The European Commission has announced the results of the first annual review into the Graphene Flagship, praising the FET project as having made ‘good scientific and technical progress over its first year of activities’.

Queen Mary University of London is celebrating success after receiving funding to develop and validate an early-stage cardiovascular disease detection platform using integrated silicon photonics.

An Italian research centre has secured funding from Horizon 2020 for an ICT project.

The ERC has announced the 372 winning researchers of its 2014 Consolidator Grant competition, securing €713m of Horizon 2020 funding.

The European Commission has opened its call for research proposals for the €1m ‘Horizon Prize for Better Use of Antibiotics’.

The European University Association has welcomed a draft European Parliamentary report on the proposed European Fund for Strategic Investments.

A research project focusing on the standardisation and development of assays for the assessment of influenza vaccine correlates of protection has begun work.

Horizon 2020 calls are still being heavily oversubscribed to following the flash results of a Societal Challenge and JTI call.

The Council of the European Union has agreed its negotiating stance on a proposed regulation for the EFSI, allowing the Latvian Council Presidency to start negotiations with the European Parliament.

The ARTEMIS Industry Association on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems, and ITEA 3 Co-summit 2015 in Berlin, Germany, has opened, focusing on the importance of software innovation.

SSAB has been selected to develop Europe’s next generation of bulk wagons in an international project part funded by Horizon 2020.

A new 42-month research and development project has been launched to help provide an opportunity to tap into the wealth of unexploited European mineral resources

Two European commissioners are highlighting the importance of tackling the issue of ageing at a major conference in Brussels.

The European University Association (EUA) has published an analysis of the EU Investment Plan’s potential impact on universities.

Computer scientists at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, are leading a new Horizon 2020 research project to develop new ways to build and maintain IT systems that use Big Data on the web.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced its support for the rehabilitation of railway tracks with a loan of €50m.

A research team has mapped the entire African continent south of the Sahara for geographical changes, and has discovered that many areas receive drastically different amounts of rainfall today compared to just ten years ago.

The Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) has selected Markku Markkula as its new vice-chair.

EU member states have concluded discussion on eliminating obstacles to the development of the Single Market and developing a data-driven economy at this week’s Competitiveness Council.

KIC InnoEnergy has announced the results of its 2014 sustainable energy innovation project support programme, resulting in a €80m investment in high potential project consortia.