The work programme for 2016-2017 will continue to support eGovernment/ICT-enabled, public sector, innovation-related activities through the following topics, under "Europe in a changing world - Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies" (Societal Challenge 6).
Latest news on Future and Emerging Technologies research, funding opportunities, latest project news, reporting on workshops & conferences and future events.
This webinar will explain the role of standardization in innovation, and provide you with tools and tips on how to correctly address standards in your project proposal.
It will include concrete case studies of successful research projects which have addressed standardization.
A detailed programme will be added closer to the date.
At the latest FLAG-ERA Project Workshop that took place from 28 to 30 September 2015 in Madrid, the General Assembly of FLAG-ERA voted in favour of accepting the Academy of Finland (AKA) as a new member. .
Latest news on Future and Emerging Technologies research: funding opportunities, latest Project news, reporting on workshops & conferences, future events.
The European Commission will invest almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme, following a new work programme for 2016-17 adopted on 13 October. The work programme is now available on the participant portal.
Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation said: "Research and innovation are the engines of Europe's progress and vital to addressing today's new pressing challenges like immigration, climate change, clean energy and healthy societies. Over the next two years, €16 billion from Horizon 2020 will support Europe's top scientific efforts, making the difference to citizens' lives."
On 25 September, the Commission launched an online survey to gather opinions from stakeholders on the impact of the simplification measures introduced in Horizon 2020, and to ask for new ideas on future simplification.
Climate change knows no boundaries. Its impacts are being felt everywhere, including in the Amazon River basin in South America. An EU-funded partnership between European and Brazilian researchers is studying the underlying mechanisms with a view to drawing up environmental and social mitigation policies.
Flagship-affiliated physicists from RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich together with colleagues in Japan devised a method for peeling graphene flakes from a CVD substrate with the help of intermolecular forces.
Researchers with Europe’s Graphene Flagship have demonstrated superconducting electric currents in the two-dimensional material graphene that bounce between sheet edges without scattering. This first direct observation of the ballistic mirroring of electron waves in a 2d system with supercurrents could lead to the use of graphene-based Josephson junctions in applications such as advanced digital logic circuits, ultrasensitive magnetometers and voltmeters.
Business Insider UK compiled a list of 50 scientists from across the globe who are changing the world for the better. Katrin Amunts, working at Jülich Research Centre (DE) has been nominated for her work on the "BigBrain", which aims to create a 3D atlas of the human brain and should lead to unprecedented insights into the construction and organization of the brain and how it drives our behavior. She is co-leader of the Strategic Human Brain Data subproject.
Graphene Flagship researchers have developed an optical fibre laser that emits pulses with durations equivalent to just a few wavelengths of the light used. This fastest ever laser based on graphene will be ideal for use in ultrafast spectroscopy, and in surgical lasers that avoid heat damage to living tissue.
The ISC High Performance is the world's oldest High Performance Computing (HPC) community event, presenting the latest HPC technological developments and their application in research and commercial environments. This year the conference celebrated its 30th anniversary with about 2800 participants from 56 countries ( July 12 to July 16, 2015).
By 1 December 2014 the first 100 calls had closed. What can we tell about the popularity of the programme, the success of SMEs, the degree to which the programme has attracted newcomers - both as participants and as expert evaluators - the proportion of women experts and the speed with which contracts have been signed? See this new page to find out more!
Latest news on Future and Emerging Technologies research: funding opportunities, latest Project news, reporting on workshops & conferences, future events.
Latest news on Future and Emerging Technologies research: funding opportunities, latest Project news, reporting on workshops & conferences, future events.
Launched in October 2013,the EU funded Graphene Flagship has now been sailing for a little over a year. Much has been achieved in this short time, yet we are only a tenth of the way on a voyage that we hope will take graphene and related materials from academic laboratories into society. The following pages highlight some of the flagship’s science and technology achievements to date.
"From Nobel Prize to technology, innovation and industrial competitiveness" What is so special about graphene and other 2D materials? Will the Graphene Flagship allow Europe to take the driving seat in these technologies, and turn them into growth and jobs? A Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) workshop in the European Parliament is going to explore such questions.
The Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) bureau of the European Parliament explored Graphene and other 2D materials in a workshop called "From Nobel Prize to technology, innovation and industrial competitiveness. Questions raised during the workshop ranged from: " why are these materials so special?" to "will the Graphene Flagship project allow Europe to take the driving seat in these technologies, and turn them into growth and jobs?".
