Day: December 7, 2018

Health – Commission establishes €100 million partnership to boost research into rare diseases

Millions of Europeans suffering from one of the many rare diseases will have a new hope for improved diagnostics and better treatments and care, resulting in enhanced quality of life. This is thanks to a new research partnership launched by the European Commission. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Boosting our defence against deadly Klebsiella pneumoniae

With a better understanding of how Klebsiella Pneumoniae evades our body’s immune system, researchers with the EU-funded U-KARE project are developing new treatments based on boosting our defences against the potentially deadly disease. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – New insight into how the brain develops

Humankind has always had a fascination with the brain – how it develops, how it works and how things can go wrong. By tracking a neuron’s path through the brain, neuroscientists with the EU-funded MOMECODE project have given us new insight into how the brain develops. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Demystifying immunity in the bladder

The EU-funded UPECBCG project set out to study the bladder’s immune system, with the aim of advancing our understanding of UTI and bladder cancer to improve treatment of these diseases. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Uncovering new information on the rise of the dinosaurs

By conducting field-work and re-examining museum collections, the EU-funded ARCHOSAUR RISE project has shed new light on how archosaurs and such relatives as the dinosaurs diversified and rose to dominance. Powered by WPeMatico

New Forward-Looking Cooperation Projects call to be published soon

The Forward-Looking Cooperation Action under Erasmus+ Programme has been launched in 2014 with the aim to finance projects aiming at identifying, testing, developing or assessing innovative policy approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed and improving education and training systems.  They should be led and implemented by high profile

Progress on social initiatives of the Juncker Commission

The European Commission has taken concrete initiatives to put the 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights into practice at European level. Powered by WPeMatico

European Labour Authority, fight against occupational cancer, access to social protection: Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Thyssen welcome Member States’ agreements

Commission – Statement European Brussels, 6 December 2018 At the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council today, Member States reached a general approach on both the European Labour Authority and the third revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive. Powered by WPeMatico