Horizon 2020 Projects

A one-day event has been organised for 29 April in Thessaloniki, Greece, to help attendees find out about the support available from the EU to help boost digital innovation.

A specially adapted bus will visit university campuses in 29 European cities in 22 countries to raise awareness of various EURAXESS services.

The UK’s Technology Strategy Board has launched a new website that gives users access to the latest national innovative research projects.

The Committee of Permanent Representatives has endorsed an agreement between the Council and Parliament on new public and private partnerships.

Welsh Government Finance Minister Jane Hutt has visited the site of Swansea University’s £450m Bay Campus to see how EU funds are helping boost investment and create jobs.

Barcelona, Spain, Grenoble, France, and Groningen, the Netherlands, have been announced as the three finalists for the first European Capital of Innovation award, or iCapital.

On the second day of the Competitiveness Council Meeting, the Council is holding a debate on the research and innovation aspects of the 2014 Annual Growth Survey.

Members of the Competitiveness Council have concluded their first day of talks in Brussels.

The Union for the Mediterranean has held its ninth ministerial meeting on Euro-Mediterranean industrial co-operation.

The indicative programme for the latest meeting of the Competitiveness Council on 20-21 February has been released.

European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani has travelled to Wallonia in Belgium to help SMEs emerge from the downturn and participate in the next economic growth cycle.

A meeting of the Council of the European Union’s Competitiveness Council will take place on 20 and 21 February in Brussels.

Switzerland could be barred from participating in Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+ after Swiss voters narrowly agreed to limit the number of immigrants to the country

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has urged Malta to exploit the EU’s Structural Funds, in addition to the new framework programme.

Egypt has become the latest international partner to launch Horizon 2020.

Eleven universities and technical institutes in less developed regions of Europe are to receive up to €2.4m each in EU funding to boost their research capacity.

The national Federal Ministry of Education and Research has hosted the launch event of Horizon 2020 in Germany.

The launch of Horizon 2020 has taken place in Malta, where European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn delivered the keynote address.

DG Research & Innovation (DG RTD) will host a free interactive information event on Horizon 2020 for SMEs in Brussels on 3 March.

The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has been set up by the European Commission to manage several EU programmes on its behalf.