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Horizon 2020 STUNNING project aims at accelerating the adoption and innovative refurbishment packages and business models for attractive, energy-efficient building innovations. Powered by WPeMatico
The final Mobilitas result is the Sustainable Mobility Handbook in which the results of all seven projects of the MED Urban Transport Community are presented. The manual highlights the importance of mobility issues for the whole Mediterranean area. The Handbook is downloadable for free at the link: https://www.riminiventure.it/pubblicazioni/ View also
The EU-funded WATERSPOUTT project’s partners in Malawi are designing and testing an innovative solar-ceramic water filtration system capable of providing local communities with a reliable source of clean water at the household level. Powered by WPeMatico
All-too-often it takes global disasters or looming events to bring countries together for a common cause. Climate change is perhaps the biggest ‘event’ of this kind, an existential threat driving international research cooperation in a new sustainable solution called solar-thermal electricity (STE). But it takes leadership to forge such a
This conference will bring together relevant stakeholders including researchers, policy makers and regulators to identify and discuss the main scientific challenges for harvesting and enhancing the benefits of a sound environment for human health and the scientific challenges for solutions to overcome environmental threats to human health. The main outcome
The European Commission’s Directorates-General for Research and Innovation (RTD) and for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT) are hosting the workshop ‘Cross-border Innovation Procurement in Health: EU funding opportunities & best practices’. Designing, procuring and deploying innovative solutions is an important component of every public sector modernisation strategy, especially in
A smart robotic exoskeleton developed by an EU-funded project will help prevent lower back pain and provide relief to millions of people who suffer from the debilitating condition, one of the main causes of worker absenteeism worldwide. Powered by WPeMatico
High-level nuclear waste includes long-lived and high-radiotoxic radionuclides. An EU-funded project helps to solve this issue by carrying out the research needed to build a facility that is capable of splitting material with long radioactive half-lives into radionuclide products with 1 000 times shorter half-lives. Powered by WPeMatico
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As climate change worsens, natural disasters like forest fires are becoming more destructive. Firefighters and other emergency service providers often feel outmatched. An EU-funded project is helping these first responders improve their coordination and equipment to keep Europeans safe. Powered by WPeMatico