Promote or protect: How to manage intellectual assets as a driver of innovation?

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Horizon Europe: Theme TBC

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2026 Annual Network Conference: Members consultation & planning meeting

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Quantum tech: Is it ready to drive European competitiveness and security?

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Annual Network Planning Meeting

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Summer Reception

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University of Luxembourg: Leading the way in making AI trustworthy

How do you evaluate the robustness of an Artificial Intelligence system against security attacks? This question is at the heart of an SnT paper that was recently awarded as spotlight paper at the prestigious NeurIPS conference. More than 15,000 papers were submitted for this even … | Continue reading


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Vinnova: Civil-military innovations will strengthen Sweden's defense capabilities

The war in Ukraine and cyber attacks creates threats against Swedens national security. In order to strengthen our national defense capability and give the Swedish Armed Forces access to civilian cutting-edge technology, the first projects within the civil-military innovation pro … | Continue reading


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Imperial and Bruntwood SciTech join forces for White City innovation centre

Imperial is achieving a major step-up in life sciences capacity at its White City Deep Tech Campus through a new joint venture with Bruntwood SciTech. Imperial, the leading global science university, is achieving a major step-up in its life sciences capacity at its White City Dee … | Continue reading


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CNRS: H.E.S.S. collaboration detects the most energetic cosmic-ray electrons and positrons ever observed

Scientists from the CNRS, a consortium of German universities, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik working at the H.E.S.S. observatory have recently identified electrons and positrons with the highest energies ever recorded on Earth. They provide evidence of cosmic process … | Continue reading


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CSC: Finland renews its national supercomputer

Finland acquires a new national data management and computing environment that will ensure competitive resources for Finnish researchers. The environment purchased consists of a new supercomputer, data management system and cloud computing capacity. The CSC – IT Center for Scienc … | Continue reading


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Europe overtakes Asia on deep tech investment

This year’s State of European Tech report – a mammoth overview of the sector, now in its tenth year – is out, and is filled with insights for… Read more here | Continue reading


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Airbus CEO criticises ‘unmanageable’ EU regulations

Guillaume Faury, Airbus CEO. Photo credits: Airbus Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury has called on the EU to rethink its “unmanageable” regulations, which he says are making it difficult to attract investment to Europe. Faury said the aviation industry is committed to decarbonisation, w … | Continue reading


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R&I partnerships will have ‘important role’ in FP10

Rosalinde van der Vlies, director of the Commission’s Clean Planet Directorate in DG Research and Innovation, attending the European Civil Aeronautics Summit 2024 in Brussels. Photo credits: Mégane Fontaine / European Civil Aeronautics Summit It is likely to be evolution not revo … | Continue reading


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Viewpoint: Missions are the future

Negotiations between the European Commission and member states on Framework Programme 10 are in full swing, at a time when reports from Enrico Letta, Mario Draghi, and Manuel Heitor's expert group have highlighted how the EU’s productivity and economic growth are hanging… Read mo … | Continue reading


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Fusion is needed for European autonomy, says new industry body

Milena Roveda (left), chair of the European Fusion Association's (EFA) executive board and chief executive of Munich-based Gauss Fusion, and Anders Wulff (right), EFA board member. Europe needs to back nuclear fusion to help achieve energy independence, a new European industry bo … | Continue reading


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Horizon Europe goes global: who’s in, who’s out, and why?

Photo credits: European Union Which countries are “associated” to Horizon? Beyond the EU members, Horizon Europe currently has 20 associated countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada (for big… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading


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Horizon Europe goes global: who’s in, who’s out, and why?

