Expected Outcome: Projects’ results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes: Contribution to the implementation of the 2020-2024 EU Action Plan on firearms trafficking; Improved intelligence picture of firearms trafficking in Europe, modus operandi of such criminal organisations, both offline and online; European Police Authorities, Customs and Border Guards Authorities, […]
EU women at the forefront of deep tech
The European Commission launched Women TechEU – a new EU scheme supporting deep-tech start-ups led by women and helping them grow into tomorrow’s deep tech champions. This scheme comes under the new Horizon Europe innovation ecosystems programme, reinforced by the European Innovation Council (EICs). Data shows that only 15% of innovative start-ups are founded […]
HORIZON EUROPE: AI for cybersecurity reinforcement
Expected Outcome: Projects are expected to contribute to some of the following expected outcomes: Reinforced cybersecurity using AI technological components and tools in line with relevant EU policy, legal and ethical requirements. Increased knowledge about how an attacker might use AI technology in order to attack IT systems. Digital processes, products and systems resilient against […]
What future for European robotics?
Europe is a world-class leader in the production of robots, for example, one fourth of industrial robots in the world are produced in Europe! This industry plays a key role in the digital transformation of our societies and economies that, combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI), will likely have a tremendously disruptive effect. Robots can be […]
European Research Council Advanced Grants
European Research Council (ERC) grants are available to support researchers in carrying out frontier research projects. The European Research Council (ERC) is a European funding initiative, designed to support the best scientists, engineers and scholars in Europe. Its mandate is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Fight against trafficking in cultural goods
Expected Outcome Projects’ results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes: Robust research methodologies, improved intelligence picture and understanding of mechanisms behind organised crime activities related to trafficking of cultural goods both offline and online, modus operandi, possible nexus with terrorist financing; Enhanced ability of security practitioners to identify organised […]
Smart materials help heal wounds
EU-backed scientists show us how smart materials called magnetoactive polymers (MAPs) could someday be used to stimulate healing in epithelial wounds. MAPs change their mechanical properties in response to their surroundings. A revolutionary development in the fields of solid mechanics and materials science, these materials consist of a polymeric matrix (an elastomer) with miniscule magnetic […]
Cell and Gene Therapy: first EIC-ERC workshop held
The European Innovation Council (EIC) and European Research Council (ERC) hosted a joint workshop on gene and cell therapy on 29 June 2021. Cell and gene therapy is a dynamic field of research, ranging from basic science to clinical applications as well as a promising area of medicine. The purpose of the workshop was to […]
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 […]