Horizon 2020 Projects

The outgoing European Commissioner for Research and Innovation has called for the Irish Prime Minister to select her Irish replacement quickly.

Some 16,000 applications have been received by the European Commission in the first calls of Horizon 2020, according to Robert-Jan Smits, director general of DG Research and Innovation.

Graphene Week 2014 has been held this week in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a focus on science, technology, and emerging applications of graphene.

Over £40,000 (~€50,016) has been invested in 18 organisations across Wales to help them forge collaborations with European partners to access Horizon 2020.

The ERCEA/A1 has organised an ERC workshop on research data management and sharing in Brussels.

Promoting entrepreneurship as a viable career path among young people was a theme in many entries received this year for the European Enterprise Promotion Awards.

For the fourth time and with its strongest ever delegation, the European Research Council attended the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The European Commission has presented a roadmap for a defence action plan.

The Polish science minister has urged scientists to sign the ‘Pact for Horizon 2020’. Universities signing the pact will commit to work towards broad participation in Horizon 2020.

At the EuroScience Open Forum, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has called Horizon 2020 “proof of member states’ immense trust in the scientific community”.

The Oasis Loss Modelling Framework, a Climate-KIC project, has been named Innovation of the Year at the London Market Awards 2014.

Computer analyses of photographs could help doctors diagnose which condition a child with a rare genetic disorder has, according to a new study.

An event exploring how firms can benefit from the audiovisual sector of Horizon 2020 has been held in Berlin, Germany.

The European Commission has announced that the Graphene FET Flagship, one of the largest-ever European research initiatives, is doubling in size.

A European Brokerage Event for the H2020 ‘Health, demographic change and wellbeing’ 2015 calls has been organised in Lyon on 4 July.

Seven transnational collaborative research projects in the field of water quality have been recommended for funding.

José Manuel Barroso will open the EuroScience Open Forum 2014 on Sunday, Europe’s leading biennial science conference and this year being held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has won the Public Sector Leaders Award at the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) Leadership Summit and Awards Gala in Ireland.

CEA-Leti has joined 14 European research centres and private companies in a Horizon 2020 project to combat MDR TB and MRSA.

Climate-KIC Switzerland, in partnership with ETH Zürich and Empa, has issued a call for companies to compete for SME vouchers worth up to CHF50,000.