The Commission announced today that the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) will support - with up to €100 million over five years - 19 doctoral and 24 post-doctoral researcher training programmes of outstanding quality from 11 EU Member States and 3 associated countries. The countries with the most projects selected are Spain, France and Ireland. These programmes will foster the high-quality training, supervision and career development of...

The Joint Research Centre (JRC)’s Science for Policy Handbook provides advice on how to bring science to the attention of policy makers. The handbook is dedicated to researchers and research organisations aiming to achieve policy impact. Today we face major policy challenges, which cannot be solved without scientific evidence. Science and policy are different worlds, but they must collaborate closely in order to address wicked problems of our...

Via European Commission Self-healing smartphones, asteroid mining for essential minerals and telepathic brain-to-brain communication enabled by technology. These are some examples of impressive innovations on the horizon presented in the new independent expert report 100 Radical Innovation Breakthroughs for the future. The report is a foresight study displaying the progress and outlook for 100 ground breaking social and technological innovations...

On 24 March, the European Commission hosted the 10th EU-Brazil Joint Steering Committee meeting (JSCM) under the ‘Agreement on Scientific and Technological cooperation between the European Community and the Federative Republic of Brazil’. The meeting took place online and was co-chaired by Maria Cristina Russo, Director for International Cooperation at DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission, and Ambassador Achilles Zaluar,...

Via European Commission The European Commission has today announced the higher education institutions from all over Europe that will be part of the first “European Universities” alliances. They will enhance the quality and attractiveness of European higher education and boost cooperation between institutions, their students and staff.  Out of 54 applications received, 17 European Universities involving 114 higher education institutions from 24 ...

Companies in the European Union (EU27) have increased their investment in research and development (R...

In the last Innovation Launchpad call, the European Innovation Council Pathfinder Pilot has selected 35 innovative projects aiming to contribute to strengthening European competitiveness and stimulate an open mind-set towards innovation and exploitation. With these grants, the successful proposals will be able to analyse potential markets and ways to commercialise products, assess technology level and consolidate intellectual property rights,...

The 3rd Workshop of the ALISIOS project entitled "Enhancing recognition of degrees and credits between Brazil and Europe: Implications for collaboration, mobility and internationalisation" took place on 25 April 2015 in the Pantanal Convention Centre of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, as part of the FAUBAI Conference. It tackled the topic of recognition, both of degrees and of credit mobility, as this complex theme is essential for 'flexibilising'...

WHERE: PUCRS, Ipiranga Avenue, 6681, Partenon – Porto Alegre / RS – CEP: 90619-900 WHEN : 2nd – 7th October 2017 Since 2003, the Brazil-Germany Symposium of Sustainable Development has been taking place in both countries alternately every other year. The purpose of the Symposium is to present and discuss the differences and similarities regarding the sustainable development of two societies related to their cultural identity with the resources...

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