Horizon 2020 Projects

A new €7.7m customer innovation centre has been opened by European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn in Ireland.

The president of the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes, Professor Andrew Boulton, says that Horizon 2020 will be a major boost to health research in Europe.

Professor Andrew Boulton, president of the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes, details the role of the organisation and the importance of partnerships to maintain research investment.

A device that offers paralysed individuals, including those in the most severe ‘locked-in’ state, better control and communication has been developed and improved following funding by the European Research Council.

The wide variation in life expectancy and infant mortality historically found between EU member states is narrowing, according to a report published by the European Commission.

A new species of fungus that eats amphibians’ skin has ravaged the fire salamander population in the Netherlands, bringing it close to regional extinction.

A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has shown that neurons in our brain ‘mirror’ the space near others, just as if this was the space near ourselves.

EU-funded researchers are launching a new five-year project to find a vaccine against ticks to prevent them transmitting the diseases they carry to people they bite.

British biopharmaceutical company ValiRx and Finnish pharmaceutical research organisation Pharmatest Services have been awarded a second grant from Eurostars. The new funding is worth €1.6m.

Scientists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences have successfully developed complex human brain tissue has been successfully developed in a 3D culture system.

Professor Yigal Elad of the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel outlines the benefits of biochar and how the substance could help mitigate the effects of climate change.

A cognitive ageing scientist from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) has been awarded an ERC grant to investigate spatial orientation changes in elderly humans.

Physical dominance can give some wild animals the edge over their sexual rivals – but their weaker competitors have some breeding advantages too, a new study suggests.

A university lecturer has been awarded a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to study the development of animated films.

Martin Lidegaard, the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building, outlines the country’s ambitions to maintain its lead in green energy and the importance of tackling climate change in Horizon 2020.

The European Commission has launched a consultation on research and innovation in the European railway industry during Horizon 2020 and to help achieve a Single European Railway Area.

The European Commission has launched ALICE, a new platform aimed at increasing the competitiveness in Europe’s logistics industry.

Chinese and Swedish scientists have discovered a link between the number of fatalities from cardiovascular disease and brown fat.

A UK researcher who has won a European Research Council grant is set to investigate how coral can help reduce the effects of cancer.

Chemists have developed a quick, cost effective method of detecting the presence of viruses, capable of identifying hundreds of different proteins in tiny samples.