- Posted 04-May-2020
The future of the European Universities Initiative: EUA publishes position and survey report
The EUA has published the position “The future of the European Universities Initiative – the sector’s perspective” together with the results of the recent EUA survey on international strategic institutional partnerships and the European Universities Initiative.
- Posted 04-May-2020
Additional €150 million for the European Innovation Council to fund breakthrough ideas tackling coronavirus
The European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Pilot will work with an extra €150 million to support game-changing innovations to tackle the coronavirus crisis. The additional budget, approved by the European Commission, will fund the best start-ups and SMEs who applied under the March cut-off.
- Posted 04-May-2020
Coronavirus global response: The EU joins forces with global partners to kick-start a pledging effort
The European Union is joining forces with global partners to kick-start a pledging effort – the Coronavirus Global Response – starting on 4 May 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) and global health organisations have launched a joint call for action to develop fast and equitable access to safe, quality, effective and affordable diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines against coronavirus.
- Posted 04-May-2020
EU funded projects provide innovative learning tools revolutionising digital education
Teachers, parents and students are finding it difficult to keep in contact with one another. Finding reliable, easy to use digital education tools has also proven difficult during the first few weeks of the lockdown due to Coronavirus pandemic. Two EU projects are providing free online services to help teachers, parents and students to keep in touch and to excel while at home.
- Posted 04-May-2020
European Commission #EUvsVirus Hackathon identifies 117 solutions to support European and global recovery from the coronavirus outbreak
A total of 117 innovative solutions to tackle the coronavirus have been selected as winners of the European Innovation Council-led #EUvsVirus Hackathon.