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Less than a year ago, in November 2019, the first EIC Transition to Innovation Activities Call closed the submissions and now, the very first of the selected projects are on their way to genuine technological and societal innovations. The EIC Transition to Innovation Activities is a new funding program under Horizon 2020 scheme. Its objective…
Mariya Gabriel has announced the winners of the EU Prize for Women Innovators which is funded under Horizon 2020. The announcement was made online this time at the European Research and Innovation Days and included: Madiha Derouazi (Switzerland), founder and CEO of Amal Therapeutics, a company developing therapeutic cancer vaccines. Maria Fátima Lucas (Portugal), co-founder and…
Commission announces the winners of Horizon Impact Award 2020 On 23rd September 2020 the European Commission announced the winners of the 2nd edition of Horizon Impact Award; a prize dedicated to recognise EU-funded projects which have shown the ability to create societal impact across Europe and further afield. Subject matters covered by the winning projects…
Autonomous in Old Age “Lisa Ehrhardt, Head of Regional Offers – Living in Old Age” at Pfalzklinikum presents the work of their day centres for the elderly in the Palatinate Pfalzklinikum is a service provider for mental health in Southwest Germany. Its three certified day centres for the elderly focus on the promotion of cognitive…
The Werther effect Handling of suicide in the media Vivien Kogler and Alexander Noyon from Mannheim University of Applied Sciences investigate suicidality, the Werther effect and the role of medial presentation in this context. As guest authors at Pfalzklinikum they summarized the subject of the thesis written by Vivien Kogler. The Werther effect is the…
Launch and presentation of the 7th Higher Education in the World Report “Humanities and Higher Education: Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities” • The 7th Higher Education in the World Report (HEIW7) “Humanities and Higher Education: Synergies between Science, Technology and Humanities” was presented on December 10th 2019 in Barcelona in an open event at…
Big Data for Mobility Tracking Knowledge Extraction in Urban Areas As Track&Know enters the final year of research and development, we look back over 2019 at what we have achieved. One of the major objectives of the Track&Know project is to integrate online data streams, heterogeneous, contextual and archival data on one big data platform.…
4th March 2020 The EU-funded H2020 PRIME-VR2 3-year project aims to develop a state-of-art digital environment for VR rehabilitation at home and in clinic through a virtual gaming space that will provide effective therapy and friendly competition. It will be a significant innovation for people with neuromotor disability such as stroke and cerebral palsy; and…
Photo: Dave Allen R/V Tangaroa Tangaroa ship campaign: Chatam rise March 15th-April 6th 2020 The emissions studies that have taken place in the past using this set-up can suffer from bias due to the presence of local contaminants (both in the atmosphere and sea) and may not be generalized to the global oceans. Here, we…
TONGA ship campaign November 2019 Emission studies on board the R/V Atalante, Tonga islands Emission studies will be performed in order to characterize nascent sea spray properties and new particle formation events during the Tonga project (https://twitter.com/tongaproject). The specific goals related to Sea2Cloud are: to document the sea spray properties emitted from a subtropical area…
SELIS R&D Project Paves the Way for European Logistics Collaboration SELIS (the Shared European Logistics Intelligent Information Space) is a €17 million flagship European Commission-funded research project and part of the EC’s €77 billion Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The SELIS project will be brought to a successful close this month after three years…
Because they know how it is: Peer counselling at the eye level in the Palatinate region The Federal Participation Act of 23rd December 2016 changed on 1st January 2017 con-cerning the performance right of the social code IX and described with its changes, a fundamental paradigm shift in the right to rehabilitation and participation of…
Labs Explorer and Science Explainers now working in association with The EDMA The EDMA are delighted and extremely excited to announce that we are now working in association with both Labs Explorer (@LabsExplorer) and their service Science Explainers (@SciExplainers). In addition to being able to bring many more benefits to our clients across multiple cutting-edge…
On October 15, 2018 the first workshop for the “Do Legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?” project took place in Lome, Togo. Eminent researchers from Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Gabon, Germany, Tanzania, Togo and Zimbabwe, met in the Togolese capital to mark the ground for the research project “Do legislatures enhance democracy in Africa?”. This project led…
People succeeding in acting adaptively and proactively even in crisis situations, under extreme stress or unfavorable conditions have considerably higher chances to sustainably stay healthy. To successfully handle every-day stressors, chronic stress such as diseases but also critical and traumatizing events in life and to be able to adapt to changing environmental conditions despite a…