Today, the Commission has presented an EU action plan aimed at bolstering the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers. This Action Plan was announced in President von der Leyen’s political guidelines as a key priority within the first 100 days of the new mandate. The initiative is an important step in shielding the healthcare sector from cyber […]
Participation – The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge – EU Countries
The Young Entrepreneurs Challenge is inviting young people aged 16 to 25, with fresh and innovative technology-led business ideas to submit a 60-second pitch video on the competition website. Eligibility criteria Individuals between 16 and 25 years old on the 1st February 2025 Residents and/or citizens of a mainland European country or the UK Immediate family […]
Commission publishes first draft Code of Practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence
The Commission has today published the first draft of the Code of Practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI). The draft was prepared by independent experts appointed by the AI Office as chairs and vice-chairs of the four working groups of the Code of Practice for General Purpose AI. This first draft is based on contributions […]
Improving Europe’s precision agriculture with AI
Through a combination of innovative technologies, researchers are empowering Europe’s farmers and making agriculture more efficient and sustainable. Artificial intelligence (AI) has a vast untapped potential in precision agriculture. Aided by remote sensing, Earth Observation (EO) systems, aerial surveys and innovative sensors, precision agriculture can better redistribute and save valuable resources and increase productivity – […]
Commission receives seven proposals for AI factories to boost AI innovation in the EU
The first seven proposals for artificial intelligence (AI) factories have been submitted to the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which manages the call announced in September 2024. These AI factories will create a thriving European ecosystem for training advanced AI models and developing AI solutions. They will be built around the EU’s network of world-class European high-performance […]
Chips competence centres to strengthen semiconductor expertise across Europe about to kick-off
Following the recent call, the Commission announced today the selection of 27 Chips Competence Centres across 24 Member States and Norway to enhance technical expertise and skills development in the semiconductor sector. Co-financed by the EU and national contributions, the first wave of Competence Centres represents an investment of over EUR 170 million. A second […]
PhD position on Polymeric Friction for Offshore Industry Applications, Netherlands
This doctoral project is part of a larger, multidisciplinary and international project APRIORI: “Active PRoduct-to-Process LearnIng fOR Improving Critical Components Performance” (no. 101073551) funded under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks within the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Commission. APRIORI gathers universities (KU Leuven, TU Delft, Aalborg University), research institute (Jozef Stefan Institute) and small- […]
2 PhD’s on Laboratory experiments on the fundamentals of lightning, Netherlands
This research is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant project Bottled Lightning, which in total comprises four PhD positions and two PostDocs, as well as a large investment in equipment. This project is embedded in the PI-group of Sander Nijdam, called ‘Extreme non-equilibrium plasmas’, while most activities will be located in the Electrical Energy Systems lab at TU/e. This […]
PhD: Agent-based modelling for reconstructing the history of culture & language in Netherlands
The aim of this project is to understand and quantify the roles of sociocultural and biophysical factors in the evolution of linguistic diversity using an agent-based modelling approach. The spatial agent-based model should simulate how and where languages (agents) change, merge, and split over time. You will use linguistics theory in combination with large datasets […]