Horizon 2020 Projects

The European Commission has launched the Sustainable Industry Low Carbon II (SILC II) initiative with a budget of €20m under Horizon 2020.

Ministers attending the Union for the Mediterranean meeting in Athens, Greece, issued a declaration of their commitment to tackle the growing climate and environmental challenges.

Fifteen pioneering inventors and teams have been named as finalists for the European Inventor Award 2014, presented by the European Patent Office at a gala ceremony.

Climate-KIC is hosting the third European Biorefinery Training School organised under the Climate-KIC’s European wide umbrella between 7-10 July in Budapest.

The European Commission has presented an action plan for innovation in the Blue Economy to help use ocean resources sustainably and drive growth and jobs in Europe.

The renewed Active and Assisted Living Research and Development Joint Programme will receive more than €700m over seven years under the newly adopted IIP.

The Commission is proposing to strengthen efforts to better detect explosives and dangerous materials, as well as to intensify research and build awareness amongst member states.

The JRC and its partners in the Justice Enterprise Consortium have launched a fresh investigation into the potential development of fuels from renewable sources.

Climate-KIC start-up Climeworks has announced the closing of its series B financing round, amounting to CHF3m (€2.46m).

KIC InnoEnergy has supported the foundation of GRADIS (Graph Augmented Distributed Intelligent Systems) in order to work on the development of a lighting system using LED lamps.

A research project called SOLAR-JET, funded by FP7, has produced the world’s first ‘solar’ jet fuel from water and carbon dioxide (CO2).

Five new Climate-KIC projects have been given the green light via the Climate Market Accelerator (CMA) programme.

Scientists have discovered a new vulnerable site on HIV that antibodies can attack to prevent infection from a broad range of the virus’ many variants.

The European Research Council, University College London (UCL) and HR Wallingford, a specialist hydraulic research consultancy, are collaborating to construct the largest tsunami simulator in Europe

Climate-KIC France and Ecosys Group will team up to accelerate the development of the first eight shortlisted Climate start-ups in the Cleantech Open France competition.

The Climate-KIC Accelerator is now open for new ideas and applicants in the Netherlands. Accepted entrepreneurs will begin stage 1 – Fundamentals.

The European Parliament has approved the second Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2), a research programme run jointly by the European Commission and the pharmaceutical industry.

A Horizon 2020 information day will be held on 14 May in Brussels. The day and brokerage event will allow participants to find project partners for the ‘Science with and for Society’ calls in the framework programme.

Students from Belgium, Germany and Italy have been awarded the top prizes in a Europe-wide contest to find great transport projects among young researchers.

Climate change innovators working across Europe with Climate-KIC have responded to the third report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).