Hungarian and international RDI news

The European Commission has launched #BeActiveAtHome, a social media campaign to motivate people to keep fit and on the move whilst confined to their homes.

From the outset, the JRC has mobilised its wide expertise to help the Commission understand the COVID-19 emergency, anticipate its impacts, and support contingency planning.

On 16 March, the European Commission offered up to €80 million of financial support to CureVac, a highly innovative vaccine developer from Tübingen, Germany, to scale up development and production of a vaccine against the Coronavirus in Europe.

The European Commission has added its support to a call to the scholarly publishing community urging them to make Covid-19 and coronavirus publications and the data supporting them immediately accessible to support the ongoing public health efforts.

Joint Research Centre scientists have designed a new control material that laboratories can use to check that coronavirus tests return correct results. Timely and accurate laboratory testing is an essential part of the management of the pandemic.

BBI JU is looking for experts to evaluate the 2020 Call for proposals. If you are interested in becoming the next BBI JU evaluator, apply before 14 April 2020.

The Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA) of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) is a roadmap with milestones for 2030 and and forms the basis for the new PPP.

The EUREKA Clusters CELTIC-NEXT, EUROGIA, ITEA3, and PENTA-EURIPIDES², have perceived a common cross domain interest in developing, adapting and utilising emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) within and across their focus areas.

On 11 February 2020, International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Commissioner Gabriel launched the 7th edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. Applications are now open until Tuesday 21 April at 17:00 CET (Brussels time).

EIT Food Seedbed supports people, who have entrepreneurial ideas in areas related to the agri-food sector or have already established a start-up company.

CERIC-ERIC offers access through a single entry point to more than 50 different and complementary state of the art techniques and support laboratories, distributed in 8 countries, with the submission of single or multi-technique proposals.

The call for the 25th nominations has started. The Keio Medical Science Prize gives recognition to the outstanding and creative achievements of researchers in the fields of medicine and life sciences, in particular those contributing to scientific developments in medicine.

Hungarian participant are also invited to apply for EIT Food Seedbed, a free-of-charge program supporting innovative agri-food startups.

INNOWWIDE is a three-year Coordination and Support Action that aims to provide funding to European innovative SMEs and start-ups to conduct Viability Assessment Projects (VAPs) in markets outside of Europe. The project aims to support the scaleup and internationalisation of European companies.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) presents its compliments to the Permanent and Observer Missions to UN-Habitat in Nairobi and to the United Nations in New York and has the honour to share the call for applications for the 2019 Dubai International Best Practices Award for Sustainable Development.

PowerUp! is the challenge for start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs from Central and Eastern Europe whose products in the fields of energy, smart technologies, mobility are solving today's problems with tomorrow's technology.

V4 Innovators in Israel Training Program supports young entrepreneurs/start-uppers and incubators’ representatives/employees based on Memorandum of understanding on training cooperation in the field of innovation between the Visegrad countries and the government of the State of Israel and the International Visegrad Fund.

A project with hungarian contribution was awarded in Amsterdam on 3^rd September 2019 on the annual launch conference of ITEA 3, a program focusing on R&D and Innovation in the Software Industry.