• Posted 16-May-2019

How can Europe benefit from blockchain technologies?

Blockchain is the best known distributed ledger technology. A ledger keeps a final and definitive record of transactions.


  • Posted 16-May-2019

#DigitalYou - Digital Culture

The European Union is investing in Europe’s cultural and creative sectors through the Digital Single Market, benefiting citizens by removing online barriers.


  • Posted 16-May-2019

Horizon Europe sign-off ‘sends signal’ to EU budget negotiators, says Moedas

EU leaders and scientists need to loudly “defend” the proposed increase in EU research funding ahead of crunch budget talks in the autumn, said research commissioner Carlos Moedas, speaking after the Parliament’s industry and research committee passed a deal on Tuesday 02 April that paints an enthusiastic vision of the EU’s future research prowess, with more money for Horizon Europe than any EU research programme to date.


  • Posted 10-Apr-2019

Search is on for new steward to deliver Plan S open access

Robert-Jan Smits finished his one year mandate as the European Commission’s open access envoy end of Ferbrury and will be replaced for now by Robert Kiely, head of open research at the Wellcome Trust, until a long-term coordinator for the Plan S open access initiative is appointed.


  • Posted 10-Apr-2019

Launch of six European initiatives with potential for transformational impact on society and the economy

The European Commission is announcing the winners of a pan-European competition open to researchers addressing grand scientific and technological challenges that could change our future.