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

A Hungarian research project that aims to turn microclimatic and organic data into plant disease forecasts to end the overuse of pesticides in agriculture has won funding under Horizon 2020.

The European Commission has announced the first results of three calls under the Societal Challenges pillars that closed last week.

Many marine organisms rely on equilibrated chemical conditions and pH levels in the ocean to build their calcium-based shells and other structures, a ERC study has discovered.

The European Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella, will today attend a major European marine conference.

Several Horizon 2020 calls for project proposals will close tomorrow under the Excellent Science and the Societal Challenges pillars.

Research into the sediment-dwelling marine life in deep-sea canyons by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre may help to predict how marine ecosystems will respond to human disturbance of the ocean.

The Irish Government has announced €20m of collaborative funding for agri-food and forestry research as part of national calls.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published new research revealing that individualised diets will become the norm by 2050.

The European Commission has announced that Horizon 2020 will fund the EU’s largest marine science project.

An Irish company and research institute have together won €6m of funding from Horizon 2020 to develop a new home water testing device to check for E.coli and other water-borne diseases.

The Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia and Innovate UK are jointly investing €1m in collaborative R&D projects.

The European Commission is funding two key projects to help forecast the eruption of volcanoes.

The European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, has stressed the importance of collaborative efforts in a speech in New York City.

An EU-funded project is helping keep people and their homes safe with the creation of an early warning system for coastal storms.

A project part-funded by FP7 is foraging through the plant world for natural substitutes to synthetic ingredients currently used in cosmetics and agrochemical products, such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides.

New techniques have been developed to help harvest seaweed more efficiently.

Researchers now have evidence showing that viruses infecting algae are driving the life-and-death dynamics of algae’s blooms, even when all else stays essentially the same.

A new report says that Irish marine industry is expected to significantly benefit from Horizon 2020.

Europe’s annual crop yield will be high, according to the Joint Research Council’s latest MARS crop monitoring in Europe bulletin.