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On 13 July the first LIFE Call for Proposals opened under the new LIFE programme 2021-2027, which comprises four sub-programmes: nature & biodiversity, circular economy and quality of life, climate change mitigation and adaptation and the clean energy transition. Your guide through the calls: info session material The LIFE Team has published on the CINEA’s…
The European Research Council’s work programme adopted today includes over €2.4 billion to fund grants for some 1,100 excellent scientists and scholars in the EU and associated countries. This is the ERC’s second work programme under Horizon Europe. The funding will be awarded in a series of grant competitions refereed by panels of internationally renowned…
by Sandrine Ceurstemont The most serious hazard from windblown sand is train derailment, so trains typically travel at a reduced speed on windy days as a precaution. ‘Fewer trains are passing per hour,’ said Dr Lorenzo Raffaele, a wind engineer at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium. ‘This causes a loss…
Irish consumers have a slightly more positive perception of bio-based products than their Dutch counterparts, according to research. Results show 93% of respondents from Ireland and 81% of respondents from the Netherlands indicating that they prefer to buy bio-based products instead of fossil-based ones. Price was identified as the main deterrent, but around half of…
The European Commission has announced the second round of direct equity investment through the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund. Since its launch in 2020, the EIC Fund has now approved 111 investments in highly innovative start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) totalling more than €500 million to scale up breakthrough innovations in areas such…
by Anthony King. In December 1945, during his Nobel Prize lecture for the discovery of penicillin, Dr Alexander Fleming warned that bacteria could become resistant to the drug if exposed to non-lethal amounts. ‘It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them,…
by Joanna Roberts ‘It is likely that we are entering an age of pandemics,’ said Prof. Peter Piot, director of the UK’s London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976 and is now special advisor to the president of the European Commission on COVID-19. He told the audience of…
by Sandrine Ceurstemont. Driven by technological innovations, the so-called fourth industrial revolution of the past decade is changing the workplace. Thanks to digital technologies, jobs are becoming more flexible, with self-employment on the rise. New technologies are being adopted at an exponential pace, much faster than in previous waves of innovation, with technologies like artificial…
Recycling Plastics: Towards a More Sustainable Plastic Treatment in 2030 Date: 1 July 2021 Time: 10:00 CEST Location: Online (registration required) The PLAST2BCLEANED, CIRCULAR FLOORING, CREATOR, NONTOX, and REACT initiatives have joined forces to address the current challenge of plastic recycling. During this two hour webinar, projects will share their different approaches to the…
GEARING-Roles announced as the CORDIS Project of the Month for June 2021 CORDIS are featuring the GEARING-Roles project as their Project of the Month due to its intrepid work in the field of gender roles and gender equality in the research and innovation sectors. In particular, CORDIS are highlighting the project’s board game, ‘Nobel Run’,…
Three EU-backed physicists have used a new mathematical approach to make calculating particle collisions much easier. Everything we see around us is made up of elementary particles, the building blocks of matter. We know that protons and neutrons are made up of particles called quarks and that electrons are important building blocks for atoms. Thanks…
By Sandrine Ceurstemont Bacterial infections are a major problem for poultry producers. Outbreaks of E. coli, for example, can spread quickly through a flock, resulting in high mortality and loss of income for farmers. Other bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter might not be as serious to the birds, but can lead to illness in…
By Caleb Davies In 2016, three pioneers of building molecular machines were recognised with a Nobel prize. Their work broke new ground. But the first tranche of molecular machines that they were rewarded for creating were mostly simple affairs such as rotors, switches and the like. Now chemists like Professor David Leigh at the University…
By Katrina Hutchins Conference on resource efficiency and sustainable consumption Copenhagen, 27 May 2021. Presentations and discussion: 9 am – 12 pm CET Networking/debate: 3 pm – 5 pm CET Programme and registration are available via i-REXFO Registration closes 21 May 2021 Unsustainable patterns of consumption are a primary cause of climate change, land degradation, resource…
Belinda Pletzer and team have just launched a Frontiers research topic on the effects of hormonal contraceptives on the brain. The research overview can be found here: Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on the Brain: Oral contraceptives just celebrated their 60th anniversary and are used by 150 million women worldwide. Their primary function is to downregulate the…