New research published today shows the photonics industries in Europe, the US, and Asia outpaced global GDP from 2019 to the post-pandemic period of 2022, growing at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 6.8% despite geopolitical risks significantly affecting international trad … | Continue reading
Ricardo Miguéis, head of INESC Brussels HUB. It’s an increasingly binary world, where two opposites are presented as the only options available - and this lack of nuance is now infecting research and innovation policy. Take for instance: Research Infrastructures versus Technolog … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Flickr Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published the costs of its $36 million tuberculosis trial and wants other research funders to follow suit, in a bid to foster transparency around drug development. It says it is the first time detailed costs of an individua … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Flickr Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published itemised costs of a $36 million trial it conducted comparing different drug combinations for treating tuberculosis and wants others to follow suit, in a bid to foster transparency around the cost of clinical resea … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Fraunhofer IOF One of the world’s leading applied research organisations says the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is “overly complex, costly and non-transparent” and should be “discontinued”. In a scathing paper, Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellsch … | Continue reading
Photo credits: fdecomite / Flickr Technology transfer and innovation are central themes of Germany’s traffic light government coalition. However, the scientific institutions responsible for technology transfer suffer from insufficient resources and a lack of appreciation. Further … | Continue reading
A €104 million investment in scientific research across Ireland is being announced today by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O’Donovan TD, and Minister for Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD. T … | Continue reading
Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics and scientific publishing, is pleased to announce an innovative partnership with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) with a focus on open access. The read and publish transformative agreement, effective … | Continue reading
A nasal vaccine against pertussis that was tested using a model and cell bank created by the PERISCOPE project is entering the final phases of clinical trials. | Continue reading
This upgrade, part of the Spanish government's Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024, will increase MareNostrum 5's processing capacity by almost 50%, over 450 petaflops, or the ability to perform up to 450,000 trillion operations per second. Another of the main objectives of the … | Continue reading
Imperial College London and Brazil’s University of São Paulo (USP) have signed a new five-year partnership in research and education. Imperial – a world top ten university – have signed an agreement with Brazil’s top ranked university, USP, that will begin a new phase of closer c … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Maksim Labkouski / BigStock In a flurry of position papers released over the past few months, research lobbies have been calling for a €200 billion budget for FP10. Now, some of those organisations have teamed up to make their requests louder and stronger. “We must … | Continue reading
Anna Tenhunen-Lunkka, senior scientist and project manager at VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland. Assemble fourteen project partners, draft seven work packages, throw in a couple million euros, and produce science. Coordinating a big collaborative EU research project is no … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The EU recognises the role of young researchers in shaping the future research and innovation landscape and throughout the years policymakers have pushed for better career paths and put in place specific funding programmes in support of this. One … | Continue reading
Photo credits: weyo / BigStock Swiss and EU negotiators are aiming to reach agreement on Horizon Europe association in the summer, which should allow full access to the programme for calls in 2025, but will not join the Copernicus earth monitoring project due to high costs. Switz … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Auburn University / Flickr The US has been leading global development of artificial intelligence – but which universities are biggest in the sciences underlying the field? A Science|Business analysis of grants by the US National Science Foundation ranks Carnegie Me … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Web Summit / Flickr France is in line for €15 billion in industry investments in AI, pharmaceuticals and quantum, as the country’s seventh Choose France summit draws in commitments from around the world. Companies from outside France have pledged to invest €15 bill … | Continue reading
The Berlaymont Building. Photo credits: Dati Bendo / European Commission The European Commission has opened Horizon Europe calls for transport and mobility policy-driven projects worth €163.5 million. There are two sets of calls, both open until 5 September. The first batch of 13 … | Continue reading
As a continuation of the previous call for proposals with similar objectives, the Science Patronage programme will be re-launched with a budget of HUF 1 billion this year to promote the visibility of Hungarian scientific achievements and to help the Hungarian research community t … | Continue reading
Would it be possible to build a refinery that is completely fossil-free, and thereby significantly contributing to a carbon-neutral society by as early as 2050? According to two chemists from Utrecht University it is. In a highly visionary Nature article, they present a roadmap i … | Continue reading
Sweden has the conditions to take big, fast steps in AI development. But in order to succeed, clear direction from the government and visionary leadership throughout society is needed. The time is now, and it is urgent. That's what some of Sweden's leading AI experts say to Vinno … | Continue reading
Ryanair, Europe’s no. 1 airline, announced today the extension to the end of the decade and made a further €2.5 m donation (€4 m total) to fund the Ryanair Sustainable Aviation Research Centre. Underpinned by an initial €1.5m donation from Ryanair, Research at the Ryanair Sustain … | Continue reading
Industry leaders, researchers and policymakers will debate the future of light technologies, including technological sovereignty and the need for resilient supply chains in Europe, at this year’s Photonics Partnership Annual Meeting. The future direction of light technologies wor … | Continue reading
The latest news TWENTY YEARS OF EU IN 10 GRAPHS: Research funding, innovation performance, scientific papers, international cooperation… We look at what has changed in the EU’s 2004 members. We also cast our eyes to the future. “The next 20 years will be different and we’ll have … | Continue reading
