Good news from around Europe
Climate change and its impact on society and ecosystems is a global challenge and the White Rose Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York aim to provide effective policy and solutions to these problems. Underpinned by robust research, our speakers will focus on key climate change policy areas and the work
Minerals and metals form the backbone of modern economies and are key to providing services to citizens around the globe such as housing, mobility and communications. Sustainability transitions such as the energy system transformation and megatrends such as digitization pose extra requirements on the world economy’s raw material supply. E
How do planets form? How do they evolve? What could their past tell us about our own planet’s future? An EU-funded project facilitating access to crucial data and top-flight infrastructure is placing planetary scientists in a better position to explore such questions as part of Europe’s cutting-edge contribution to space
Increasing batch processing efficiency is a key challenge for European industry. An EU-funded project has demonstrated innovative technology that improves product quality while optimising energy and raw material use in the polymer, steel and silicon industries. Powered by WPeMatico
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
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
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
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
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
The exposure this year of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in computer processors has given added urgency to the work of an EU-funded project to protect systems against ‘side-channel’ attacks. Powered by WPeMatico