Horizon 2020 Projects

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”.

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

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

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.

The European Commission is hosting an information day on ‘Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation Calls in Horizon 2020’ on 3 July in Brussels.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn will be conferred with an honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Richard Branson and the Ryan family have been honoured at this year’s Innovation Luminary Awards in Dublin.

A study has examined the evolution of components of spent nuclear fuel by comparing actual spent fuel with lab results obtained on fuel equivalents in a simulated timescale.

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has expressed its concern at amendments made by the European Parliament to the European General Data Protection Regulation.

Outgoing Irish Tanaiste and Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has admitted he is interested in becoming his country’s next European Commissioner.

The European Commission has published a series of country-specific economic policy recommendations to EU member states in order to strengthen the Union’s economic recovery.

GETREAL, an EU Innovative Medicines Initiative, will host a forum as part of the Drug Information Association 2014 50th Annual Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center, USA.

Eamon Gilmore has been linked with the role of Ireland’s next European Commissioner following the announcement of his resignation as Labour Party leader.

Trinity College Dublin has secured the first funding award in Ireland under Horizon 2020, with the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute receiving €175,000.

Northern Irish companies are being encouraged to apply for funding under Horizon 2020 and COSME, which will provide €2.3bn (£1.9bn) of additional funding for SMEs by 2020.

LERU has said it is “pleased” with the position that the European Commission has taken in its response to the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘One of Us’.

European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has said she was “delighted” to be present at the launch of the EU Marie Curie ASSISTID COFUND.