As a member of the project consortium, the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) is participating in the European Networking for satellite Telecommunication Roadmap for the governmental Users requiring Secure, inTeroperable, innovativE and standardiseD services, i.e. ENTRUSTED project. The project kicked off on 15 September 2020 with a 30-month timeline and a budget of close to […]
Waging war against SARS-CoV-2 with Europe’s most powerful supercomputers
Searching for new COVID-19 treatments, an EU-funded project conducted a supercomputing experiment to study the interaction of over 70 billion antiviral molecules with SARS-CoV-2 proteins. A huge molecular computation experiment was recently conducted to identify new treatments against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Run by the EU-funded EXSCALATE4CoV project, the experiment is believed to be the most […]
Innovating in the Practical Teaching of Health Sciences: Gamification and Escape Room
Several subjects of the Nursing and Physiotherapy degree of the University of Almeria, through a teaching innovation project, use Escape Rooms as an evaluation tool. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” What is teaching innovation? Teaching innovation at all levels of education is not really new, […]
LIFE YEAST: Turning brewer’s yeast into new bioproducts
BDI biotechnology’s European LIFE YEAST project uses spent brewer’s yeast to transform it into new bio-products of great value for other sectors, contributing to the circular economy Context Spent brewer’s yeast is a by-product obtained in the brewing process, which is often sold as animal feed, and in many other cases is wasted and managed […]
European Innovation Council pilot: €344 million to 107 visionary ideas of start-ups, SMEs and researchers
The European Commission announces today the latest results of the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot. Over 100 game-changing ideas from across Europe are on track to receive EIC support totalling €344 million. Funded by Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme, the selected proposals include the Radical project, which is revolutionising local and global […]