Entries by Chiara Facoetti

EU invests over €1 billion in innovative projects to decarbonise the economy

© European Commission The European Union is investing over €1.1 billion into seven large-scale innovative projects under the Innovation Fund. The grants will support projects aiming to bring breakthrough technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, carbon capture, use and storage, and renewable energy. The projects are located in Belgium, Italy, Finland, France, the […]

ATMO-ACCESS 1st call for access is now open!

ATMO-ACCESS will offer opportunities for free-of-charge Trans-National Access (TNA) to specific services at 43 operational European atmospheric research facilities in Europe. In this first call, all ATMO-ACCESS facilities will be eligible, the call topic will be open and access modalities will be unrestricted. Nevertheless, a key goal of the ATMO-ACCESS project is to explore and […]

Impact on Industry – success stories from ESRF

ESRF has just published a few of our more recent success stories with industry as a user, supplier and collaborator of our facilities. “Industry has been working with the ESRF ever since we started operating the synchrotron in 1994. We try our best to be as open for industry as possible – supporting innovation in […]

Portugal launches €250M programme to boost tech transfer in universities

© SCIENCE|BUSINESS Portuguese economy minister Pedro Siza Vieira and EIB Vice President Ricardo Mourinho Félix announced the Portugal Tech II programme at the Web Summit on Tuesday. The programme will mobilise €250 million in venture capital investments to boost technology-transfer projects from universities and technology-based start-ups with high potential in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, […]

Research associations plead for eleventh hour deal on UK’s Horizon Europe association

© SCIENCE|BUSINESS Research and university associations from across Europe have sent a letter to the European Commission calling for the UK to become associated in Horizon Europe without delay. In the letter, bodies representing over 1,000 universities, 38 research institutes and funding agencies, 33 rectors’ conferences, and 120 regional organisations, say the lack of a […]

Vacancy at CLARIN ERIC: Executive Director

As the last term of office of the current Executive Director will run out in 2022, CLARIN is looking for an inspiring person to chair the Board of Directors (BoD) and -in close collaboration with the other board members and the national coordinators- steer CLARIN in consolidating its position in the dynamic RI landscape. The […]

EMBL strengthens links with Estonia

© EMBL EMBL and the University of Tartu have signed a memorandum of understanding to foster scientific collaboration in the life sciences. Since June 2019, Estonia has been a prospect member state of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has now been signed between EMBL and the University of Tartu, […]

Vacancy at CLARIN ERIC: Member of the Board of Directors

As of January 2022 the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CLARIN) will have an opening for the position of member of the Board of Directors (20% FTE) who will work closely together with the other directors. The appointment will be for a term of two years, with the possibility of prolongation for another term of […]

Big Science Sweden members in ESS framework agreement

ESS has now published a list of suppliers contracted in the framework agreement for technical consultants and services. Under the agreement, the companies will be supplying services in various fields of expertise for two years, which can be extended up to five years. The technical areas include Plan and Process Engineering (Lot 1), Mechanical Engineering […]

Apply for Pilot project • Industrial utilization of neutron and synchrotron light-based technologies in large-scale research infrastructure

The project is initiated by Vinnova (Sweden’s Innovation Agency) which contributes funding. Apply no later than September 21, 2021! Through the funding, Vinnova wants to strengthen the conditions for industrial use of technologies based on neutron scattering and synchrotron light in large-scale research infrastructure. The project can, for example, be carried out in collaboration with […]