Edge Analytics – A gateway-centric software architecture & algorithms for the IoT Edge computing is gaining more and more popularity in the IoT domain. Most IoT scenarios require a combination of edge and cloud computing as a complementary approach, for example, for high computational processing and storage in the cloud on the one hand, and […]
AI technologies ensure food transparency in the hospitality, catering and healthcare industries
More than 17 million Europeans suffer from a food allergy, with 70 % of allergic reactions occurring outside the home. Those involved in the food industry face challenges as they attempt to provide total food and ingredient transparency. An EU-funded project has a solution. The European Food Information Council has replaced seven and amended two […]
H2020: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)
This call (EIC-FTI-2018-2020), which aims to boost innovative companies in the market, belongs to the sub-programme Towards the next EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation: European Innovation Council (EIC) Pilot, of the Horizon 2020 Programme. Who should apply to FTI, the Fast Track to Innovation? Are you looking for partners that can help you […]
12 September: Innovators supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology present their projects
On 12 September 2019, the European Commission and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will co-host an event to showcase how the EIT promotes talented innovators, helping them to turn their ideas into products that benefit our societies. Innovators and entrepreneurs who have benefited from the EIT will tell their stories. Tibor Navracsics, Commissioner for […]
H2020: Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises: Closing the finance gap for IPR-driven start-ups and SMEs
This call (INNOSUP-10-2020), which aims to encourage innovative SMEs and start-ups to better exploit and promote their innovative assets, as well as to develop a strategic vision based on their first results that is easily evaluable by funders, belongs to the Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises sub-programme of the H2020 Programme. Innovative European companies, […]
Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration
Awarded annually, the prize recognises and celebrates achievements that contribute to supporting and strengthening European integration. The Jean Monnet Prize for European Integration aims at honouring Jean Monnet’s memory and life achievements. It does so by rewarding talented individuals or groups having contributed to supporting or strengthening European Integration through a project they designed and implemented. Aim […]
The ECB issues recommendations on the transition from EONIA to €STR for cash and derivatives products
The private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has published a report containing a set of recommendations addressing the impact of the transition from the euro overnight index average (EONIA) to the euro short-term rate (€STR). The recommendations take an operational and valuation perspective, taking into account EONIA’s wide use as a reference rate […]
Avoidable deaths for people under 75
Heart and lung diseases main categories of avoidable death In the European Union (EU), about 1.7 million persons aged less than 75 died in 2016. Among them, around 1.2 million deaths could be considered as premature according to the recently developed Eurostat-OECD list of avoidable mortality. Out of those, 741 000 preventable deaths could have been avoided […]
Trending Science: Planets out there more habitable than Earth?
A new study claims that alien planets could have a greater variety of life than Earth. Earth is the only planet we know that teams with life, but that may change soon enough. According to findings presented at the recent Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Barcelona, Earth may not be the best planet for life. “This […]