Photo credits: astropix / BigStock EIT Health Scandinavia has launched a new online hub to ease access to European biobanks and health data registries for researchers, and to share expertise on how to exploit these resources. After adopting plans for the European Health Data Spac … | Continue reading
Photo credits: NiroDesign / BigStock Presidents of national academies of science in all EU member states signed a joint statement on Monday, urging the incoming cohort of MEPs to secure EU’s global leadership in science and innovation and to promote open science. This is the firs … | Continue reading
Dragoș Tudorache, Romanian MEP and chair of the European Parliament’s committee on AI. Photo: European Parliament Without easier access to capital, European AI companies will forever rely on the vast computing resources of entrenched US tech giants, the outgoing MEP responsible f … | Continue reading
Nicole Grobert (left), chair of the group of chief scientific advisers to the European Commission and professor of nanomaterials at Oxford University, Maarja Kruusmaa (center), member of the group and professor of biorobotics at Tallinn University of Technology, and Alberto Mello … | Continue reading
Latvia wants the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) to be scrapped in FP10, the EU’s next framework programme for research and innovation, according to a government position paper published today. The Latvian government said funding instruments in FP10 should be … | Continue reading
NOrdic CryOSphere Digital Twin (NOCOS DT) develops computational sea ice modelling tools that contribute to Destination Earth's Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin. Destination Earth is a flagship initiative of the European Commission to develop a highly-accurate digital model … | Continue reading
ECMWF, ESA and EUMETSAT implement the Destination Earth initiative under the leadership of DG Connect and in collaboration with over 100 institutions throughout Europe. Visualizations created in Destination Earth allow us to look at our planet in ways we never thought before, as … | Continue reading
In January 2024, the European Commission published a White Paper on options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual-use potential. In response to the Commission’s public consultation on the White Paper, the European University Associati … | Continue reading
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology's Regional Innovation Scheme is active in 22 countries and regions and aims to close Europe's innovation gap. Photo: EIT The Regional Innovation Scheme has had some success in closing Europe’s innovation gap, but ten years after … | Continue reading
The Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (CPSBB) was established in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 2015 with the help of the Horizon 2020 Teaming project, PlantaSYST. Photo: CPSBB Teaming for Excellence, which is designed to support the creation or upgrading of centres of exc … | Continue reading
UP Catalyst, one of the start-ups supported by the SmartCap Green Fund, is scaling up to produce tonnes of graphite from carbon dioxide. Photo: UP Catalyst Estonia is using €100 million from the NextGenerationEU recovery fund to bolster venture capital for green technology start- … | Continue reading
The European Parliament commemorates the 20th anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement. Photo: Alain Rolland / European Union May 2024 marks 20 years since the EU’s largest single enlargement, when 10 countries joined. This opened a new chapter for these member states, with most of … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union Horizon Europe’s roll out of lump sum funding is gathering speed, with €1.3 billion awarded in the new, less reporting-heavy way by the end of 2023, according to the European Commission. Lump sums were introduced to the Horizon Europe research progra … | Continue reading
Photo by Robert Robaszewski These questions are answered by Prof. Carsten Carlberg, ERA Chair in the WELCOME2 project at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in his paper Vitamin D in the Context of Evolution, which has appeare … | Continue reading
The Honourable Soraya Martinez Ferrada, minister of Tourism and minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, visited Polytechnique Montréal today to announce the cross-Canada results of Stage 2 of the Canada Biomedical Research Fun … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union / Flickr The European Commission is about to publish the full Horizon Europe Annotated Grant Agreement (AGA) this month, after several years of delay. “The (re)publication of a fully-fledged corporate AGA is imminent,” a Commission spokeswoman told S … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Zerbor / BigStock In March this year, South Korea struck a deal to become the first Asian country – other than Türkiye – to associate to Horizon Europe. It’s a big leap east for the €95.5 billion EU research and innovation programme, and the deal will officially li … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union / Flickr The European Commission is about to publish the full Horizon Europe Annotated Grant Agreement (AGA) this month, after several years of delay. “The (re)publication of a fully-fledged corporate AGA is imminent,” a Commission spokeswoman told S … | Continue reading
With their new $300 million global health programme announced 6 May, the Gates, Wellcome and Novo Nordisk foundations bring together three very different funding networks. A Science|Business analysis shows how they operate, and who benefits. Our review of their 2023 awards shows … | Continue reading
In December 2019 the Commission launched the European Green Deal, a set of initiatives intended to put the EU on the path towards the green transition, with the ultimate goal of reaching climate neutrality by 2050. Although this was backed up by a flurry of climate regulations, p … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Zerbor / BigStock In March this year, South Korea struck a deal to become the first Asian country – other than Türkiye – to associate to Horizon Europe. It’s a big leap east for the €95.5 billion EU research and innovation programme, and the deal will officially li … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union Horizon Europe’s roll out of lump sum funding is gathering speed, with €1.3 billion awarded in the new, less reporting-heavy way by the end of 2023, according to the European Commission. Lump sums were introduced to the Horizon Europe research progra … | Continue reading
Photo credits: BigStock The three largest research foundations in the world have announced a new partnership to support research and development into major global health challenges that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest communities. The Danish Novo Nordisk Foundation, … | Continue reading
Bright Renewables and HyGear, both part of the HoSt Group, together with the University of Twente, are set to construct Benelux's first E-Methanol system. Their joint project, "Towards Acceleration and Demonstration of E-Methanol" (TANDEM), received a total of nearly €4 million s … | Continue reading