Tag: innovation

Events – Foodborne pathogens: from farm to pharmacy – 26 April 2018, Kinsale, Ireland

The H2020 MSCA ETN Network List_MAPS welcomes you to its symposium which will be held in the historic town of Kinsale, on the south coast of Ireland on Thrusday 26th April 2018. Contamination of foodstuff by pathogenic microorganisms is a major safety issue and a burden to the food industry.

Events – Successful R&I in Europe 2018 – 9th European Networking Event – 15-16 March 2018, Düsseldorf, Germany

For the ninth time, the conference invites researchers and entrepreneurs from North Rhine-Westphalia and regions in Europe to find new European Research & Innovation (R&I) partners for Horizon 2020 projects. The series of events has been a great success with over 2300 participants since 2009. The event addresses especially universities

Research Headlines – New software creates opportunities for TWIP steel

EU-funded researchers have successfully demonstrated that a particular class of steel offers greater flexibility and strength for automotive part manufacturing. Using cutting-edge software analysis that is now commercially available, the project hopes to encourage the rollout of industrial-scale production of this promising material. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Intelligent technology for farms of the future

Smart technology can greatly benefit farms but selecting and deploying it can be a daunting process. An EU-funded network is stimulating the uptake of ICT-backed innovation that can help make agriculture more productive, resource efficient and profitable. Powered by WPeMatico

European Innovation Council – Jury of top experts to pick market-creating innovations for EU funding

The European Commission today unveiled the names of 85 investment and innovation experts from 26 countries who will select the best innovations for funding under Phase 2 of the SME Instrument. Selection will now be based on both paper applications and face-to-face interviews. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Mapping the galaxy: To boldly go where no data miners have gone before

The biggest archive of celestial objects ever created is being made accessible to researchers and space enthusiasts for probing the depths of the Milky Way, assisted by advanced data mining and analysis tools developed by an EU-funded project. Powered by WPeMatico

Research Headlines – Rare diseases, precious data: global platform connects researchers

Most rare diseases are linked to specificities of the patients’ genes – but what these are, exactly, remains to be determined for the vast majority of these illnesses. Tackling this challenge, an EU-funded platform is helping to generate answers from as few as two known cases by enabling scientists to

Research Headlines – Personality, immunity and the bumblebee

Good news for particularly busy bumblebees: you’re not putting your immune systems at risk with all that hard work. EU-funded research has established that foraging motivation and other traits vary among individuals and colonies of the species, but that these differences don’t seem to affect their ability to fend off

Events – Olea Research & Innovation devlopment day – 25 January 2018, Jaén, Spain

The UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN (Spain) is located in the province of Jaén (Andalusian Region), which is the main producer of olive oil in the world. After the success of the networking event held in Brussels on 29th June 2017 (http://bit.ly/2ykNKD4) and in order to foster the joint participation of researchers,

Events – Message from Alliance4Life – 30 January 2018, Brussels, Belgium

We are pleased to invite you to the kick-off meeting of the strategic project of ten leading life science institutions from nine EU-13 countries. The main objective of the event is to present Alliance4Life, a bottom-up initiative aimed at closing the divide in European health research and innovation. Alliance4Life intends