EU News - Research & Innovation

New EU guide to encourage combining research funding sources

The EU supports research and innovation activities through a range of programmes, including the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) and Structural Funds. Now the European Commission is developing a guide to help researchers select the right programme for their activities and even combine funds from different sources. A draft version of the guide is now ready and the Commission is keen to receive feedback on the document from the research community.

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Nobel Prize-winning participate in EP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Mr. Rajendra Pachauri participated last 26 april 2008 in EP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change before an audience of MEPs.

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Tender on researchers' careers and mobility

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research has issued a call for tenders for a study on mobility patterns and career paths of EU researchers.

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New Calls for Proposals published under the 7th Framework Programme

The European Commission has given it's notice for the launch of three new calls for proposals as part of marie Curie actions. The calls are under the work programmes of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013).

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Council calls for swift progress to knowledge economy

EU Heads of State and Government also called for 'swift progress' to be made in implementing a strategy to unlock Europe's innovation potential. Key aspects of this strategy include meeting national research and development (R&D) investment targets, promoting large research projects such as GALILEO and the Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), and improving collaboration between industry and academia.

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Research into happiness wins European science award

The Italian researcher Luisa Corrado was among the researchers honoured at the European Science Awards Ceremony, for her work on whether wealth can bring happiness. Ms Corrado received one of five "Marie Curie Excellence Awards", which recognise excellent researchers who have participated in the EU's researcher exchange programme. Awards were also given recognising excellence in multinational research teams and in science communication. The winners were selected by three separate Grand Juries, one for each category, composed of leading figures from European and international science. They share an award fund of almost €2m.

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EC future governance of European Agencies

The European Commission today called for a new approach to looking at the role and governance of European agencies. In recent years, using agencies to implement key tasks has become an established part of the way the European Union does its business. The communication calls on the European Parliament and the Council to give a new momentum to the need to develop a clear and coherent vision on the place of agencies in European governance. The Commission calls for the establishment of an inter-institutional working group to allow the key issues facing agencies to be set out as ground rules to apply to all.

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Ex post evaluation of the URBAN Community Initiative

The Directorate-General Regional Policy from the European Union is undertaking an ex post evaluation of Cohesion Policy Programmes financed by the European Regional Development Fund during the period 2000–2006. The focus of the present study will be the 70 URBAN II programmes in the EU14 and the URBACT network for exchange of experience and good practice. The Urban Community Initiative did not continue into the 2007–13 period. Instead, urban regeneration measures are being 'mainstreamed' into Cohesion Policy Programmes as well as national programmes.

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EU invest 3 billion euro for research in nanoelectronics

An unprecedented € 3 billion will be invested in nanoelectronics, with the launch, on the 22nd February 2008, of a major Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) endorsed by the Council of Ministers and by the European Parliament at the end of 2007. This initiative, called ENIAC, is a new public-private partnership which targets nanoelectronics, the technology that enables increasingly high levels of miniaturisation in the myriad of applications and high-tech products which are emerging today. The Governing Boards of this ENIAC – where public and private stakeholders take decisions jointly – met for the first time in Brussels on the 22nd February 2008 .

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Europe speeds up industrial research in Micro-Computers

The European Commission launched on the 22nd February 2008 in Brussels, a major Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) called ARTEMIS. With an unprecedented investment of € 2.5 billion, this initiative, that has been endorsed by the Council of Ministers and by the European Parliament at the end of 2007, addresses embedded computer systems that – while running almost unnoticed by users – improve the performance of all kinds of machines: from cars, planes and phones, to factories, washing machines and televisions. The Governing Boards of ARTEMIS – where public and private stakeholders take decisions jointly – met for the first time in Brussels on the 22nd February 2008.

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