Which countries are “associated” to Horizon? Beyond the EU members, Horizon Europe currently has 20 associated countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada (for big… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading


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What Widening countries want from FP10

Photo credits: European Union Position papers from seven member states in central and eastern Europe indicate there is a great diversity of opinion over how the EU should organise and structure the next Framework Programme for research and innovation, FP10. FP10 does… Read more h … | Continue reading


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Boost national R&D spending, Ivanova tells Widening countries

Research commissioner Iliana Ivanova. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union Widening countries should “continue investing” in national R&D programmes and reform their funding systems, the outgoing EU commissioner for research and innovation Iliana Ivanova said in reply to … | Continue reading


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The Ecosystem: Widening countries in central and eastern Europe line up for AI factories

LUMI supercomputer in Finland. Photo credits: LUMI High performance computing centres in central and eastern Europe are positioning to tap the wave of EU money that is about to flow for artificial intelligence (AI) factories. In some countries, such as Estonia, participation in a … | Continue reading


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The Ecosystem: Widening countries in central and eastern Europe line up for AI factories

LUMI supercomputer in Finland. Photo credits: LUMI High performance computing centres in central and eastern Europe are positioning to tap the wave of EU money that is about to flow for artificial intelligence (AI) factories. In some countries, such as Estonia, participation in a … | Continue reading


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EUA seeks a Project & Policy Officer - Policy Coordination and Foresight Team

EUA is hiring a Project & Policy Officer for its Policy Coordination and Foresight Team – Full-time (38h/w) permanent contract – Brussels. The European University Association (EUA) is looking for a recent graduate who is eager to learn and contribute to a dynamic organisation wit … | Continue reading


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EUA is looking for a Research & Innovation Director

EUA is recruiting a Research & Innovation Director - Full-time (38h/w) permanent contract – Brussels. EUA is seeking an experienced professional to take responsibility for the Association’s Research & Innovation (R&I) unit. The post is of strategic importance to EUA, as it is… Re … | Continue reading


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Greece tops the league table in winning EU funding from the civil security cluster

Photo credits: Trine Juel / Flickr Greece is the leader of the third cluster of Horizon Europe’s Pillar II, bringing home 15% of the funding distributed to date for research into civil security for society. The cluster, focused on priorities ranging from combating terrorism to… S … | Continue reading


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Growth in European pharma R&D spending outpaced by US and China

Photo credits: Anton_Medvedev / BigStock US spending on pharmaceutical research and development has left Europe behind in the last decade, and Chinese investment is growing faster than in both regions, new research shows. In the EU, Switzerland, the UK and Norway, private R&D… Su … | Continue reading


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Horizon Europe essentials: who’s winning big?

Photo credits: European Union If you heed the official rhetoric, Framework Programmes have always been about advancing science, technology, competitiveness, harmony and other good things. But if you’re in Brussels, all you hear about is the money: who gets it, who doesn’t get it, … | Continue reading


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Push for blinded evaluation gathers momentum

Ekaterina Zaharieva, commissioner-designate for start-ups, research and innovation, on November 5, 2024. Photo credits: Laurie Dieffembacq / European Union EU research commissioner designate Ekaterina Zaharieva has said she is in favour of blinded evaluation in Horizon Europe, te … | Continue reading


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Funding Radar: This week we round up calls targeted at young researchers

Photo credits: zverge / BigStock One objective of EU research funding is to enhance career prospects for young researchers, with the flagship programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) providing fellowships, training and mobility opportunities. MSCA, part of Horizon Europe… … | Continue reading


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How the UK’s new innovation agency works

Ilan Gur, CEO of the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency. Photo: mitenergyconference.org It’s almost two years since the UK established the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), a funding body designed to take big swings on high-risk research, from developing syn … | Continue reading


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Horizon Europe cuts avoided as Parliament strikes 2025 spending deal

Photo credits: Michel Christen/ European Union The European Parliament has convinced member states not to go ahead with €400 million cuts to Horizon Europe in 2025, and instead to provide the programme with €25 million more than the initial proposal from the Commission. MEPs had … | Continue reading


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Towards a strengthened European cooperation in Brain health research

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Skills Development for Smart Specialization

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University of Twente: €380M in EU funding for international consortium building pilot plant for photonics chips

The Netherlands will have a European pilot plant for photonic chips. This future generation of chips will process information with light instead of electrons. A total of 380 million euros in public investment has been made available for this project by Europe and eleven participa … | Continue reading


