Day: December 2, 2017

Events – Horizon 2020 Info Day, Kazan – 6 December 2017, Kazan, Russia

Find out how to fund your research with partners from the EU Horizon 2020 is the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Running from 2014 until 2020 with a budget of nearly €80 billion, Horizon 2020 is the biggest multinational research programme in the world. It funds research

Events – Horizon 2020 Info Day, St. Petersburg – 8 December 2017

Find out how to fund your research with partners from the EU Horizon 2020 is the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Running from 2014 until 2020 with a budget of nearly €80 billion, Horizon 2020 is the biggest multinational research programme in the world. It funds research

Research Headlines – Developing a fast, local test for deadly Ebola

Rapid diagnosis is vital for controlling outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus. Currently this can only be done in complex laboratories and samples from infected patients are dangerous to handle and transport. Faced with this challenge, an EU and industry-funded project is developing fast, local tests to spot infection quickly

Research Headlines – HIV study finds no sign of accelerated ageing

Do people living with HIV age more quickly, despite the fact that their infection is well controlled? Concerns have emerged in recent years, and an EU-funded study was launched to look into the matter by exploring links with age-related conditions, with a specific focus on cognitive impairment. No acceleration was

Results of the LIFE mid-term evaluation

The LIFE programme is on track to be effective, efficient, relevant and complementary and to provide EU added value. Those are the main findings of the mid-term evaluation of the only EU programme exclusively dedicated to the environment, nature conservation and climate action. The European Commission’s mid-term evaluation of the

LIFEnews November 2017

This issue of LIFEnews looks forward to EU Green Week 2018. It also reports on LIFE’s latest contributions to the circular economy, notably supporting events at COP23, Ecomondo and the European Week of Waste Reduction. Powered by WPeMatico

International Day of Persons with disabilities: Statement by Commissioner Thyssen

European Commission – Statement Brussels, 1 December 2017 Enabling people with disabilities to participate fully in society is one of the major societal challenges we face – there is still a long way to go in fighting the social exclusion of people with disabilities. Powered by WPeMatico