On 28 August, the University of Tartu’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation met representatives of the Finnish venture capital fund Nordic Science Investments. During the meeting, the parties discussed starting cooperation between the university and the fund and set out th … | Continue reading
Michele Dougherty, Professor of Space Physics at Imperial, will be the next Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is part of UK Research and… Read more here | Continue reading
In response to the urgent need for improved higher education programs and support services for refugees and their communities, several leading universities from three continents recently launched the Global University Academy to develop a universal higher education model. Univers … | Continue reading
EIB and DBSA have committed an additional € 100 million (ZAR 1.98 billion) each to the initiative launched in 2022. The initiative supports private sector solar and wind energy projects in South Africa, contributing to reliable clean energy and job creation. Read more here | Continue reading
BigDog robot, funded by DARPA. Photo credits: DARPA This week’s enormous report… Read more here | Continue reading
Pedro Miguel da Costa e Silva is ambassador of Brazil to the European Union. Coming: Amazon events in Brussels The Brazilian missions to the EU and Belgium are organising a series of events, to discuss the complexity of the tasks at hand…Read more here | Continue reading
Former Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi. Photo credits: Aurore Martignoni / European Union Research and innovation have never been more present in mainstream policy debates after this week former Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, placed research and innovation at the hear … | Continue reading
Marek Ženíšek, minister for science and research of Czech Republic. Photo credits: Marek Ženíšek / Twitter Czechia’s budget for science and research will go up by nearly 8% next year, to €1.72 billion, the government has announced. This will provide extra support for Czech scient … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Ai.Comput'In / Flickr Twenty years ago, the European Commission launched the Euraxess portal to help support researcher mobility and promote cross-border knowledge exchange. Two decades later, it has become the one-stop-shop for navigating careers across Europe, bu … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Nestlé / Flickr The latest round of European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants was announced last week, committing funding to 494 researchers to develop their ideas. This is the 17th year since the introduction of the grants, which have awarded a total of €9.3 … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The European Commission is set to launch several calls for proposals under the Horizon Europe programme this month, including those related to research and innovation in photovoltaics. The Commission has a long history of… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
The European Court of Auditors (ECA), in Luxembourg. Photo credits: European Union Halfway into the EU’s €724 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), member states had drawn down less than a third of the money, according to a new report Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Three Chinese medium self-propelled guns SU-100 displayed at The Tank Museum, Beijing. Photo credits: TMA_0 / Flickr A new report finds that Chinese research institutions may be deliberately downplaying or hiding their military links, using a variety of tricks that foreign resear … | Continue reading
Most researchers aren’t well-versed in the risks of cooperating with Chinese counterparts, a small-scale Austrian Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: Prachatai / Flickr The European Health Initiative (IHI) has introduced a playbook<… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handing over his competitiveness report to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Photo credit: Eleonora Francica, Science|Business A long-awaited report by one of Europe’s heavyweight politicians, Mario Draghi, put some extra mus … | Continue reading
European Chips Diversity Alliance (ECDA) initiative aims to bring more women and under-represented groups into industry EudaOrg research will support development of sector’s new DEI training tools Read more here | 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
The objective of open science is to make research robust and as transparent as possible. While scholarly articles used to be the most important and often the only result of research work, in an era of significant advances in IT where large-scale research infrastructures are being … | Continue reading
TU Delft, University of Amsterdam, TNO and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee are joining forces to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for surveillance robots. The OpenBots consortium, officially launched on 4 September, focuses on creating intelligent systems that can support … | Continue reading
Ofgem has approved 12 round two beta projects, awarding £84 million through the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. Delivery of net zero by 2030 The projects have been awarded beta funding to further develop ideas and… Read more here | Continue reading
Experts from CSC and Business Finland will present the benefits of supercomputing in RDI work to Finnish companies at the Supercomputing for Business seminar in Turku today. The seminar is attended by 48 RDI participants from companies in Southwest Finland. EuroHPC LUMI is Europe … | Continue reading
The modern practice of research generates massive amounts of raw data, metadata, and data products. Making research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) is essential to verify and build on previous research findings and to optimise the reuse of research d … | Continue reading
Danish MEP Stine Bosse attending the subcommittee on Public Health on July 23, 2024. Photo credits: Daina Le Lardic / European Union In the face of the European Commission blaming low R&D investment for economic stagnation, a newly elected MEP from Denmark, Stine Bosse, says the … | Continue reading
Volkswagen's research and production center for electric cars in Hefei. Photo credits: Volkswagen AG 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