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EUA calls for greater interoperability of higher education in Europe

Interoperability refers to the ability for partner universities to seamlessly and securely share data across institutional and national boundaries. In this briefing, EUA explores interoperability’s potential to transform cooperation within and beyond the European Universities all … | Continue reading


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Imperial opens hub in Ghana with a commitment to boost scientific collaboration

Imperial has opened a hub in Ghana with a commitment to boost scientific collaboration as it launches new fellowships in AI and Climate Science. Imperial – the leading global science, technology and business university – opens its first African hub in Accra, becoming the… Read mo … | Continue reading


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Science, industry and government seek solution to grid congestion via large-scale living lab on TU/e campus

In the search for solutions to the current grid congestion problem, science, industry, and government are joining forces, killing two birds with one stone. With the OPZuid project GENIUS, TU/e wants to tackle grid congestion together with companies, municipalities, and the provin … | Continue reading


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Stockholm University wins over €10M in grants from Swedish Research Council for natural and geoengineering sciences

The Swedish Research Council has published its decision on project and start-up grants in science and technology. 25 researchers at Stockholm University have been awarded project grants, five have received start-up grants. The total grant amount is just over SEK 123 million. A nu … | Continue reading


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Trump victory triggers uncertainty over transatlantic relations in AI

Photo credits: aslysun / BigStock As Donald Trump assembles his executive team, scientists and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic are wondering what the impact his second mandate will have on EU-US collaboration in artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies. Read … | Continue reading


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Joint undertakings have mixed success in securing private resources

Leonardo, the European supercomputer in Italy. Photo credits: Cineca While the finances of the EU’s joint undertakings (JUs) are in good shape, contributions from the private sector are in some cases falling short, according to the annual report on the research partnerships by th … | Continue reading


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Polytechnique Montréal now has the most powerful atom probe available in North America

Polytechnique Montréal today marked a milestone in its involvement in high-technology materials development, with the inauguration of facilities housing the first atom probe tomography microscope in Québec, and the first model of its generation in North America. Procured… Read mo … | Continue reading


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AUAS: BrightSky project connects fundamental research with the aviation industry

The aviation industry wants to become more sustainabale, smart and efficient. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) is addressing this challenge in the BrightSky project. Professor of Aviation Engineering Konstantinos Stamoulis explains what it entails. Read more he … | Continue reading


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Falling Walls: how Europe can strengthen transfer and innovation

Photo credits: Falling Walls Foundation Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Science|Business has partnered with Table.Media, a leading source of news about higher education and research in Germany. Each week, we are… Read more here | Continue reading


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CSC announces significant step forward for Finland's quantum secure network

This week, Telia successfully tested the ultra-secure quantum encryption technology in its network in Helsinki as the first commercial operator in Finland. The demo is a significant step in a national project which aims to build a quantum secure network for Finland. Quantum key… … | Continue reading


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NRDIO: New innovation voucher scheme supports Hungarian SMEs to boost their innovation performance

The National Research, Development and Innovation Office is launching a new call for proposals to support Hungarian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in their innovation efforts. Under the HUF 2.5 billion call titled “Development of applied research and innovation service … | Continue reading


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Commissioner designate Virkkunen moots EU quantum act

Henna Virkkunen, commissioner-designate for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, during her confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels. Photo credits: Lukasz Kobus The proposed commissioner for tech sovereignty, security and democracy has revealed she is coo … | Continue reading


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South Africa and Japan strengthen science, technology and innovation ties

South Africa and Japan held their 9th Joint Committee Meeting on Science and Technology in Pretoria on 6 November 2024, cementing a long-standing partnership and exploring new areas for cooperation such as innovation for industrial development. Bilateral cooperation has… Read mor … | Continue reading


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UvA launches new climate institute SEVEN

On 4 November, the launch of SEVEN - an entirely new and unique initiative to connect and reinvigorate all climate research from the seven UvA faculties - took place. André Nollkaemper, University Professor of International Law and Sustainability, and initiator of SEVEN, explains … | Continue reading


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