The Commission adopted a Communication on its Global Approach to Research and Innovation, Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world. With this, the EU aims to take a leading role in supporting international research and innovation partnerships, and to deliver innovative solutions to make our societies green, digital and healthy. Excellent research needs […]
The European Research Council has published the ERC project evaluator guides for the three main calls: ERC-Starting and Consolidator Grants and ERC-Advanced Grants. These documents can be useful to better understand how ERC project evaluators work. Guide-for-peer-reviewers_he-erc-adg Guide-for-peer-reviewers_he-erc-stg-cog
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Swiss universities have called on the country’s Federal Council to reach an agreement as soon as possible to conclude treaties with Brussels, an issue that is jeopardizing Switzerland’s full participation in the Horizon Europe research and innovation program. The new framework agreement between the EU and Switzerland is expected to replace more than 100 bilateral
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The Council of the European Union has adopted the regulation establishing the Euratom program for the period 2021-2025 with a budget of 1.3 billion for fusion and fission research. It will strengthen European nuclear competences and will support the European plan against cancer (eg Ionizing radiation used for diagnostics and therapy). There is also a
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The European Parliament has approved the Digital Europe program (DEP or DIGITAL), thus consolidating the budget agreed in December, with a total amount of 7.58 billion euros (at current prices). The program will finance the increase in the capacity of European supercomputing and data processing (€ 2.2 billion) and will make supercomputing more accessible and
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ERCEA has published some clarifications on ongoing ERC projects in relation to the impact of the COVID pandemic, available at this link: https://erc.europa.eu/news/coronavirus-business-continuity-measures-erc
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The European Commission has published the EIC 2021 Work Program. The funding opportunities will be multiple and will be developed through three main tools: Pathfinder: for advanced research based on disruptive technologies capable of creating new markets; Transition: to transform research results into innovative opportunities; Accelerator: for individual companies with breakthrough innovations and potential high
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With the approval of the Horizon Europe program at the gates – scheduled for the end of April 2021 – and the subsequent adoption and publication of the Work Plans, the Commission has decided to announce the new template to be used in the RIA and IA proposals: https: //bit.ly/3tBGKeu The new form contains some
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Following the announcement of the delays in the publication dates of the ERC calls, a pre-publication on the ERC website of the DRAFT documents for the ERC 2021 calls is in preparation. ERC will publish these documents online by the end of January or the beginning of February. ERC intends to keep the deadlines for
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On January 2021, 1st, the Horizon Europe programme, the largest transnational program that has ever supported research and innovation, was launched. The political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of mid-December 2020 – which awaits official approval (between March and April 2021) has set the overall budget for Horizon Europe at around €
