Category: Tech

Interactive and yummy Interreg MED sessions at EURegionsWeek2019

Find your ways through the EURegionsWeek2019 to attend sessions where Interreg MED are featured with our selected guide. Many good, vibrant, interactive and delicious surprises await you: Download full MED sessions guide Download full programme of EURegionsWeek2019   Tuesday 8 14:30 – 17:00, Room VMA 1, CoR – VMA building, Rue

Research Headlines – New-generation CT scanners promise better diagnosis

An EU-funded project has made a breakthrough in medical imaging. By developing a photon-counting detector for CT scanners, higher-resolution images with lower radiation doses can be produced for accurate non-invasive screening and diagnosis of diseases. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Heart disease research offers new interpretation of the ‘spice of life’

Spices have been used in food and traditional medicine for millennia. But a new interpretation of ‘SPICES’ is coming to mitigate cardiovascular risk factors in carefully selected sites in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and Europe… the international research kind. Powered by WPeMatico

Horizon Europe – Have your say on shaping the way Horizon Europe is implemented

How should the next EU research and innovation programme be implemented, to ensure that it achieves its ambitious objectives? Where can we simplify further? How should we deal with the novel features in the new programme? What should the legal documents, processes and tools for the programme look like? Share

Research Headlines – A monitoring system for carbon dioxide emissions

A transparent system for monitoring and reporting CO2 emissions is needed to support climate-change mitigation goals. To this end, an EU-funded project is combining satellite and ground-based data with Earth system modelling to provide detailed information about worldwide anthropogenic CO2 emissions and their evolution over time. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Give us a twirl: virtual garment prototypes on the move

Dreaming up new clothes? Animation techniques shaped by EU-funded researchers can show you how your designs would turn out by simulating the behaviour of the yarn in the fabric. A spin-off is about to launch a first product based on this approach, for use in the fashion industry – potentially

Horizon Europe – Commission announces top experts to shape Horizon Europe missions

Today, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas announced the names of the experts who have been selected as members* of the mission boards to work on five major European research and innovation missions. The missions will be part of Horizon Europe, the next EU research and innovation programme

Research Headlines – Putting smartphones at the centre of online security

An EU-funded project has launched a smartphone-centric authentication platform securely connecting all online accounts with a user’s identity, putting an end to having to remember myriad PINs and passwords. This could help protect against hacking and boost confidence in online commerce amid privacy concerns. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Phages, a bacteria killer with a twis…

Putting a fresh spin on the proverb ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, EU-funded researchers have developed and tested an innovative treatment for infections caused by antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, which have developed into a major public health threat. This new weapon is a cocktail of bacteria-killing viruses called ‘phages’.

Events – ANYWHERE Final Conference – 29-30 October 2019, Brussels, Belgium

The EU-funded ANYWHERE project aims to enable PPDR (Public Protection and Disaster Relief) institutions as well as society as a whole to enhance their responsiveness in front of extreme weather-induced events and to better cope with the high social, environmental and economic impacts related. The project works are being held