You are part of the MSCA-RISE consortium ‚ULTRACEPT‘. In a nutshell, what is this project all about? The project ‘Ultra-layered perception with brain-inspired information processing for vehicle collision avoidance’ (ULTRACEPT), is being funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) grant number 778062. The project has...

Applicants for European research funding programmes often wonder what makes a successful proposal. Which ideas made the cut? What was the outcome of these research endevaours? Others are keen to locate participants of projects that have successfully applied for EU funding to build new partnerships. Fortunately, the European Commission provides all this information in one spot – on CORDIS!   What is CORDIS? CORDIS – short for ‚Community Research...

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Europe is open to the world! That is the strong message to hundreds of researchers taking part in this year's European Research Days Indonesia 2020 - ERD2020. Opening Dialogue 'Stronger Together - The Importance of International Scientific Collaboration' On 19 October, the European Research Days Indonesia were officially opened by H.E. Vincent Piket, Ambassador, EU Delegation to Indonesia...

Three researchers from Southeast Asia are among the awardees of the 2020 ”Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development” Competition hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The forum promotes the international exchange of innovative green ideas. The award, under the patronage of Minister Anja Karliczek, honours young researchers each year. The winners come from numerous...

The European Commission launched the Manifesto for EU Covid-19 Research in July, as part of the common European response to the coronavirus outbreak, to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against Covid-19. After less than three months since its launch, the Manifesto celebrates its first 2000 signatories. So far, more than 500 organisations (including universities, research institutes and private companies) endorsed the...

A new booklet has just been published to celebrate the past 30 years of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme and its future as Pathfinder for Advanced Research in the European Innovation Council (EIC). Access the booklet here. “Voices from the future” illustrates Europe’s journey to support visionary interdisciplinary research on radically new technologies over the past three decades. You will discover the policy evolution from...

On 7 October 2020, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna ‘for the development of a method for genome editing’. Both scientists discovered the so-called CRISPR/Cas9 ‘genetic scissors’, a revolutionary method that allows scientists to edit the genome (DNA) of living beings with high precision. The discovery could have an enormous impact, advancing research of new, ground-...

The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program was established by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education institutions to attract top foreign students to enroll in their masters and PhD programs. It gives opportunity to the future foreign decision-makers of the private and public sectors, in priority areas of study, and encourages applicants up to 25 years old from developing countries at master’s level,...