Tag: innovation

Research Headlines – Big data sheds more light on dark matter

EU-funded researchers have helped generate the most accurate map to date of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 80 % of the universe. The innovative big-data technologies they used will have a significant impact on fields as diverse as astrophysics and biomedical imaging. Powered by WPeMatico

Events – International Brokerage Event – 9 October 2019

Horizon 2020 for Circular Economy & Transforming Industry This brokerage event is co-organised by the EU-funded projects NCPs CaRE and NMP Team with support from BioHorizon, C-ENERGY, N4Society and Enterprise Europe Network – Sector Group Environment. The event is built also on the experience from common action of UK, DE

Research Headlines – Floating privacy and security in the clouds

As critical government services such as health care move online, it is essential to ensure your personal data is protected and easily managed. EU-funded researchers have come up with a novel solution that allows you to share and protect your personal details in a virtual wallet on the cloud –

Research Headlines – A safe source of drinking water for rural Malawi

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

Research Headlines – Europe stands up to lead the solar-thermal electricity way

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

Events – Cross-border Innovation Procurement in Health: EU funding opportunities & best practices – 17 October 2019, Brussels

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

Events – Europe That Protects: Safeguarding Our Planet, Safeguarding Our Health – 3-4 December 2019, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Mannerheimintie 166, Helsinki, Finland

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

Research Headlines – Exoskeleton suit provides smart solution to lower back pain

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

Research Headlines – Reactor design to make nuclear waste less radioactive

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