The EU’s clinical trials directive has been a catastrophe but Brussels is keen to make amends “Arguably the most criticised piece of legislation” the EU has ever produced on medicines. That’s how the European Commission describes its own law on clinical trials, drafted a decade ago in an effort to streamline medical research in Europe.… » read more
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Shalom from Israel! The Israeli EUREKA Chairmanship holds its first meeting in Tel Aviv
November 8, 2010
From listening to speeches by Israel’s Chief Scientist Dr. Eli Opper and the Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor Binyamin Ben Eliezer, to test-driving electric cars produced by Israeli company Better Place, EUREKA delegates had an action-packed week this past October during the first NPC-HLG Meeting in Israel. The busy agenda certainly suited the… » read more
Luuk Borg, Director of the Brussels based EUREKA Secretariat, discusses the prospects for the coming year. Under the Israeli Presidency, EUREKA looks set for rapid progress, a number of developments with new potential member nations and more. Mr Borg was interviewed at the 2010 European Business Summit in Brussels.
Israel Takes EUREKA Chair
June 25, 2010
Today – 25th June 2010 – Israel officially became Chair of the rotating presidency of the EUREKA Network. The handover from Germany took place in Berlin at the annual Ministers Conference. To accept the chair, Israeli Minister for Industry, Trade and Labour, Binjamin Ben Eliezer addressed the conference about his hopes for the coming year.… » read more
Vous disposez peut-être de la meilleure technologie du monde. Si elle ne répond à aucun besoin ou demande humaine, il est probable qu’elle reste à jamais une belle oeuvre… inutile… L’innovation ouverte permet aujourd’hui de réduire ce risque. Des plates-formes d’open innovation comme Innocentive, Hypios ou BetaVine, sont de plus en plus populaires, semble-t-il.
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Hanover, Germany, 19 April 2010— Even with Europe’s planes grounded, EUREKA’s participation at the annual Hannover Messe got off to a flying start today, with a visit by Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan to the EUREKA stand and a well-attended press conference led by European Parliamentarian Godlieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl, Walter Mönig, […]
Hospitals of the future
February 18, 2010
ERRIN event invitation: “Hospitals of the future: care, sustainable development and regional advantage“ Date: 2 March 2010, 9.00 – 16.45 Venue: South Tyrol EU Office, Rue de Pascale 45-47, 1040 Brussels. While we are all familiar with hospitals and demand high quality healthcare, the hospital itself is in many cases an institution that remains largely… » read more
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Ridge, Norway on the way to become vital CO2 Laboratory
December 18, 2009
This first Norwegian-French-British 4-year project, labeled by EUROGIA+ and being funded by both Gassnova and French DGCIS cumulated more than 11 Million Euros. This is a major success which was all done within 9 months. If the Hurum site is found to be suitable, the project will go forward into its […]
MaxCaps Research Project launched
November 16, 2009
MaxCaps Research Project has been launched as a project within the European Medea+ (a EUREKA cluster) research programme. The research project aims at developing methods to integrate capacitors on silicon chips, thereby cutting the number of discrete capacitors at present mounted on printed circuit boards (PCB) by nearly 30 per cent. Designers can, by integrating… » read more
Eurostars Funding Agencies Conference: Supporting the entrepreneurial stars of Europe
October 7, 2009
<!–[if !mso]> <! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } –> This year’s Eurostars Funding Agencies Conference took place on Thursday 1 October in Brussels. Over 55 participants representing many of the Eurostars participating countries, funding agencies and representatives from the European Commission were present. Future cooperation of funding agencies, synchronisation and further involvement at a regional level […]
Returning to the daily routine after a long, and hot, summer break is always characterised by mixed feelings. Part wishes the languorous morning routines to carry on whilst other forces bring a refreshed mind optimistic about the challenges ahead. This morning’s bright and early start in Brussels was illuminated by two articles in the Financial… » read more
Israel to head the world’s largest R&D initiative
August 3, 2009
Israel belongs to the Asian continent, but when it comes to research and development the US and Europe seem closer to home. And like most countries operating in today’s global village, Israel relies on cooperation with industrial partners from the European Union and the US to propel its high-tech and biotech products into the world… » read more
Event report: ERRIN Briefing: Lisbon in Practice – Regional attractiveness for R&D investment, 8 July 2009, Brussels All the more recent growth theories are placing innovation at the heart of what drives creativity and growth in countries and regions. However, the available data shows that there is a huge amount of inertia, a fact that… » read more
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EUREKA Innovation Days 2009: Jerzy Tokarski
July 7, 2009
At the 2009 Innovation Days event in Lisbon, Blogactiv was able to speak to Jerzy Tokarski. Jerzy works for EUREKA NPC in Poland and displayed and explained some of the new products and innovations on the EUREKA stands.
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At the EUREKA Innovation Days event in Lisbon, Blogactiv was able to speak to Heinz Bruggemann. Mr Bruggemann is Director of Celtic Telecommunication Solutions in Heidelberg, Germany. He spoke to us about Eureka and the impact they have.
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One of the most visual demonstrations at the 2009 Eureka Innovation Days event came from the Institute of Systems and Robotics in Lisbon. We spoke to Manuel Lopes about their very cool robotics technology and how their program is an example to innovators.
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Blogactiv was able to speak to Joao Correia de Oliveira at the EUREKA Innovation Days event in Lisbon. Joao is Director de Projectos Especiais for aosol – a solar energy company. He explains some of the work and development of their new solar product.
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Blogactiv was able to speak to a number of exhibitors at the 2009 Eureka Innovation Days event. One of these exhibitors was Jose Condeco, a researcher from the Chemistry division of Omnidea. He explained their work to us…
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Blogactiv was pleased to be able to speak to Helena Afonso at the 2009 EUREKA Innovation Days event in Lisbon, Portugal. Helena represents a Portugese company called Revigres. They have developed an incredible new technology that enables ceramic tiles to be turned into solar panels!
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Eureka Innovation Days 2009: Renata Gomes
June 29, 2009
Blogactiv spoke to a number of exhibitors at the Innovation Days event in Lisbon, Portugal. Eureka supports ideas on their merits which means that a very wide range of ideas and products were being represented. Renata Gomes was representing the University of Coimbra and their Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology and the Lino Ferreira… » read more
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