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Coronavirus: €128 million granted on research to address pressing needs and the socio-economic impact of the pandemic
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The Commission is supporting 23 new research projects with a total of €128 million to address the continuing coronavirus pandemic and its effects.
The 23 projects involve 344 research teams from 39 countries, including 32 participants from 15 countries outside of the EU. The funding will enable researchers to strengthen and adapt industrial capacity to manufacture and deploy equipment such as ventilators, to prevent and treat coronavirus, to develop medical technologies and digital tools ...
Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth said:
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This research is essential to better address various aspects of this and future pandemics, from the capacity to react more quickly to prevent contagion, to improving diagnosis and treatment, to better mitigation measures that take into account behavioural, social and economic aspects, including gender-related issues.
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