ASSISIbf is a FET project where scientists managed to create the first “social cyborg”: A society of swarms of living honeybees, living fish, bio-mimicking robots and bio-inspired algorithms. This is...
Sašo Džeroski's MAESTRA project team developed software implementations that help machine learning systems to deal with big data complexity. The software is now public. How can the novel MAESTRA...
The Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) research funding programme delivers results above expectations – and researchers appreciate it because it allows for a special mode of...
How can we better predict how new medications act in the human body? This was the main question when we started our FET Open project Body on a Chip (BoC) in 2012. Too many new and promising drugs...
Monitoring of water quality and aquatic ecosystems is crucial to protect fragile marine ecosystems. With EU funding, innovative sub-aquatic and bio-inspired robots have been designed to protect flora...
Internationally renowned artists and Future and Emerging Technology researchers team up and work for 9 months together in the cross-disciplinary FEAT initiative.
FET-Open is an extremely popular programme. The number of applications has been continuously rising since the previously ICT-centered programme was opened to all disciplines in 2014 within the...
High pressure in the pharmaceutical industry to decrease development time and costs has led to significant advancements to improve pre-clinical drug assessment. The “Body on a Chip”(BoC) develops...
2D-NANOLATTICES is the European project investigating the properties and behaviors of silicene, the graphene’s “cousin”. This new material could make revolutionary progress in nanoelectronic devices...
Last week, the Future was in Portugal ! To be exact, in Lisbon, in the Centre for the Unknown, of the Champalimaud Foundation. The Centre was hosting the high-level conference: "The Future of...
