The United Nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published its latest report Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. It presents the impacts of climate change to date, the future risks from a changing climate, and the opportunities for effective action to reduce those risks. With the contribution of 1,729 experts, the report finds clear evidence that climate change is already having substantial and widespread impacts today but says strong and urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions can reduce the risk of such impacts in the future. "It's time to wake up and bring action to the scale needed.", Connie Hedegaard said. In this context, the European Commission is organising outreach event on 6 May 2014 in Brussels on: Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation: Key Messages from IPCC's 5th Assessment Report and Implications for Policy and Decision Making.
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President Obama's visit to Brussels is a reminder of how the EU and US can benefit by working together. From ensuring a safer internet for our kids, internet governance, not to mention significant trade and investment negotiations: there are many areas where we work with our American partners in the digital realm. But here's one example of a very concrete piece of research where we are "putting our heads together".
The Vice-President of the Commission Neelie Kroes delivered the video message at the Science 2.0 Conference in Hamburg on 26 March 2014
Human Brain project is featured in the latest Nature: "Brain-mapping projects to join forces US and European research programmes will begin coordinating research. The US brain-research programme aims to create tools to image and control brain activity, while its European counterpart hopes to create a working computational model of the organ."
EU initiative OurSpace is an open source, easy-to-use tool designed to support anyone who needs to consult with large groups of young people, regardless of nationality or language boundaries.
In new efforts to map every nook and neuron of the brain, a mouse is more important than you might think. Brain research referring to the EU Flagship Human Brain Project (https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/)
The FET Newsletter (edition Feb2014) highlight is on the presentations on the FET Open Calls given at our FET information day in Brussels (20th January 2014) and on the planned infoday on Coordination and Support Activities call (16 May 2014 in Brussels.).
The H2020 Information Day 'Innovation and Public sector' was held on 10 February 2014 in Brussels.
The European Commission has selected a consortium DHI to conduct a study on the environmental impacts of noise, vibrations and electromagnetic emissions from marine renewables.
Climawin technology developed by Danish, Irish, German SMEs in EU-funded project
The International Partnering Event gives the opportunity during TRA 2014 in Paris to identify and connect with future partners for technology partnering or international projects such as Horizon 2020.
Henry Markram, professor of Neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland is in Davos at the World Economic Forum representing the Human Brain Project in his role as coordinator.
The EIT has published today the Framework of Guidance for the EIT’s 2014 Call for KICs and the EIT’s Financial Regulation.
The European Commission today launched eight contractual Public Private Partnerships (cPPPs) of strategic importance for European industry. The partnerships will leverage more than €6 billion of investments to be allocated through calls for proposals under Horizon 2020, the new EU programme for research and innovation. Each euro of public funding is expected to trigger additional investments of between three and 10 euro to develop new technologies, products and services which will give European industry a leading position on world markets.
Scientists from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, have come up with a technique to establish early on if a cancer treatment is working. The results, published in Nature Medicine, confirm the method’s robustness. The lead author, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, is a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow.