Photo: Imperial College London website. Imperial and France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) are continuing to strengthen the science links between the UK and France. The two institutes – who formed a major partnership in 2022 – outlined their ambitions for furthe … | Continue reading
French president Emmanuel Macron during his speech at Sorbonne University, Paris, on April 25th, 2024. Photo credits: Emmanuel Macron / YouTube The EU needs to fundamentally change, including the way it invests in research and innovation, or it might die. That was the gist of a s … | Continue reading
New hand-sized gas analyser to detect multiple toxic gases in real-time with lasers Scientists hope to make them as common as video surveillance, with units on every lamp post Least polluted routes to work or school could be integrated into Google Maps in the future Consortium re … | Continue reading
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met British soldiers stationed at the Polish military base on April 23rd, 2024, in Warsaw, Poland. Picture by Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street The UK will spend at least 7% of a growing defence budget on R&D and military-related science and techn … | Continue reading
For a period of up to three months, researchers – including master’s degree and PhD students – affiliated with universities or other research organisations outside Portugal, will have the opportunity to carry out research activities at INESC TEC. The initiative is called Internat … | Continue reading
MEP Christian Ehler speaking at the EP Plenary session during the voting procedure on the measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act), April 25th, 2024. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union MEPs have been … | Continue reading
Professor A. (Tom) Veldkamp will remain rector magnificus of the University of Twente for the next four years. The Supervisory Board has decided on his reappointment, which takes effect on 1 October 2024. Veldkamp has been part of the UT's Executive Board since 2020, which furthe … | Continue reading
Prof.dr. Annelien Bredenoord has been appointed by the Supervisory Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) as President of the Executive Board (CvB). Bredenoord has been a member of the CvB as Rector Magnificus since September 2021 and will start in her new position as Presid … | Continue reading
Stockholm University is actively working towards an open science system, and as part of this work, the university, represented by President Astrid Söderbergh Widding, has recently signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. The declaration aims to make research … | Continue reading
On 28 March, the European University Association’s new Task and Finish Group on Artificial Intelligence held its first meeting in Brussels. Universities are moving towards a more institutional and strategic approach to artificial intelligence, with AI ethics firmly at the top of … | Continue reading
In order for Swedish life science to be able to grow and compete internationally, active collaborative arenas and actors are needed to set the ball rolling. Functions are needed for cooperation and control that drive development forward. A report shows, among other things, how st … | Continue reading
Ministerial events of the OECD Science and Technology Policy Ministerial, in Paris, France, April 23, 2024. Photo credits: Maud Bernos / OECD Science ministers from across the world have endorsed a new approach to how new technologies are regulated, warning that governments need … | Continue reading
Ministerial events of the OECD Science and Technology Policy Ministerial, in Paris, France, April 23, 2024. Photo credits: Maud Bernos / OECD Science ministers from across the world have endorsed a new approach to how new technologies are regulated, warning that governments need … | Continue reading
Elsevier, a global leader in research information and analytics, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), today announce the results of their collaboration to explore the emerging concept of a ‘4th generation university’: global universities that are fully integrated in the … | Continue reading
The latest news DON’T FORGET ABOUT RIGA: Major investors in Latvia have scored its investment climate at its lowest level in a decade. War, they say, makes business uncertain. But those on the ground in Latvia say this cooled interest masks what is gradually becoming an interesti … | Continue reading
Both in Europe and beyond, policy makers are striving to increase the sustainability and resilience of their economies and societies, in the face of a complex array of macro trends and crises. In recent years, the concept of regional innovation ecosystems (RIEs) has come to the f … | Continue reading
The Technology and Ukraine: Lessons from the front line event at the European Parliament on April 16. Photo credits: Digital Europe Investing in start-ups in Ukraine is great, but what the country needs from the EU is to incentivise big companies, scale-ups and mid-caps to build … | Continue reading
Photo credits: artmim / BigStock Key investors in Latvia are calling on the prime minister, Evika Silina, to focus on long-term planning and improving competitiveness after an assessment rated the country’s investment climate at its lowest point since studies began in 2015. The 2 … | Continue reading
Photo: Bigstock The European Commission has announced that it has opened early stage talks with Singapore about associating to Horizon Europe. As part of a push to open up the research and innovation programme to distant, “like-minded” democracies, South Korea, Canada and New Zea … | Continue reading
On the morning of April 16, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) met with President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Photo credits: Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Cambodia China's state security recruited three individuals in G … | Continue reading
MEPs of the research and industry committee during a voting procedure. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union MEPs are gathering in Strasbourg this week for the last plenary session in the current EU legislature, with many of them about to enter into campaign mode ahead of th … | Continue reading
German chancellor Olaf Scholz. Photo credits: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Flickr German chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown his weight behind an EU capital markets union to close the bloc’s innovation gap with the US by allowing far more private funding to flow into European start-ups … | Continue reading
Mathieu Michel, state secretary for digitalisation, has championed blockchain as a priority for the Belgian EU presidency. Photo credits: European Union Belgium has made blockchain one of the priorities of its EU presidency, in particular the relaunch of the European Blockchain S … | Continue reading
KTH has received funding for a new extensive project in nuclear energy technology. The platform for nuclear materials, NuMaP - Nuclear Materials Platform, receives about 40 million SEK from the Swedish Energy Agency. KTH will receive 17 million SEK. "This collaboration strengthen … | Continue reading
On 10 April 2024, the EUA Council approved the applications of 15 new members. The European University Association is pleased to welcome the following institutions as individual full members: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) University of South Brittany (France) Univ … | Continue reading
NCBR has announced a call for proposals for joint projects between scientists and entrepreneurs who wish to receive funding from Swiss Funds in the area of applied research. The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 July, with 15 million Swiss francs, which is more than PLN 6 … | Continue reading
Monica Schofield is a R&D consultant and head of a funding advice unit at Tutech, a TTO serving Hamburg University of Technology. She is also convenor of a task force on responsible innovation for the European Industrial Research Management Association of which she is an individu … | Continue reading
The consortium published a series of recommendations for how the regulatory process in the EU for approving cell and gene therapies could be sped up. | Continue reading
What effect do images have? Why do we look at them? What is our attitude towards them? Professor Annette Haug will be exploring these questions. She is the first scholar at Kiel University (CAU) to receive an ERC Advanced Grant, which is how the European Research Council (ERC) su … | Continue reading
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As part of a strategic partnership, Polytechnique Montréal and Institut polytechnique de Paris are reaffirming and expanding their teaching and research collaboration in the fields of engineering, science and management. At the 21st alternating meeting of the premiers of Québec a … | Continue reading
Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Photo credits: jiawangkun / BigStock After years of complaints about under-funding, the Canadian government announced plans for a big rise in spending on research and education – including new investments in artificial intelligence, resea … | Continue reading
TalTech Estonian Maritime Academy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Estonian Foundation CR14 to collaborate on maritime cyb … | Continue reading
Alstom, a global leader in sustainable and smart mobility, and AtkinsRéalis, a global leader in professional services and project management, dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people, signed an agreement with Polytechnique Montréal to develop a train … | Continue reading
The heightened collaboration aims to help create new pathways for business investment and promote growth through innovation. Innovate UK and the British Business Bank have further strengthened their collaboration by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU). As partners dedicat … | Continue reading
On April 5, distinguished INESC researchers Ana Paiva (INESC-ID) and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva (INOV and INESC-ID) were officially appointed as Secretaries of State in a ceremony at Ajuda Palace in Lisbon, presided over by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo … | Continue reading
On the morning of April 16, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) met with President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Photo credits: Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Cambodia Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Science|Busi … | Continue reading
European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen speaking at the European Defence & Security Summit 2024, on April 17, 2024. Photo credits: Aurore Martignoni / European Union Following the shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, defence spending and R&D has jumped up the EU’s li … | Continue reading
Berlaymont building, headquarter of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union The European Commission is adding €1.4 billion to the Horizon Europe research programme this year, in latest amendment to 2023 and 2024 spending plans. Th … | Continue reading
Former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta (left) and the European Council president Charles Michel attending the press conference on the Report on the future of the Single Market on April 17, 2024. Photo credits: European Union The European Union needs a revamped single market t … | Continue reading
The ECRD is recognised globally as the largest, patient-led rare disease policy event in which collaborative dialogue, learning and conversation takes place, forming the groundwork to shape goal-driven rare disease policies and allow for important and innovative discussions on a … | Continue reading
Michiel Scheffer, president of the European Innovation Council, during day two of Web Summit 2023 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo credits: Oliver Hardt / Flickr European investment in research and innovation is “insufficient, in both quantity and quality”, and shou … | Continue reading
Empty European Parliament hemicycle in Strasbourg. Photo credits: Mathieu Cugnot / European Union The European Parliament elections are drawing near and as Brussels prepares for a new class of MEPs, the research and innovation community is looking to see who will be returning to … | Continue reading
Maria Mrówczyńska, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Photo credits: Service of the Republic of Poland Poland’s government maintains a strong backing for its main innovation funding agency, the National Centre for Research and Development (NC … | Continue reading
The Israel Innovation Authority today unveiled a new Deep Tech “Incubator Fund” as part its “Boost for the Israeli High-Tech” initiative, with an emphasis on nurturing new startups while diversifying the tech landscape and strengthening Israel’s innovation competitiveness against … | Continue reading
Representatives of the African Union and European Union officially open the Enrich in Africa Center in Cape Town. From left to right, Principal Scientific Officer at the African Union Commission’s Department of Education, Science and Technology, Monica Ebele Idinoba; EU Ambassado … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Herman Van Rompuy / Flickr Science academies in G7 countries have told their governments to discuss nuclear arms control ahead of a summit in June, marking the first time the issue has been marked out as a scientific priority. Each year, academies from the US, Cana … | Continue reading