Academics, innovators, and industry: innovative changes taking hold but more must be done Higher education institution (HEI) experts gathered at a recent EIT Raw Materials-led event to assess the rate of innovation across European HEIs. They agreed that the institutional change and innovations needed to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal are starting …
Pôle MecaTech, a Belgian competitiveness cluster from the Walloon region, strives to increase their members’ innovation, production and service capacities to raise their profiles on the European and world market. EIT Manufacturing and Pôle MecaTech will collaborate more intensely in the future, just having agreed on a network partnership. Rooted in a region with amazing innovation …
All over Europe, entrepreneurs are working on innovative solutions to cope with urban mobility challenges. However, circumstances differ across the continent resulting in unequal number and quality of funding opportunities for locally emerging businesses. Through the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS), EIT tackles such disparities by spreading its activities more evenly. More precisely, the RIS region defines …
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is scaling up and consolidating its on-the-ground presence across the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) by establishing a network of EIT Community RIS Hubs in over 20 countries across Europe. The EIT RIS is an EIT instrument dedicated to tackling Europe’s persistent innovation divide. By connecting regional actors, innovators, and partners to Europe’s largest …
The projects will begin their research on a range of topics such as reducing crime, enhancing privacy, and managing responses to natural disasters—contributing to EU policy, priorities, and Missions. Background Five calls for applications for funding under Horizon Europe – Cluster 3: Civil security for society opened on the 30th of June 2021 and closed on the 23rd of …
Αs part of the EU Cancer Screening Scheme to be put forward under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission presents a new approach to support Member States increasing the uptake of cancer screening. Focusing on detection of cancers at an early stage, the objective of the proposed recommendation is to increase the number of screenings, covering more target …
The Commission has published the 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard, which reveals that the EU’s innovation performance has grown by about 10% since 2015. Compared to 2021, innovation performance in 2022 has improved for 19 Member States, and declined for eight. Compared to the EU average, global competitors such as Australia, Canada, Republic of …
The 16th edition of the European Commission’s biggest event dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy, the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), started on Monday 26 September. As it did before the pandemic, this 4-day policy conference took place in Brussels, but all sessions can also was attended online. In addition, there was a digital fair …
Ιn the margins of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans renewed the EU’s commitment to reverse biodiversity loss and fight climate change at the pledging event ‘Countdown to CBD COP15: Landmark Leaders Event for a Nature Positive World’. Raising momentum for an ambitious global deal to stop and …
LIFE GYPCONNECT released 46 bearded vultures in France’s Pre-Alps and Massif Central mountain ranges – almost double the planned number. Bearded vultures were once found across the mountains of southern Europe, but during the 19th and 20th centuries, their numbers plummeted due to poaching, a lack of wild herbivores and changes in farming practices. Today, …