FOXES (an acronym for Fully Oxide-based Zero-Emission and Portable Energy Supply) wants to develop a novel stand-alone zero emission solid-state power generating and storage system. The FOXES project gained support under the Horizon 2020 – FET Proactive programme and it will run for 48 months, until September 2024. Within this timeframe, the researchers propose an…
Forensic Treatment of Young People as a Chance By Laura Kirschbacher Forensic treatment of young people is an area of conflict: Between rules and educational work, on the one hand and the opportunities for teenagers’ and adolescents’ personal development, on the other hand. Between reform and safeguarding, between educational missions and instructions for building up…
Innovative. Close to domicile. Human. by Elena Posth & Romina Männl Mental health is a major issue in Rhineland-Palatinate. For years, Pfalzklinikum, as a service provider for mental health, has been trying to make treatment and care more innovative. This year, Pfalzklinikum was able to start into a new era of treatment at all its…
Fifty-eight novel, high-impact technologies have been selected in the last round of investment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) ‘Pathfinder Open’ Pilot, funded under Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme. This last call of European Innovation Council (EIC) ‘Pathfinder Open’ Pilot has represented the highest-ever budget (€191 million), number of selected projects (58)…
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…
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…
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…
The final year of Horizon 2020 sees the largest total award for collaborative research for health. The 75 projects short-listed after evaluation will involve 1158 participants from 58 countries. Following signatures of grant agreements in the coming weeks, they should receive a total of €508 million in grants to address a wide range of crucial…
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…
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…