The European Commission today announced how it will spend the last and biggest annual tranche – €11 billion – of the EU research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020 in the final year of the programme. Horizon 2020, the EU’s €77 billion research and innovation funding programme for the period 2014-2020, supports scientific excellence […]
The European Commission has today announced the higher education institutions from all over Europe that will be part of the first “European Universities” alliances. They will enhance the quality and attractiveness of European higher education and boost cooperation between institutions, their students and staff. Out of 54 applications received, 17 European Universities involving 114 higher education institutions from 24 Member […]
The Commission has today proposed an EU budget of €168.3 billion for 2020 for a more competitive European economy, and for solidarity and security in the EU and beyond. This budget is the seventh and last one under the current 2014-2020 long-term EU budget and operates within the limitations set therein. It is designed […]
Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe (BEV-E), a new €100 million investment fund was established by the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and Breakthrough Energy Ventures during the Fourth Mission Innovation Ministerial meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The fund will help develop innovative European companies and bring radically new clean energy technologies to the market. It will […]
The European Commission has today appointed Professor Mauro Ferrari as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC), responsible for funding investigator-driven frontier scientific research in Europe. Professor Ferrari will take up his new role as of 1 January 2020, when the mandate of current President Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon ends. The new President joins […]
Lithuanian scientists are working on a laser-based technology to establish a novel way of blood examination without a regular needle poke. The innovation is scheduled to be publicly accessible in 1 or 2 years, thus facilitating daily routines of patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases. It will enable a faster detection of acute diseases […]
The European Parliament adopts partial agreements on 2021-2027 priorities on research, space and digital Europe for 2021 – 2027. Today the European Parliament voted on a number of files related to the EU’s long-term budget (2021-2027 multiannual financial framework – MFF) confirming partial agreements with EU Member States on the scope and priorities for […]
Brussels, 17 April 2019 The European Parliament endorsed today the provisional agreement reached by the co-legislators on Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for the next budget period from 2021 to 2027. The European Commission presented its proposal for Horizon Europe in June 2018. Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, […]
The Commission has recently opened a Call for Expression of Interest for serving on the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot Advisory Group. This group will be composed of 15 to 20 high level experts from various domains of Europe’s innovation ecosystem. It thus aims to include also people from the upstream R&I eco-system. Their participation […]
EDA launched ‘IdentiFunding’, an online tool which allows defence-interested stakeholders (industry – including SMEs, Ministries of Defence, research and technology entities, universities, etc.) to quickly and easily identify existing EU funding schemes available for defence-related projects. The new application, which is accessible via EDA’s European Funding Gateway for Defence and the SME corner, performs an instant scan […]