To complement hackathons taking place at global and member state level, the European Commission - in close collaboration with EU member states – will host a pan-European hackathon to connect civil society, innovators, partners and buyers across Europe to develop innovative solutions to coronavirus.
The European Commission has decided to fund another project as part of its emergency call for urgently needed research and innovation into the coronavirus. This means it will support 18 projects with a total of €48.5 million from Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme.
The Horizon 2020 project SOPHIE released a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for the short and medium term that outlines the link between Ocean Health and Human Health (OHH), the research needed to answer fundamental questions in the field and the framework for creating the required OHH research capacity in Europe.
The Research Executive Agency has received 200 proposals for the last Horizon 2020 space research call, which closed on 5 March 2020. The call includes topics in the areas of Earth Observation, space business and entrepreneurship, developing European space technologies, scientific data exploitation, and space traffic management.
The European Commission is launching a call for ideas to gather recommendations and suggestions for priorities and research and innovation (R&I) activities for the quantum communication infrastructure (QCI) initiative.