The Commission has adopted a report on the outcomes of the Western Mediterranean (WestMED) initiative which has been in place for 5 years. Since 2017, five EU Member States (France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Malta), and five southern partner countries (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia) have worked together on their shared interest for the Mediterranean …
Five Knowledge & Innovation Communities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) are launching the New European Bauhaus Booster 2.0. On a mission to foster the New European Bauhaus transformation, EIT Digital, EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Food, EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility are looking for the most innovative ventures developing solutions that make Europe more sustainable, inclusive and improve citizens’ quality of …
The HiPEAC 2023 conference on cybersecurity, computer architecture, programming models, energy efficiency and machine learning is taking place 16-18 January 2023 in Toulouse, France. The conference is organised by HaDEA’s project HiPEAC and consists of parallel workshops, tutorials, special sessions, and an industry exhibition. Discover some of the Horizon 2020 projects in the domains of the Digital Services …
The EU will provide a total amount of nearly €150 million in financial support to 38 projects to deploy safe, secure and sustainable high-performance 5G and digital backbone infrastructure. The projects have been selected among those submitted under calls for proposals under CEF Digital, the funding programme supporting European digital infrastructure. Under the first Call for Proposals …
Six more 2022 Synergy Grant proposals, which were evaluated as excellent but initially put on the reserve list due to limited budget, have been now offered funding. The ERC will be able to provide support to 35 projects involving 125 principal investigators as result of 2022 Synergy Grants competition, considering this additional funding of around …
EIT Urban Mobility is excited to announce its participation in the newly launched URBANE project. URBANE (Upscaling Innovative Green Urban Logistics Solutions Through Multi-Actor Collaboration and Physical Internet (PI) – Inspired Last Mile Deliveries) is a 42-month project co-funded by the Horizon Europe Programme with a budget of around EUR 9 million. It aims to develop novel …
EIT Urban Mobility (represented by Innovation Hub South) and the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) back in May 2022. They’ll use this as the basis for a promising set of new projects in 2023. The MoU provides the framework for collaborative initiatives to tackle current and future urban mobility …
The European Innovation Council of the European Commission, along with representatives from the European National Pavilions are pleased to host the European Night Reception, in the framework of CES 2023, the world’s most influential tech exhibition. High-level representatives from the European Commission – European Innovation Council and from the European National Pavilions are joining forces to promote the European innovation excellence during CES 2023, organising an exclusive networking event to …
The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and the European Patent Office (EPO) have signed a letter of intent to provide informative reports on the proposals invited to panel interviews under the September 2022 EIC Transition Challenge Call. The letter of intent signed by both parties covers a pilot activity which saw EPO experts provide a non-binding view …
Jean-David Malo, Director of the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency, received the innovation award on behalf of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel from the President of CTA, Gary J. Shapiro during the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), the biggest world tech that took place on 5-8 January 2023 in Las Vegas (US). The new ranking produced by …