The Commission announced today that it would grant €10 million from its research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, to support research into the new Coronavirus disease.
The FLIPT project tests and develops a novel way of polymer processing via controlled solidification derived from natural materials with reduced use of water and energy ("aquamelt" concept).
When we did the first implantation in 2008, the real question was: can we give back sensations to an amputee using electrodes implanted in peripheral nerves?
The Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Innovation LaunchPad aims to turn results from FET funded projects into societal or economic innovations. Up to EUR 100.000 is available to support short actions focused on the non-scientific aspects and the early stages of turning a FET result into a genuine innovation with socio-economic impacts.
Finalists’ day of the Blockchain for Social Good EIC Prize will be held on 10 February, 2020, in the Atrium of JRC, Brussels. The interactive event features discussions among the 24 finalists as well as an engaged audience, plus poster presentations of the different applications.
Six energy topics under the 2018-2020 Horizon 2020 Work Programme are open for application as of today, 3 December. They make available EU funding of €83 million in total. The topics relate to renewable energy solutions (RES). The projects will be selected for funding in a single-stage evaluation. The deadline to submit a proposal is 21 April 2020.
Six transport topics under the 2018-2020 Horizon 2020 Work Programme are open for application as of today, 3 December. They make available EU funding of €105 million. The projects will be selected for funding in a single-stage evaluation. The deadline to submit a proposal is 21 April 2020.
Four next-generation batteries topics under the 2018-2020 Horizon 2020 Work Programme are open for application as of today, 3 December. They make available EU funding of €90 million. The projects will be selected for funding in a single-stage evaluation. The deadline to submit a proposal is 21 April 2020.
15 Mobility for Growth topics under the 2018-2020 Horizon 2020 Work Programme are open for application as of today, 3 December. They make available EU funding of €99 million.
Seventy-five promising start-ups and SMEs have been selected in the largest funding round so far under the pilot phase of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. As a major novelty, 39 of these companies are set to receive both a grant and a direct equity investment.
The Ebola virus is a severe and often fatal illness in humans, with an average fatality rate of more than 50%. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals.
Teaming projects under the Horizon 2020 Widening Programme aim at setting up and developing new 'centres of excellence' in low R&I performing Member States. At a signing ceremony on 24 September, Jean-Eric Paquet, Director- General for Research and Innovation congratulated the 14 Teaming projects winners on this outstanding initiative and their contribution to bridging the research and innovation divide in Europe.
The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, with support from the European Commission through Horizon 2020, is organising a conference on gender equality in research and innovation on 23–24 October 2019 in Helsinki. This event marks 20 years since the first European Commission Communication on Women in Science and the follow-up founding of the Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation, which launched the EU action in this area.
Europe must take the lead and use its unlimited creativity to achieve solutions for sustainable growth. This was one of the recurrent themes of the first European Research and Innovation Days in Brussels this week. Its participants also agreed that the structure and priorities for the first years of Horizon Europe, the EU’s next research and innovation programme, are well defined to support this ambition.
The European Commission has announced the winners of the first Horizon Impact Award, a prize dedicated to EU-funded projects that have created societal impact across Europe and beyond. The winning projects have come up with a new drug for a rare disease, helped prevent child abuse, increased security of browsing the web and protected coastal areas against the effects of climate change.
The European Commission awarded today €1.5 million to three innovative solutions that are aimed at improving the life of aged people, whose mobility is compromised. The prizes are funded under Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme.
What are the next emerging technologies in which European industry should invest in? That was the key question of the workshop “Future technology for prosperity - Horizon Scanning, gathering leading figures of Europe’s research and technology institutes in Oslo on 2-3 of July 2019. This publication takes stock of the key recommendations from this workshop.
How can the EU best support impactful, inclusive research and innovation partnerships with industry, Member States and other stakeholders? Now you can share your views on the 12 proposed institutionalised partnerships under Horizon Europe, the next EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027). The consultation is a key step in assessing the overall need for and focus of specific research and innovation partnerships.
Altfinator Project aims to increase the capacity of the financial ecosystem to improve innovative SMEs’ access to alternative finance in Europe. As part of its activities, Altfinator is launching the first edition of its massive open online courses on Alternative Finance. The goal is to help participants navigate the world of Alternative Finance and Fintech. The course is designed to provide both basic and advanced knowledge about crowdfunding, invoice trading, VC, risk assessment, or fintech
The European Commission has launched a competition to identify Europe's world-class innovators. The public is invited to vote for their favourite among 36 nominees from across Europe who have been developing innovations through EU-funded projects. The finalists include SMEs, universities and start-ups that are delivering a diverse set of scientific and technological breakthroughs. The public can vote online until 26 August 2019 at midday (12:00 CET).
