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Your effective FET communication strategy

Would you like to know how to best design a successful communication and dissemination strategy for your FET project? The FET-Open project EFFECT is here to provide you with best practices guidelines during the organized by them communication strategy webinar. The webinar will address researchers and projects coordinators, as well as any stakeholder interested in FET research.

 
EUR 4 million for the innovators in online authentication

The European Commission has launched a new Horizon Prize: "Seamless authentication for all". EUR 4 million is available for inventing secure, privacy-friendly and affordable authentication methods for smart objects available to everyone.

 
International Conference on Integrated Quantum Photonics

This conference is organized in the framework of the FET funded QUCHIP project and the Marie-Curie project PICQUE. It will be the final conference for both projects. The scientific program foresees tutorial lectures, invited seminars on scientific results, oral contributions and posters. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2017.

 
FET Meet & Match

The FET Meet & Match is an incomparable opportunity for FET funded researchers, engineers and high tech SMEs to foster the exploitation of their research results by accessing business leaders including Business Innovation Centres, Innovation Incubators, early stage investors and venture capitalists.

 
FET-OPEN January 2017 cut-off Evaluation Results: 28 proposals selected for funding

A new batch of 28 excellent proposals that aim to explore novel ideas for Future and Emerging Technologies has been invited for grant preparation. The 26 Research and Innovation Actions and 2 Coordination and Support Actions were selected by independent experts in a fierce competition of 374 submitted proposals. The next deadline for submitting a FET-Open proposal is on 27 September 2017.

 
ETSI Security Week 2017

ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, is organising a series of workshops that will address key cybersecurity standardization challenges in the short, medium and longer term. The cybersecurity community will come together at ETSI to network and exchange on the state of standardization for cybersecurity.

 
Launch of the Silver Economy Awards

The Silver Economy Awards is a new initiative to reward ICT-based innovative solutions that improve the lives of European seniors and support the growth of the European Silver Economy. If you offer such a solution and you represent a public authority, non-for-profit or for profit organisation, you can apply from 8 June until 15 November 2017.

 
eHealth Week 2017: Save the Date

The coming eHealth Week 2017 will discuss topics such as 'Cross-border exchange of personal health data: from policy to practice' and 'European Reference Networks: how digital health helps'.

 
Close the circle in molecular communication

What is happening in molecular communication? To what extend can we interfere with the process, how and what for? Those and numerous other questions are challenging researchers in the field. One of the utmost difficulties for this emerging research filed, however, is synergizing the research methods, plans and approaches for maximizing the efficacy and success of the research.

 
NoHoW video: How to maintain a healthy weight with eHealth

Helping people to lose weight has been very much examined. The NoHoW project however focusses on keeping the weight off in the long term. While collecting evidence about what works and what doesn't, the NoHoW researchers have developed a weight loss maintenance toolkit consisting of mobile apps, web-based tools, smart scales, activity trackers etc.

 
Are you a fastest growing European scaleup and would like to engage with key US industry players? Apply for your participation in the "Startup Europe comes to Silicon Valley" 2017 event

Startup Europe comes to Silicon Valley (SEC2SV) - the premier programme for future European startup unicorns to engage with key US industry players will take place for the third year running. This annual event, organised by EIT Digital and Mind the Bridge, brings together EU policy makers and 15 of the fastest growing European scaleups to meet Silicon Valley stakeholders during a highly interactive week of local presentations and meetings. European scaleups can apply until 31 May.

 
Commission appoints new advisory group on ethics in science and new technologies

The European Commission has today officially re-launched the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) by appointing 15 high-calibre members. The Group will advise the Commission on all areas of policy where ethical, societal and fundamental rights issues intersect with the development of science and new technologies.