© SCIENCE BUSINESS The EU’s proposed artificial intelligence act fails to fully take into account the recent rise of an ultra-powerful new type of AI, meaning the legislation will rapidly become obsolete as the technology is deployed in novel and unexpected ways. Foundation models trained on gargantuan amounts of data by the world’s biggest tech […]
© European Commission EU Missions are a novelty of the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme for 2021-2027 aiming to address some of the greatest challenges facing our society. With this work programme, the Commission launches the first fully-fledged research and innovation actions that will launch missions into the implementation stage. The actions include direct […]
© SCIENCE BUSINESS Researchers are now grappling with the new EU research programme, said by its architects to be simplified in its structure, and designed to be much more impact-driven than its predecessors. With the first round of applications complete, Science|Business has been asking researchers about their first impressions of Horizon Europe. The reviews are […]
© COESO HYPOTHESES Coeso will fund 5 new pilot projects for up to 50,000 € each to implement innovative Citizen Science projects in Social Sciences and Humanities. Civil society and researchers are invited to apply. COESO is a research project, coordinated by OpenEdition and EHESS, dedicated to the development of citizen science and participatory research […]
© ESO Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a much smaller separation than any other previously spotted pair of supermassive black holes and will eventually merge into one giant black hole. Located […]
Anna Hall, Director Big Science Sweden and Swedish ILO, was moderator for the concluding panel discussion with the day’s speakers: Manuel Moreno, Spanish ILO, José Miguel Jiménez at CERN, Mats Lindroos at ESS, Jean-Claude Biasci at ESRF, Peter Spiller at FAIR, Thomas Tschentscher at XFEL, and Colin Carlile, Uppsala University and ESSnuSB collaboration. The panel […]
© European Commission Today, the European Commission and Georgia have signed the agreement granting Georgia the association status to Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme (2021-2027). Georgian researchers, innovators and research entities can now participate in the €95.5 billion programme, under the same conditions as entities from the EU Member States. The Horizon […]
© SCIENCE BUSINESS As ESFRI sets down plan for the single most expensive project to date, the Commission and member states say there should be moves to strengthen the interplay between EU, national and regional funding for these shared science facilities. Europe needs to build eleven new international research labs at a cost of €4.16 […]
Did you think ENRIITC HQ would rest after the TechConnect Europe Innovation Conference ? Of course not! We flew straight from Sweden to France to get ready for Le Rendez-Vous Carnot. For those who might have not heard about it before, the Les Rendez-Vous Carnot is an annual two-day event with over 1,000 exhibiting researchers […]
How exciting it was to take ENRIITC live for the first time since the start of the project! ENRIITC joined the TechConnect Europe Innovation Conference in Malmö, Sweden from 15-17 November 2021. Bringing together participants from all over the world and covering a broad scientific domain (energy and environment, physics, health and food, etc.) this […]
