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Eco-technologies get a boost through innovation clusters
28/07/2011
Eco-technologies get a boost through innovation clusters
Academic, economic and political sectors are forming partnerships in regions around the world to give extra impetus and support to R&D, innovation and brand-new eco-technologies. Innovation clusters bringing together researchers, companies and public authorities have long existed, but it is...
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Developing collaborative solutions to environmental challenges
28/07/2011
Developing collaborative solutions to environmental challenges
European Technology Platforms play a key role in helping the Environmental Technologies Action Plan ensure eco-innovations make the transition from research to commercialisation. Ensuring the right innovations emerge to meet environmental challenges is one of ETAP’s main priorities. To...
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EIT knowledge and innovation communities to promote innovation and ensure competitiveness in Europe
28/07/2011
EIT knowledge and innovation communities to promote innovation and ensure competitiveness in Europe
Knowledge and innovation communities hold the key to the growth of innovation in Europe, and will form the foundations of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Europe's richest resource is its wealth of intellect and inventiveness. It is essential to tap such a pool of...
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Nanotechnology: potential benefits, unknown risks
28/07/2011
Nanotechnology: potential benefits, unknown risks
As the European Commission works to shape the EU’s future nanotechnology strategy, experts from across the Union are calling for more research into potential environmental risks. Nanotechnology has the potential to enhance environmental protection, whilst boosting Europe’s industrial...
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EU funding for environmental research encourages a variety of projects
28/07/2011
EU funding for environmental research encourages a variety of projects
Funding for environmental technologies in FP7 has resulted in a series of promising research projects. Such investment into R&D can potentially lead to real environmental benefits. In a rapidly changing economic climate that is forcing us to face an uncertain future, Europe must rely on its...
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Importance of industry's R&D contribution to sustainability
28/07/2011
Importance of industry's R&D contribution to sustainability
Industry has a key role to play in optimising the contribution research makes to sustainable development but management must seize the opportunities according to a recent Commission conference. “Putting European R&D at the service of sustainable development is essential to our future,”...
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The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) calls for independent experts.
28/07/2011
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) calls for independent experts.
The call is addressed to individuals for the establishment of a database of independent experts to provide expertise in support of evaluations and of implementation of the EIT and of Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). The EIT is looking for experts from a wide range of profiles and...
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Making building materials greener
04/09/2011
Making building materials greener
Life-cycle assessment reveals potential for eco-innovation and substitution of traditional materials by natural, local equivalents to cut the environmental footprint of buildings. The impact of a building on its environment has just as much to do with the materials used to construct it as with...
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Innovative bioprocesses may offer benefits to a fading colour textile industry
19/09/2011
Innovative bioprocesses may offer benefits to a fading colour textile industry
The scaling-up of sustainable, high-tech dyeing technology is the focus of an ongoing European Commission funded project aimed at strengthening SMEs in the colour textile industry. The Bioprocessing for Sustainable Production of Coloured Textiles project (BISCOL) is well on its way toward...
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Pooling Europe’s eco-innovation efforts
26/10/2011
Pooling Europe’s eco-innovation efforts
ECO-INNOVERA is an attempt to create a truly European vision and support programme for eco-innovation with one of its first outputs being a cross-border call for proposals for R&D. ECO-INNOVERA is a new European Research Area (ERA) network that brings together different Member States - and...
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