Commission invests €128 million to address the coronavirus pandemic and its effects.

The Commission is supporting 23 new research projects with a total of €128 million to address the continuing coronavirus pandemic and its effects. The 23 projects involve 344 research teams from 39 countries, including 32 participants from 15 countries outside of the EU. The funding will enable researchers to strengthen and adapt industrial capacity to…

New nanotechnology for therapeutic purposes: ANGIE:

ANGIE will create an innovation eco-system around a radically new technology for localized targeted drug delivery in clinical environments based on magnetically steerable wireless nanodevices. Current methods of drug delivery are limited in the sense of efficacy, as they cannot guarantee precise control of the drug release kinetics and modulation of the concentrations. The ANGIE…

The breakthrough innovation cycle achieved thanks to the EIC Pathfinder programme funds

A spin-off company, named Biomimetic, was newly created, implementing a technology invented within the FET /Pathfinder open project LiNabioFluid that was further developed thanks to the Innovation Launchpad funding given to the LaBionicS project. The initial idea, born with the LiNaBioFluid project, was inspired by the integuments or behinds of certain animals such as bark…

Applications for the next President of the European Research Council – deadline approaching

November 20th 2020 is the application deadline to apply for the position of the next President of the European Research Council (ERC) Commissioner Mariya Gabriel has appointed seven experts as members of the Search Committee for the next President of the ERC. The independent Search Committee will make recommendations to the Commission on the best…

LaserImplant will improve dental prostheses and implants for bone regeneration

The new EIC Pathfinder project wants to develop laser-induced hierarchical micro-/nano-structures for controlled cell adhesion at implants. The LaserImplant project addresses wide-spread patient’s needs in the fields of dental prostheses and screws and plates for bone regeneration. The research team explains the current challenges as following: “A large application area of medical implants are currently…

BoneFix: A new Pathfinder project proposing a paradigm shift in fracture fixations

BoneFix aims to provide a novel class of bone adhesives that will allow for personalized surgical treatment of bone fractures via minimal invasive surgery under local anaesthesia. The BoneFix project aims to deal with the socioeconomics cost of fractures. While this medical condition occurs relatively commonly, as it is caused by accidents such as falls,…

SWATCH Project by Dr. Ana Andreu

SWATCH – Savanna WATer and Carbon fluxes modelling integrating EartH Observation data Savannas (grasslands with scattered trees and shrubs) are among the most complex, variable and extensive biomes on Earth (~20%), covering more than 3 million ha in Europe and half of Africa. One fifth of the world’s population depend upon them, as an agrosilvopastoral…