The coronavirus pandemic has challenged European societies in many ways. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) briefing, published yesterday, analyses the pandemic’s effect on the use of certain single-use plastics products, which cause greenhouse gas and other emissions and can end up littering the environment. It also brings useful lessons to improve our response to future […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Research infrastructures services for a sustainable and resilient agriculture and agro-ecological transitions
Expected Outcome Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: provision of innovative, customised and efficient RI services enhancing and increasing society’s long-term and consistent problem-solving capacity and evidence-based policy making for resilient and sustainable agriculture systems and its nexus with environment, health and food security, including a better understanding of […]
Assistant Professor Position in Technology in The Netherlands
The mission of the Cognitive Robotics (CoR) department (1) at TU Delft is to develop intelligent robots and vehicles that will advance mobility, productivity and quality of life. The CoR department combines fundamental research with experimental work on physical demonstrators in areas such as self-driving vehicles, collaborative industrial robots, mobile manipulators and haptic interfaces. Of […]
Interview with Diego Luis Valera Martínez, Vice-rector of the University of Almería
The Digital Fund of the European Documentation Centre of Almeria includes among its freely accessible online documentation, interviews with personalities from the business and academic spheres, national and international institutions, etc. Its aim is to become an attractive and direct communication space, offering added value in the field of EU policies affecting European and Spanish […]
CoR and ESPON need your help to map digital innovation on local level
The DIGIsurvey, a keystone of the DIGISER project was launched on 8 June 2021. DIGISER is a research project under the ESPON programme carried out by OASC, IS-Practice, POLIMI, CPC, and Deloitte. Data on how cities, towns and rural areas across Europe tackle digital innovation is scarce. The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) provides an […]
PhD Position in Economics in Norway
Description At the Department of Economics, University of Bergen, there is a vacancy for a PhD position in economics. We are looking for candidates with a master’s degree in economics with projects that combines economics or finance with techniques from computer science. This can for instance, but not limited to, be projects on firm or […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Increasing the reproducibility of scientific results
Expected Outcome Projects are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes: Structured understanding of the underlying drivers, of concrete and effective interventions – funding, community-based, technical and policy – to increase reproducibility of the results of R&I; and of their benefits; Effective solutions, policy-, technical- and practice-based, to increase the reproducibility of R&I results […]
Let’s sing! June 21 – European Day of Music
Happy Music Day! This June 21, as every year since 1975, when this date was declared the European Day of Music, the musical world is celebrating, because today, in a large number of cities around the world, this art will once again be available to the public free of charge. Origin of the European Day […]
Report calls for global action for better resilience to droughts
Marking today’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, a new report calls for better coordination to manage the risk of severe droughts, as climate change brings increasing global temperatures and disrupts rainfall patterns. The report highlights the deep and widespread impacts of droughts, beyond the already high direct costs. Costs stemming from indirect impacts […]