Tag for 'Research & Innovation'
Monday, July 25th, 2016
European Commission to invest €8.5 billion in research and innovation in 2017 Brussels, 25 July 2016 Today, the European Commission announced an investment of €8.5 billion to be released during 2017 into research and innovation, following an update to the Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding programme.The updated Work Programme [...]
Thursday, July 14th, 2016
Innovation performance compared Brussels, 14/07/2016 Today the Commission released the 2016 results of the European Innovation Scoreboard, the Regional Innovation Scoreboard and the Innobarometer.The main findings are that EU innovation is catching up with Japan and the US, Sweden is once again the innovation leader, and Latvia has become the fastest growing innovator.
Friday, June 3rd, 2016
European Union joins Mission Innovation, a global initiative on clean energy Brussels, 3 June 2016 The European Union has joined Mission Innovation, a global initiative on clean energy, at its inaugural ministerial meeting in San Francisco on 1-2 June. This initiative was launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris with [...]
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
ERC Advanced Grants: €647 million from the EU to 277 senior research leaders European Research Council14 April 2016 The European Research Council (ERC) has announced today the awarding of its prestigious Advanced Grants to 277 senior researchers. The funding, worth in total €647 million, will enable them to pursue their most promising ideas and carry [...]
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
5th Anniversary of coming into force of the Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Japan 2016/03/29 5 years ago, on 29 March 2011 the Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Japan.This agreement aims to encourage, develop and facilitate cooperative activities in the areas of science and technology for peaceful [...]
Tuesday, March 15th, 2016
EU supports Zika research with €10 million Brussels, 15 March 2016 The European Commission is today releasing €10 million for research on the Zika virus, currently affecting large parts of Latin America.The most affected country is Brazil, where the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the recent cluster of severe brain malformations in new-borns [...]
Monday, January 25th, 2016
EU research funding boosts scientific excellence and competitiveness, report finds Brussels, 25 January 2016 Investment in research and innovation from the EU budget between 2007 and 2013 has greatly improved scientific excellence in Europe and strengthened its competitiveness by improving industry's capacity to innovate.These are some of the main findings of the evaluation of EU's [...]
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
European participation in Science Agora 2015 (Tokyo, 14-15 November) 18 November 2015 The 10th edition of the Science Agora, the largest science communication event in Japan, was open for the first time to international participants. The S&T Section at the EU Delegation with support from several Member States seized the opportunity and organised an ambitious [...]
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
Horizon 2020 Info Day 2015 in Tokyo Tokyo2015/10/21 Over 200 persons came to the EU Delegation to Japan from all around the country, to participate in the Work Programme 2016-17 dissemination event, organised by JEUPITSE (an FP7 Bilat project) on 14 October. During the half day event, first, the audience heard from Leonidas Karapiperis (S&T [...]
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
Commission invests €16 billion in funding for research and innovation over next two years Brussels, 13 October 2015IP/15/5831 The European Commission will invest almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme, following a new Work Programme for 2016-17 adopted today.The new [...]