimicrobial resistance. AI in science … | Continue reading
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Photo credits: European Union Today is the day. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced her new college of commissioners and one thing is clear: a third Bulgarian woman is likely to serve as the commissioner for research and innovation. … Read more here | Continue reading
Newly appointed research commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva. Photo credits: Arno Mikkor (EU2017EE) / Flickr Bulgarian Ekaterina Zaharieva has been unveiled as the new commissioner for start-ups, research and innovation, after returning Commission president Ursula von der Leyen dole … | Continue reading
Newly appointed research commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva during an informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the member states of the European Union in Berlin in July 2020. Photo credits: Auswaertiges Amt / photothek / Flickr European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen … | Continue reading
Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council, speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 20 January. Photo credits: World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek / Flickr The European Research Council (ERC) may increase the size o … | Continue reading
NATO's new headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Flickr NATO has selected ten companies that will move to the second phase of its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) start-up accelerator programme. Th … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The European Commission will today launch a Horizon Europe call on hydrogen research and innovation, further underlining the EU’s commitment to this clean energy source. The call builds on EU-backed research from the early 2000s… Subscribe to read … | Continue reading
LUMI supercomputer in Finland. Photo credits: Fade Creative / LUMI The European Commission has launched two calls for artificial intelligence factories to provide start-ups and researchers with easier access to supercomputers that are designed for the large-scale training and dev … | Continue reading
Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China speaks at a United Nations Office in Geneva. UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré / Flickr Over the past year, China’s President Xi Jinping has increasingly peppered his speeches with references to “new productive forces”. Even by the… … | Continue reading
Photo credits: BigStock Readers of this column will have noticed that however the data are sliced, institutions in western Europe and the Nordics usually top the rankings in winning EU research funding. The story for European Innovation Council (EIC) funding is no… Subscribe to r … | Continue reading
Examples of high-priority "prototype" pathogens (left to right): hantavirus, yellow fever virus, Nipah virus, picornavirus, and Chikungunya. Photo credits: NIAID / Flickr The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge of interest in technologies for removing viruses from the air, with fa … | Continue reading
Talpo, the new technology, aims to enhance vineyard, fruit, and olive tree production while cutting pesticide use by up to 40%, promoting farm sustainability and protecting natural resources. A cutting-edge device, integrated into agricultural machinery, will provide real-time…Re … | Continue reading
On 14 September, ETH Zurich officially inaugurated the new 'Alps' supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano. The celebrations in Lugano were attended by Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and well-known personalities from the worlds of science and po … | Continue reading
Imperial College London has announced its first physical presence in the US, with a new hub located in San Francisco. The new San Francisco hub will be launched in October to bring Imperial’s world leading science and tech research closer to the centre of global venture capital.< … | Continue reading
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Students from anywhere in the world who are interested in pursuing their PhD at one of INESC TEC’s research Centres can – from July 24 until early September – submit their expression of interest. INESC TEC provides unique conditions for PhD students, with a dynamic environment wh … | Continue reading