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Widening newsletter 32: Latvia's foreign investors warning and Ukraine's need for big business17:43 The latest news DON’T FORGET ABOUT RIGA: Major investors in Latvia have scored its investment climate at its lowest level in a decade. War, they say, makes business uncertain. But those on the ground in Latvia say this cooled interest masks what is gradually becoming an interesting hub for innovation, if only it can shrug off unwanted comparisons with its more developed Baltic neighbours. Read ou… Universities 4.0: New powerhouses for regional innovation and global impact?14:03 Both in Europe and beyond, policy makers are striving to increase the sustainability and resilience of their economies and societies, in the face of a complex array of macro trends and crises. In recent years, the concept of regional innovation ecosystems (RIEs) has come to the fore as a means to achieve this. Driven by policy initiatives like the EU’s smart specialisation strategy, and supported… Ukraine needs the support of big businesses, not only start-ups, says investor12:13 The Technology and Ukraine: Lessons from the front line event at the European Parliament on April 16. Photo credits: Digital Europe Investing in start-ups in Ukraine is great, but what the country needs from the EU is to incentivise big companies, scale-ups and mid-caps to build a presence in Ukraine, says Sacha Michaud, British tech investor and the co-founder of Spanish delivery app company Glo… Investors call on Latvian prime minister to increase innovation funding to boost competitiveness12:13 Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina. Photo: Latvian State Chancellery / Flickr Key investors in Latvia are calling on the prime minister, Evika Silina, to focus on long-term planning and improving competitiveness after an assessment rated the country’s investment climate at its lowest point since studies began in 2015. The 2023 edition of the Sentiment Index by the Foreign Investors’ Council in L… EU opens exploratory talks with Singapore on Horizon Europe association23.dubna Photo: Bigstock The European Commission has announced that it has opened early stage talks with Singapore about associating to Horizon Europe. As part of a push to open up the research and innovation programme to distant, “like-minded” democracies, South Korea, Canada and New Zealand have already negotiated association to the industrially-focused pillar II of the scheme, while Japan is currently … Three Germans arrested for passing military technology to China23.dubna On the morning of April 16, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) met with President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Photo credits: Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Kingdom of Cambodia China's state security recruited three individuals in Germany to gain access to technical secrets, according to the country’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constit… The last plenary: the main research policy issues of EU’s 9th legislature23.dubna MEPs of the research and industry committee during a voting procedure. Photo credits: Eric Vidal / European Union MEPs are gathering in Strasbourg this week for the last plenary session in the current EU legislature, with many of them about to enter into campaign mode ahead of the 9 June ballot. On the agenda this week are votes on a report by Tomislav Sokol and Annalisa Tardion on the European H… Olaf Scholz adds to calls for capital markets union to solve EU innovation woes23.dubna German chancellor Olaf Scholz. Photo credits: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Flickr German chancellor Olaf Scholz has thrown his weight behind an EU capital markets union to close the bloc’s innovation gap with the US by allowing far more private funding to flow into European start-ups. Speaking at Germany’s annual science and innovation summit yesterday in Hannover, Scholz said he is frustrated by sto… The Ecosystem: Belgium’s self-reliant blockchain ecosystem23.dubna Mathieu Michel, state secretary for digitalisation, has championed blockchain as a priority for the Belgian EU presidency. Photo credits: European Union Belgium has made blockchain one of the priorities of its EU presidency, in particular the relaunch of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure as Europeum, for secure transnational public administration. Yet the nation’s domestic blockchai… KTH: Nuclear materials platform receives 40 million SEK in funding23.dubna KTH has received funding for a new extensive project in nuclear energy technology. The platform for nuclear materials, NuMaP - Nuclear Materials Platform, receives about 40 million SEK from the Swedish Energy Agency. KTH will receive 17 million SEK. "This collaboration strengthens KTH and Sweden's ability to conduct cutting-edge research in materials physics with applications for nuclear power. NuMaP will play an important role in preparing Sweden for a fossil-free future," says Pär Olsson, pro… EUA welcomes 15 new members23.dubna On 10 April 2024, the EUA Council approved the applications of 15 new members. The European University Association is pleased to welcome the following institutions as individual full members: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Austria) University of South Brittany (France) University of Mannheim (Germany) South East Technological University (Ireland) University of Palermo (Italy) Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (Malta) University of Borås (Sweden) Atatürk University (Türkiye) Ca… NCBR announces Swiss-Polish cooperation programme for scientists and entrepreneurs23.dubna NCBR has announced a call for proposals for joint projects between scientists and entrepreneurs who wish to receive funding from Swiss Funds in the area of applied research. The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 July, with 15 million Swiss francs, which is more than PLN 66.5 million, available for use in this year's competition. NCBR is responsible for implementing the programme in the field of applied research, funded under the Second Swiss Contribution, the so-called Swiss Funds. The … Viewpoint: the next framework programme must remember the human dimension23.dubna Monica Schofield is a R&D consultant and head of a funding advice unit at Tutech, a TTO serving Hamburg University of Technology. She is also convenor of a task force on responsible innovation for the European Industrial Research Management Association of which she is an individual member. It didn’t take long after the launch of ChatGPT, before I was asked if we could use it for Horizon Europe pr… T2EVOLVE publishes recommendations for cutting CAR-T therapy red tape23.dubna The consortium published a series of recommendations for how the regulatory process in the EU for approving cell and gene therapies could be sped up. University of Kiel archaeologist wins ERC Advanced Grant to study Roman visual culture23.dubna What effect do images have? Why do we look at them? What is our attitude towards them? Professor Annette Haug will be exploring these questions. She is the first scholar at Kiel University (CAU) to receive an ERC Advanced Grant, which is how the European Research Council (ERC) supports senior top researchers with exceptional projects that promise ground-breaking findings. "This is a major milestone for the CAU and my research," says the archaeologist. She will receive a total of 2.5 million eur… |
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