Good news from around Europe
White Rose Brussels will be holding a robotics event on 6 February 2019, at 15:30-18:30, followed by a networking reception at the European Parliament. The Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York (UK) will showcase their excellent research around the potential future of human and robot interaction. Drawing upon expertise from
An EU-funded project is driving innovation and commercial interest in novel magnet technologies that are set to play a key role in deepening our understanding of the universe by means of a planned major upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Powered by
Virus collections are vital resources for understanding the basis of diseases and formulating control strategies. An EU-funded project is developing an easily accessible global archive of pathogens – a way of boosting research into protecting human and animal health. Powered by WPeMatico
ELIXIR is celebrating its fifth anniversary by hosting an event entitled ‘Open Data for Impact and Innovation’. The event is aimed at funders, policy-makers, industry representatives, and ELIXIR partners. As an ESFRI landmark infrastructure, ELIXIR’s role is to coordinate, integrate and sustain Europe’s life science data resources. Since its establishment
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