The European Commission has published a booklet on the Horizon 2020 website entitled ‘Investing in Success: Research and innovation to boost growth and jobs in Europe’. Horizon 2020 will succeed the current Framework Programme for Research and Innovation – Framework…
First ERC Synergy Grant call attracts 710 proposals
The European Research Council (ERC) has reported that they received a total of 710 proposals in the first ERC Synergy Grant call. The new ERC funding scheme was introduced on a pilot basis for exceptional proposals with the intention of enabling a small group of Principal Investigators…
Denmark pushing for May agreement on overall structure of Horizon 2020
According to an article published in the latest issue of Research Europe, Denmark aims to have a partial agreement in place on Horizon 2020 by May 2012. The agreement, which would cover the scope and structure of Horizon 2020, would…
Simplicity and Flexibility for Horizon 2020
The six month Danish EU presidency, which started on the 1st January, will aim to ensure more simplicity and flexibility in Horizon 2020, which will replace Framework Programme 7 in 2014: Horizon 2020 aims to promote European research and technological…
Shakespeare’s Tempest in Three Languages – and Funded by the EC!
Here’s an update on STORM, an EC funded project performing the Tempest in different languages and locations in Lincoln, Portugal and Poland: From Albanian to Zulu the work of William Shakespeare has been translated into more than 80 languages during…
UKRO Summarises Horizon 2020 Workshops
The UK Research Office has recently published a series of summaries of consultation workshops on the EC’s next Framework Programme, called Horizon 2020. These workshops are part of the EC’s initial preparations for its proposals on the funding programme, which…