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The European Commission needs to make some key innovations in its science funding program if Europe is to enjoy the full benefits of the €70 billion to be spent on science research as part of the Horizon 2020 program kicking off in 2014, according to an academic paper published by SAGE in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy today. The Commission has already taken important steps to reduce administration costs and stimulate the participation of small business in research,...
The European Commission needs to make some key innovations in its science funding program if Europe is to enjoy the full benefits of the €70 billion to be spent on science research as part of the Horizon 2020 program kicking off in 2014, according to an academic paper published by SAGE in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy today. The Commission has already taken important steps to reduce administration costs and stimulate the participation of small business in research,...
ROCHESTER, Mich., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Celtic Oil today announced their selection of Michigan-based technology firm EOS Solutions to provide critical 3D and 4D technology for the TOSCA consortium. TOSCA (Total Operations Management for Safety Critical Activities) is a European Commission funded research project comprised of private enterprise and universities. The goal of the TOSCA research project is to create a commercially viable operations management system for small...
STOCKHOLM and BRUSSELS, January 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- European Consortium Receives EU Funding Contract to Develop Mobile Workforce Applications in the Cloud The MobiCloud consortium announced today that it has successfully finalized negotiations with the European Commission Directorate-General of Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). The MobiCloud project will be co-funded under the ICT Policy Support...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As part of a concerted effort to boost scientific research amongst its member nations, the European Commission announced two $1.3-billion winners of the EU's Future and Emerging Technologies competition. The two international and multi-institutional projects, the “Human Brain Project” and “Graphene”, will each receive over $1.3 billion during the course of the coming decade. The awards are the largest of their kind to come from...
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Water Technologies (OTC Pink: GWTR) is planning to launch a pilot "smart water grid" that demonstrates the importance of addressing sustainable infrastructure through a comprehensive approach that shows benefits to people, pipes and policy. In the past year, the company has announced a patented new sensor + software solution for monitoring conditions in underground water pipes and partnered with the Buried Asset Management...
TEL AVIV, Israel, September 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RiT Technologies (NASDAQ: RITT) today announced that it has reached the final development stage of PV+, its new IIM hardware family. The PV+ product family will support both interconnect and cross-connect network topologies using unique dual-wire bus technology for high speed asynchronous scanning. RiT plans to release the product for full production during the first quarter of 2013, and to release a Beta version...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online European researchers are creating new ways to integrate the Web, social networks and television to provide an enhanced, interactive viewing experience for users across all types of media and devices. The three-year, EU-funded research project, known as NoTube, assembled an international consortium of companies in the digital and broadcasting industries, along with experts in platform integration, with the goal of linking online...
AMSTERDAM, January 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Funding Body Will Use Publications and Citations Data to Track Success of Funded Projects Elsevier's SciVerse Scopus (http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/) database was selected by the European Research Council (ERC) to assist in the tracking and awarding of funding opportunities for researchers throughout the world. The ERC, the European funding body managing the 'Ideas Programme of the European Commission's Seventh...
LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Europe is moving towards becoming a knowledge-based economy. Keeping in line with this objective, the European commission has instituted the Framework 7 (FP7) programme. Launched to support the re-launched Lisbon strategy, FP7 focuses on research themes rather than the framework programmes of the past. It has been designed to meet some of the persisting challenges of raising Europe to match global excellence in research, thereby benefiting the European life...
