Horizon 2020 Projects

The Irish capital Dublin has been awarded a grant from IBM as part of the company’s Smart Cities Challenge.

Over 400 European scientists, researchers, users, service and content providers are gathering at the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Athens, Greece to discuss tomorrow’s internet.

An app developed at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology and part-funded by the ERC has made it possible for skiers with smartphones to find people buried in the snow.

Twenty-four early stage start-ups across Europe have been given the opportunity to become part of the pan-European ecosystem of EIT ICT Labs and help their businesses get up and running.

The Irish Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, has officially opened ‘NetLabs’, a new €5m research building in Waterford.

The European Commission has launched a campaign to find and celebrate role models to encourage young women and girls to study and pursue careers in ICT.

High-tech sensors developed by the start-up ‘Beast Technologies’ will be used by the Italian national football team in their training sessions for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil this summer.

The Startup Europe Roadshow will kick off at the Poznan University of Technology, Poland, on 27 February.

The European Commission has selected DIGITALEUROPE and European Schoolnet to deliver the e-Skills for Jobs 2014 campaign.

It is anticipated that the EU’s app sector could employ as many as 4.8 million people and contribute €63bn to the EU economy by 2018, according to a new report from Brussels.

Commission President and Vice-President bring CEOs from across the global economy together at the World Economic Forum to expand a coalition delivering digital training opportunities and jobs.

Tech leaders, global corporations, universities and financial institutions have joined the European Commission in two initiatives to nurture Europe’s tech and digital start-ups.

ITEA 3, the third instalment of the EUREKA Cluster programme that supports innovative, industry-driven, pre-competitive R&D projects in the area of software-intensive systems and services, has officially been launched.

The European Commission’s Net Futures Directorate will organise an information day presenting the Future Internet topics within the first calls of Horizon 2020.

Over €15m available to help transform the EU’s entrepreneurial culture, give students the confidence, knowhow and support to set up their own businesses and to help promising web start-ups launch.

Intel Labs Europe has said it welcomes the opportunity that Horizon 2020 presents.

The ITEA 2013 awards of excellence have been announced at the annual ITEA and ARTEMIS Co-Summit.

EU offers €400,000 in prizes to the best new apps that help build smarter cities and smarter businesses.

The joint ARTEMIS-ITEA Vision 2030 paper has been unveiled, the first time that the European Commission and Eureka have presented such a joint vision.

The Commission’s vision for robotics is to secure EU academic excellence and groundbreaking research results.