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The ERC Consolidator Grants 2023 call closed for applications on 2 February 2023. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals: The ERC received 2,130 proposals. This is a decrease of 4.1% compared to the 2022 call when 2,222 applications were submitted. Physical Sciences and Engineering attracted the highest number of applications (881), followed by Social Science and …
The European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund) has taken 42 new investment decisions into deep-tech companies for a total of €331 million since the last announcement in November 2022. 13 companies have already signed their investment agreements. These are pioneering start-ups that are poised to bring breakthrough innovations to citizens and businesses: a new type of computer vision software …
The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 34 projects following September 2022 EIC Transition cut-off. These successful proposals, selected among 181 eligible submissions, will receive altogether €79.3 million of EU funding (up to €2.5 million each). The EIC Transition supports both single entities (research teams, SMEs, spin outs) and small consortia (up to 5 partners …
The survey will remain open until 7 March 2023. DG Climate action launched a market-testing survey, to consult a wide range of stakeholders on key features of the future Innovation Fund and to establish an appropriate portfolio of support instruments that will best meet the market needs. The survey comes in a moment when the EU …
Eye-tracking technology is widely used in various scientific fields including cognitive psychology, linguistics, and computational sciences. Multilingual eye-tracking data collection refers to the process of collecting eye movement data from individuals while they read or look at stimuli in different languages. This type of data collection is useful for both human and machine language processing, …
The European Commission awards €16 million to the Blue-Cloud 2026 and the AquaINFRA projects in order to protect oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters. Connecting data on the marine and coastal environment, on biodiversity, and on the water cycle with the ‘Blue Economy’ is essential to achieve the goals of the EU Mission “Restore our …
CINEA organised a workshop to showcase CINEA EU funded projects in the area of green shipping on 8 December 2022, to discuss: The contribution of a selection of EU funded projects to the decarbonisation of the shipping sector; The framework conditions that can facilitate the development, market uptake, and transferability to fishing fleets of sustainable innovative solutions; …
The LIFE Programme has today launched a brand-new campaign called #LIFEAmplifiers. Today, 59% of the world’s population uses social media. On average, people use channels like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for two hours and 29 minutes daily. We think there is an excellent opportunity for our LIFE projects to capitalise on this and promote their …
The 2023 call submitted proposals bring us closer to reaching the European strategy for universities objective of 60 European Universities alliances established by mid-2024, involving around 500 higher education institutions across Europe. Driving systemic change through deeper cooperation The European Universities initiative supports higher education institutions to achieve greater quality, performance, attractiveness and international competitiveness. …
A summary report on the 5th Education Summit, released on 2 February, describes the main highlights from the event. The Summit attracted almost 1 million views online on top of over 240 in-house participants. About the Summit The 5th European Education Summit put youth and education centre stage, giving our “bright young minds” the opportunity …