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

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.

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

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.

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.

The German capital is getting ready for the Co-summit 2015.

Mobile location technology and services company Rx Networks has announced that it will, along with four European industry leaders, be developing a European-based location service.

A UK university is benefitting from Horizon 2020 funding with the aim of equipping SMEs with smart technologies as well as bringing new products to market.

An event on space research in the EU’s research and innovation framework programme will take place tomorrow in South Africa.

A €3.6m project aimed at improving cloud networking and application deployment has accepted a new member to its research consortium.

A composites manufacturing research project involving Airbus has received €5m in funding from Horizon 2020.

Small and medium-sized enterprises in Estonia will get easier access to risk capital for financing innovation activities thanks to the new EU-backed loan guarantee facility under Horizon 2020.

An event focusing on how tech transfer can benefit the adoption of new advanced and clean manufacturing technologies by industry has been announced by the Joint Research Centre (JRC).

The UK’s largest mobile phone company has announced a £1.5bn (~€2bn) investment designed to tackle the UK’s changing digital infrastructure needs.

The European Commission has released the initial results of three contractual public private partnership (cPPP) Horizon 2020 calls that closed last week.

The Board of the European Investment Bank (EIB) meeting has approved €4.8bn of new loans to support investment by SMEs and mid-cap companies across Europe.

A genetic mechanism that could stop the spread of a ‘devastating’ disease threatening wheat crops has been identified by scientists working at Durham University.

Researchers from across Europe have won a €4m grant from Horizon 2020 to develop the first market-ready bell pepper harvester.

Professor Anne Glover has said that the scientific consensus is that GM crops are safe, despite being accused by NGOs of presenting “one-sided, partial opinions” in the debate.