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Changing the lives of patients with brai...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 1 Health

Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive form of adult primary brain cancer, for which there is currently no cure. Discover how the team behind the GLIOTRAIN project won #Horizon2020 funding to tackle the disease.

Rockfield set to disrupt global tube fee...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 1 Health

As a person with cystic fibrosis, Tomás Thompson was acutely aware of the challenges of tube feeding and how much they affected patients’ quality of life. “Over the past 40 years, lots of medical devices have changed hugely,” explains Thompson, founder, and CEO of Rockfield Medical Devices.

TRA (Transport Reseach Arena) Dublin 202...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 5 Climate, Energy and Mobility

Transport Research Arena (TRA) is the foremost European transport event that covers all transport modes and all aspects of mobility. In 2024, TRA takes place in Dublin, Ireland between 15th and 18th April 2024.

Horizon Europe Brokerage Event – C...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

A Horizon Europe Brokerage Event titled ‘Cluster 4 Space calls 2023 & 2024’ took place on 2nd February 2023. The 2.5 hours virtual event introduced the Cluster 4 space calls for proposals for the next two years, presented insights and expectations from the European Commission, 12 pitches were introduced for potential collaborations and the virtual brokerage event allowed participants to create strategic partnerships through scheduled one-to-one meetings.

Partnerships for Regional Innovation: Th...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Joint Research Centre

For your information, please see the full presentation in the attached, and below for the short Bionotes of the experts Margherita Bacigalupo and Dimitrios Pontikakis.

Recruiting campaign launched by the Euro...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Joint Research Centre

The European Commission has launched the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT), which will work, within the Joint Research Centre (JRC), as a one-of-a-kind scientific service to support the enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Harnessing digital tech to slash energy ...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

Harnessing digital tech to slash energy use in manufacturing, the EU-funded DENiM project is developing an integrated toolchain for the provision of advanced digital services for smart energy management. Funded to the tune of €11m by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.

The next pandemic: ensuring a coherent E...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme to the tune of €10 million, PANDEM-2 aims to enhance and harmonise pandemic response across the EU. Effectively, Connolly says, the project will give EU member states a training platform for pandemic preparedness and response.

Steering the way to better electric vehi...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 5 Climate, Energy and Mobility

The drive to Net Zero and the need for all of us to help reduce emissions means that electric vehicles (EVs) need to become completely commonplace. The rate of EV uptake needs to improve, however, and for that to happen, EV batteries need to be cheaper, recharge faster and enable vehicles to go further without needing to be charged.

Europe scales up 6G research investments...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Digital

The Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) selected its first portfolio of 35 research, innovation, and trial projects to enable the evolution of 5G ecosystems and promote 6G research in Europe. With a combined funding for this new portfolio of around €250 million under Horizon Europe, the aim is to build a first-class European supply chain for advanced 5G systems and build Europe’s 6G technology capacities.

EU funding enables vital ‘human-centric’...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ever more embedded in business and society, the EU has declared the need for a ‘human-centric’ approach to AI. TU Dublin has teamed up with 13 partners from across Europe to create ‘CISC’ (Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical systems), a MSCA Innovative Training Network project. Funded by Horizon 2020, the project aims to hire, train and mentor early-stage researchers as collaborative intelligence (CI) scientists.

GENEGUT project aims to transform treatm...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 1 Health

Professor Caitriona O’Driscoll of University College Cork (UCC) has successfully secured EU funding under Horizon Europe as coordinator of GENEGUT: a project on oral delivery of encapsulated RNA nanotherapeutics for targeted treatment of ileal Crohn’s disease.

The Health Cluster -Pillar 2

by Dr Martha Cahill

Cluster 1 Health

Health is the focus of the cluster 1 area in Horizon Europe, the next research and innovation framework programme spanning from 2021 -2027

MENTUPP – Mental Health Promotion ...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 1 Health

Birgit Greiner and 17 partners in 14 other countries* combines expertise from various disciplines to improve the early recognition and treatment of depression in occupational settings and reduce suicidal behaviour.

+CityxChange helping to create the posit...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 5 Climate, Energy and Mobility

“Horizon 2020, and its successor Horizon Europe, are designed for innovation. It enables participants to take risks and therefore achieve more.” Terry Connolly, Limerick city and County Council, +CityxChange project.

Project SpeakingNGI – Shaping the intern...

by Dr Martha Cahill

Digital

We are delighted and proud to have contributed to the successful building of the EU’s flagship Next Generation Internet – An Open Internet Initiative (NGI)”. Walton Institute’s Strategic EU Liaison Manager and coordinator of the SpeakNGI.eu project, James Clarke.

Project INSPECTr: Supporting the fight a...

by Dr Martha Cahill

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

“We felt we had to do this project because the problem and the solution are so important. We were just waiting for the opportunity and Horizon 2020 provided that.” Cheryl Baker, Director, UCD Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation.

JRC Scientific trainees – Call for...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Horizon Europe

The JRC has launched the second call for Scientific Trainees. Applicants can choose from an extensive number of fields, some of which also include laboratory experience. Deadline for applications 31/05/2022.

Interested in contributing to internatio...

by Stephen O'Reilly

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

StandICT.eu (a CSA project supported by the European Union’s Horizon […]

GreenComp: the European sustainability c...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Horizon Europe

The Commission’s proposal from the 14th of January is available […]

Horizon 2020 funding for palliative care...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 1 Health

A look back at three Irish teams that secured €1.36 million funding from the European Commission. The three teams were among ten projects that won funding under the Horizon 2020 Health call. They began their respective research programmes in 2019.

LEDLUM, a shining light in LED efficienc...

by Anne-Marie Daly

Cluster 5 Climate, Energy and Mobility

“Horizon 2020 was about putting together the right consortium that could do cutting-edge research and also produce something that can be commercialized in the near future.” Paul McCloskey, Head of Integrated Magnetics group at Tyndall National Institute.

Project MUSKETEER: Supporting the develo...

by Dr Martha Cahill

Digital

“In collaboration 1+1 is more than 2. When you work with other parties you will achieve much more than you planned to.” Gal Weiss, IBM, Co-ordinator of the MUSKETEER Horizon 2020 project.

Civil Security for Society Cluster 3 Pil...

by Dr Martha Cahill

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

Security is one of the main concerns for the EU’s citizens and is therefore among the top priorities for the European Commission Horizon Europe programme.

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Rockfield set to disrupt global tube fee...

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The next pandemic: ensuring a coherent E...

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GENEGUT project aims to transform treatm...

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