Yesterday, more than 200 researchers, innovators and policymakers discussed the post-pandemic recovery of the European economy based on the EU Green Deal and green technologies in an webinar “Post-COVID Green Deal Technology-Powered Recovery in Europe”. How will COVID-19 affect the European Green Deal? What will be the process of post-pandemic recovery in the European […]

  In view of the major revision of the ERC panel structure for the 2021 and 2022 calls, the ERC Scientific Council has decided to publish the full panel structure well ahead of time. This should allow the scientific communities to familiarise themselves with the changes in preparation for the first calls under the 2021 […]

  On May 28, at the initiative of President Gitanas Nausėdos a high-level video conference was held “Strengthening Lithuanian science and innovation policies for the implementation of Horizon Europe”. The event discussed the EU and Lithuanian science and innovation policies, the experience of Lithuanian science and business participation in the EU programs, as well as […]

How COVID-19 pandemic will affect European Green Deal? Will EU recovery be sustainable and technology-powered? On these and other urgent issues we will speak with three guest speakers: – Virginijus Sinkevičius, EU Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries – Prof. Antti Vasara, President of EARTO, President & CEO of VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland […]

  The European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Pilot will work with an extra €150 million to support game-changing innovations to tackle the coronavirus crisis. The additional budget, approved by the European Commission today, will fund the best start-ups and SMEs who applied under the March cut-off. The Commission will also award special Seals of Excellence to high quality coronavirus relevant […]

  The EUvsVirus Hackathon Jury identified the best solutions to support European and global in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. In collaboration with private and public partners from Europe and beyond, we are awarding the best teams and solutions per domain as well as a winner and two runner-ups for each of the 37 […]

  Over 20,900 participants from across the EU and beyond joined the #EUvsVirus Hackathon led by the European Innovation Council this weekend to offer their time, talent and business ideas to help support Europe’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Over 2,150 solutions were submitted in areas including health and life (898), business continuity (381), remote working and education […]

  An entrepreneur from Lithuania is developing an app to connect volunteers with elderly people in need during coronavirus lockdown. Andrius Milinavičius says many organisations have databases of who is in need and a separate one of volunteers. The idea behind the app is to connect the dots. “We connect to both of the databases […]

  Today, the European Commission together with several partners launched a European COVID-19 Data Platform to enable the rapid collection and sharing of available research data. The platform, part of the ERAvsCorona Action Plan, marks another milestone in the EU’s efforts to support researchers in Europe and around the world in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Mariya Gabriel, […]

  The JRC has launched an online survey to gather feedback from researchers who received financial support from projects funded under FP5, FP6, FP7, or H2020 framework programmes. It is part of a bigger initiative to gain a better understanding of the outputs and impacts of biomedical research. It targets researchers who have participated in […]