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presenting the report with her special adviser Peter Strohschneider, former President of the German Research Foundation. Photo: European Union The EU should work towards more sustainable agri-food systems by increasing research and innova … | Continue reading
Said D. Werner Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is set to increase its defence budget, according to the government's latest draft law. Yet the record-breaking €53 billion … Read more here | Continue reading
Photo: Dennis Schroeder, Wikimedia Commons. If there’s a good news climate change story right now, one to counteract the grim daily scroll of reports about wildfires, droughts, dying coral reefs, and deadly heatwaves, it’s the stunning rise of solar power. Read more here | Continue reading
Industry Minister Ahn Duk-geun met his Bulgarian counterpart on Tuesday to sign a memorandum of understanding on forging deeper ties in the energy sector, including the nuclear power industry. Ahn inked the agreement with his Bulgarian counterpart, Vladimir Malinov, in Seoul to s … | Continue reading
Imperial has launched new funding for joint projects with top universities and institutes in India. Imperial – ranked second best university in the world in the latest QS World University rankings – will work with partners in India in areas such as artificial intelligence, quantu … | Continue reading
The European University Association’s Digital Transformation Map, a new living resource for universities navigating change in the digital space, is now online. Building on the Association’s work on the digital transition, the map gathers the experiences of EUA members and the wid … | Continue reading
The presence of artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly commonplace, making small improvements in almost every facet of life—from health care to finance, transportation and more. As research and innovation in this domain continues to flourish, a dynamic team of SnT … | Continue reading
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Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, during the GLOBSEC Forum, held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 30 August 2024. Photo credits: Dati Bendo / European Union Stakeholders in the Brussels research and innovation bubble are fretting over who will be the next E … | Continue reading
The GÉANT Association is delighted to announce Lise Fuhr as our next Chief Executive Officer, set to succeed current CEO Erik Huizer on 21 November 2024. Lise has served as Director General of ETNO, the Brussels-based association representing Europe… Read more here | Continue reading
Collège de France, one of the consortium partners. Photo credits: Boreio Selas / Flickr Up to 60 researchers who are facing threats at home or have had to flee their country, will be funded to continue their research in the EU, under a new fellowship scheme which launched on 1 Se … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union The European Innovation Council (EIC) this week welcomes three new programme managers who will guide its work in artificial intelligence, health and biotechnology, and advanced materials for energy. The experts join nine other programme managers help … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The European Commission is set to launch several calls under Horizon Europe this month, including some related to research and innovation in urban spaces and infrastructure development across Europe. Over the years, the EU’s commitment to improvin … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Steve Santore / Flickr Sixty students from around the world spent last week in Eindhoven visiting some of the leading players in the semiconductor and photonics industries, attending talks by industry specialists and visiting professors, and working on a team chall … | Continue reading
Photo credits: elblogdelaenergia / Flickr Horizon Europe Pillar II is more than a vehicle for excellent research. It’s a policy tool as well, aiming to deliver on EU priorities in areas ranging from semiconductors to health and climate. The next set of calls opening later this mo … | Continue reading
An analysis of Horizon Europe projects by scientific area shows natural sciences is the clear leader in terms of both the number of projects and the amount of funding. Of 13,340 currently approved projects, over 9,000 are in this category, according to CORDIS data. This is follow … | Continue reading
Juozas Vaicenavičius, Lithuanian R&D company Sensmetry's CEO. Photo credits: Sensmetry Lithuanian R&D company Sensmetry, a global leader in the safety and reliability of automated systems, is keen to participate in Horizon Europe. But the closed-club, paperwork-heavy culture has … | Continue reading
Imperial has signed a memorandum of understanding with IBM to build on their long-term relationship to address global challenges. IBM and Imperial have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to mark a new phase in the long-term partnership between the two organisations. The a … | Continue reading
The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder programme has awarded funding to several research projects, including four involving the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with topics ranging from fusion energy to advanced biotechnology. In late July, it was announced that four … | Continue reading
CERN is welcoming Estonia as its 24th Member State, marking the end of the formal application process that started in 2018 and crowning a period of cooperation that stretches back three decades. “Estonia is delighted to join CERN as a full Member because CERN accelerates more tha … | Continue reading
Every day, some of the fastest, most powerful machines use thousands of CPUs to perform the hardest calculations – and they do it incredibly fast. As the amount of data available increases, understanding and exploring supercomputers’ full potential and optimising their performanc … | Continue reading
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Blade Nzimande, has called on the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) to convene a summit to discuss transformation within South Africa's national system of innovation (NSI). Speaking in Pretoria at the launch o … | Continue reading
Science|Business is again the media partner of Eindhoven University of Technology’s Opening of the Academic Year (OAY). This year’s OAY once again has an exceptional line-up of speakers and will be live-streamed here. The world faces immense climate and energy challeanges, yet "G … | Continue reading