Expected Impact Public and private procurement represent an untapped potential to stimulate the demand for innovation. The public and private sectors could offer new opportunities for suppliers, and provide better, more efficient services. Therefore, innovation procurement would boost transforming research into innovative solutions targeted at societal needs, and support innovative companies to commercialise their ideas. […]
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Horizon Europe: Capacity-building and transnational cooperation for National Contact Points
Expected outcomes Improved professionalisation/skills of NCPs across Europe, helping to simplify access to Horizon Europe calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raising the average quality of proposals submitted. Harmonised and improved trans-national cooperation between NCPs. Enhanced support to NCPs and potential applicants in widening countries and countries that participate at lower levels in […]
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Horizon: Cohorts united against COVID-19 variants of concern
Expected Outcome This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to the development of large scale, COVID-19 cohorts and networks worldwide, including beyond Europe’s borders, forging links with European initiatives as a global response to the pandemic. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim at delivering results that are directed, […]
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Horizon Europe National Infoday – Cluster 6 – Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment.
On Thursday, April 29, the National Infoday on Horizon Europe and Cluster 6, “Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment” will be held. It will be a virtual informative session in which the new Horizon Europe program (2021-2027), the content of the work program of cluster 6 for the period 2021-2022, the new missions and […]
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HORIZON: Vaccines & therapeutic clinical trials to boost COVID-19 prevention and treatment
Expected Outcome This topic aims at supporting activities that enable the conduct of vaccine & therapeutic trials to boost prevention and further inform public health policy and clinical management. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to two of the three expected outcomes […]
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Horizon: Research infrastructure services for rapid research responses to COVID-19 and other infectious disease epidemics
Expected Outcome Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: comprehensive catalogue of research infrastructure services relevant to tackle infectious diseases epidemics is available, including services supporting pertinent social sciences research; fast assembly and provision of innovative, customised and efficient research infrastructure services to support research linked to detecting, assessing and […]
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H2020: Fostering regulatory science to address combined exposures to industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Specific Challenge Under ‘Towards a zero-pollution ambition for a toxic free environment’, the European Green Deal will propose a new Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, aiming at better protection of both humans and the environment against hazardous chemicals. In addition, there is growing concern about the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment. Humans, wildlife and domestic […]
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Horizon 2020: European capacities for citizen deliberation and participation for the Green Deal
All areas of the European Green Deal, from climate action to zero pollution, require citizens’ active support at all stages of the transitions. This is particularly the case of complex issues with diverging views or interests at stake, such as the rural-urban gap, attitudes to the bio-economy, water management, the choice of energy sources, etc. […]
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H2020: Accelerating the green transition and energy access Partnership with Africa
Specific Challenge This action responds to the Joint Communication for a Comprehensive Strategy with Africa adopted on 9/3/2020, which highlights that innovation is key to enable African countries to pursue sustainable pathways to development through a low-carbon, climate resilient and green growth trajectory, leapfrogging fossil fuel technologies. It will contribute to the present R&I Partnership […]
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