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On 27 April the European Union, the United States, and several international partners have proposed a Declaration for the Future of the Internet, setting out the vision and principles of a trusted Internet. It is about the future for the Internet that is open, free, global, interoperable, reliable and secure while protecting and respecting human rights online …
On 27 July, the Commission has announced the results of the 2022 call for the European Universities initiative: with a record budget of €272 million from Erasmus+, 16 existing European Universities will continue to receive support, and four new alliances will be able to start their cooperation. Together with the 24 alliances selected in 2020, a total …
A new call for proposals under the Market Surveillance programme was launched on 1 August 2022, with deadline for applications on 30 September 2022. It will provide a total funding of €530 000. The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) has launched a new call for proposals entitled “Support to joint enforcement actions” …
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EIT is pleased to announce that the EIT Governing Board has decided to extend the Partnership Agreement with EIT Health and EIT RawMaterials following a successful seven-year assessment for both Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs). As stated in the EIT Regulation and Strategic Innovation Agenda, a comprehensive assessment of the results of the two KICs was conducted after the first partnership agreement of seven …
The war in Ukraine has brought together Ukrainian clusters and SMEs in a unique alliance, the Ukrainian Cluster Alliance (UCA). Starting in March as Clusters4Ukraine, it grew fast, renamed itself to Ukrainian Cluster Alliance and has grown ever since. EIT Manufacturing is honoured to collaborate with UCA and welcomes the organisation as a network partner. As a …
Idoven, a Madrid-based healthtech company, is specialised in early detection and precision treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The EIT Healt-supported start-up will use the funding to continue developing its artificial intelligence (AI) platform to identify arrhythmias and cardiac anomalies. The financing consisted of a EUR 12 million round led by Insight Partners and Northzone. Wayra, the innovation hub of EIT Health …
The Commission adopted the 2022 Annual Action Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community, worth €33.4 million. The Programme plans tailored measures as part of the wide-ranging EU support to implement the Halloumi/Hellim package, to help Turkish Cypriots meet the relevant EU standards. This support follows the Commission’s registration of Halloumi/Hellim as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) in April …
COST Action networks can be highly interdisciplinary allowing for innovation and cross-fertilisation of concepts. In this success story, four COST Actions share how fostering interdisciplinary helped with their research. “Fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science” is one of COST’s strategic objectives and the flexible nature of COST Actions provide a fertile environment to bring together researchers …
Under COST rules in Horizon Europe, researchers and innovators affiliated to institutions based in Switzerland or the United Kingdom are fully eligible to participate in COST Actions. This includes: reimbursed participation in Action networking activities (meetings, conferences, Training Schools, Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs), and virtual mobility grants); possibility to be a main or secondary proposer …