As Science|Business celebrates the 1000th issue of its newsletter this month, we republish this story from October 2013 by Joanne O’Dea, who found out some Horizon 2020 draft work programmes were circulating among a select group of research institutes and universities before the European Commission had published them
Entrepreneur Hermann Hauser gives a positive account of the UK’s Fraunhofer-style innovation centres, but says further substantial investment is needed to exploit the country’s world-leading science base
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is, “the university that built Norway”. Upholding this tradition calls for cooperation with institutions worldwide, links with industry, and home-based facilities that are centres of gravity for international researchers, says the Rector Gunnar Bovim
As negotiations come to an end and attention shifts to the finer details, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 work programme in Smart, green and integrated transport
Building a green economy featuring the sustainable use of natural resources and resilience to the effects of climate change is the ambitious objective of the Horizon 2020 work programme, ‘Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials’
The work programme ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’ will award €248.5M over the next two years to help Europe make the best of its biological resources
The work programme on Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies, Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, aims both to bring new materials into use and to improve manufacturing processes and systems overall
Space research will move from intellectual curiosity to providing the underpinnings of a major industrial sector, if the Horizon 2020 work programme bears fruit
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