Month: March 2019

Wearable sensors for at-home rehabilitation or detection of an irregular heartbeat… An EU-funded project is training students to transform healthcare in today’s hyperconnected world, helping them harness the power of technology to keep patients out of hospital, cut costs and even save lives. Powered by WPeMatico

The prize acknowledges and rewards the most influential and impactful project results under Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme, and its predecessor, the 7th Framework programme. Powered by WPeMatico

An EU-funded project aims to further the work of the OpenAIRE platform in supporting open access to scientific knowledge. The project is also contributing to the development of the EU’s European Open Science Cloud, which provides unlimited access to publicly funded research output in Europe. Powered by WPeMatico

Critical infrastructure, like ports, face growing threats – both physical and cybernetic. In response, EU-funded researchers have developed novel ‘hybrid’ situation-awareness tools, including visualisation techniques for detecting, preventing, and mitigating the impacts of potential attacks. Powered by WPeMatico

The European Commission is launching the first edition of the RESponsible Island Prize, which is dedicated to islands with innovative and sustainable local renewable energy production for use in electricity, heating, cooling and transport. Powered by WPeMatico

Using advances in electronics and software, a team of EU-funded researchers is developing new ways to control upper limb prosthetics. Their goal is to improve and facilitate the everyday lives of amputees. Powered by WPeMatico

Your response to a drug depends, in part, on your genetic make-up. An EU-funded project is developing a system to help doctors take into account a patient’s genotype when prescribing treatment, for safer and more effective therapy. Powered by WPeMatico