22/02/2022: The Insider podcast with Susana Cardoso Freitas (INESC MN), OECD on classifying AI systems, Innovation Factory 2022, FORCE Research Challenge, and more.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– Deep Tech: Driving the Digital Transition – Microsystems and Nanotech with Susana Cardoso Freitas (INESC MN);
– OECD Framework for the Classification of AI systems;
– FORCE Research Challenge;
– Innovation Factory 2022: for a strong digital Europe;
– Workshop on the extended generic risk management approach under REACH;
– Horizon Europe €1.2 billion industrial partnership for rail R&I officially kicks off;
– Digital for Development Prize 2022;
– UK Horizon winners can now apply for safety net funding;
– LEAK: Energy prices will remain ‘high and volatile until at least 2023’, EU Commission says;
– EU-funded research reveals new life in the Arctic Ocean;
– Open position for a Researcher in Drought Modelling and Risk Assessment.

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21/02/2022: EIC, Copernicus and the Green Deal, Horizon Impact Award, Foresight Portugal, EU Organic Awards, Promotion of use of algae, New Research Fund for Coal and Steel Calls, and more.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– EIC working paper – Identification of Emerging Technologies and Breakthrough Innovations;
– Copernicus and the Green Deal – a DG Defence, Industry and Space Workshop;
– Horizon Impact Award 2022 contest open;
– 2030 Foresight Portugal;
– Italian Centre for Research on Risk Reduction CI3R – Call for Experts;
– Launch of the first EU Organic Awards;
– European Commission launches platform to promote production and use of algae in Europe;
– Commission supports the creation of a partnership for skills in the agri-food ecosystem;
– New Research Fund for Coal and Steel Calls;
– Hazardous substances in the workplace: EP approves deal for stricter EU rules;
– New EU-AU Innovation Agenda to drive sustainable growth and jobs;
– EU challenges China’s defiance of intellectual property rules.

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10/02/2022: EIC online info-day, HERA programme is out, Women in academia webinar, Western Balkans fully part of Horizon Europe, and more.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– Save the date: European Innovation Council online info-day – 22 February;
– HERA: €1.3 billion plan for first year of new pandemic preparedness programme is out;
– Women in academia: Breaking the glass ceiling or rebuilding the house? – Webinar;
– Validation survey on the “Low-Carbon Industrial Technologies Roadmap for Energy-Intensive Industries;
– Latest ERC winners in limbo as expiry of UK Horizon Europe safety net looms;
– Quantum Ambitions: Strengthening Europe’s leadership;
– Albania completes the Western Balkans association to Horizon Europe;
– New Booklet – Trust in the European digital space in the age of automated bots and fakes;
– New Thematic Report: Blockchain Applications in the Healthcare Sector;
– Energy prices on the rise in the euro area in 2021;
– Opening of exploratory talks for the association of New Zealand to Horizon Europe;
– Brussels to address hazardous chemicals in EU products initiative.

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10/02/2022: HE Cluster 4 Consultation Session, French Presidency Events, EIC Work Programme 2022 published, “The Insider” – new episode, and more.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– Info and Consultation session: Cluster 4 (Digital, Industry and Space) and testing and experimentation facilities;
– AI for Industry and Society: Trust and Frugality;
– Horizon Europe: The first assessment – initial feedback;
– Quantum Ambitions: Strengthening Europe’s leadership;
– “The Insider” – new episode with Ben Glocker;
– EU Datathon 2022;
– EIC Work Programme 2022 finally published;
– EU’s energy import dependency decreased in 2020;
– Food biotechnology and food safety: finding answers;
– Fusion energy breakthrough at the world-leading Joint European Torus facility;
– We need to speak the language of companies, not Eurocrats.

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09/02/2022: European Cyber Security Conference, Stick to Science, European Chips Act, EU rules on mercury, Carbon farming, and more.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– The 9th Annual European Cyber Security Conference;
– Research and Innovation community urges European leaders to take action on Horizon Europe;
– France helps Brussels move ahead with ‘disruptive’ plan for research assessment;
– European Chips Act: Communication, Regulation, Joint Undertaking and Recommendation;
– Creative industries are slowly making their way into mainstream European research;
– Zero Pollution: Commission seeks views on review of EU rules on use of mercury;
– Carbon farming: EU ministers find the devil in the details.

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08/02/2022: Info-days on Horizon Europe, EIC 2022 work programme released tomorrow, EU’s battle against cancer, US-EU Energy Council, and more.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– Info-days regarding Horizon Europe;
– European Innovation Council’s 2022 work programme to be released tomorrow;
– Is ERC open to higher TRLs?;
– How can the EU do more to fight cancer?;
– Top experts to advise the Commission on transformative R&I policy in support of social, green and digital transitions;
– The 9th US-EU Energy Council;
– New software to calculate ammonia emissions in agriculture and livestock;
– New rules for reporting on the reduction of single-use plastic food containers adopted.

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02/02/2022: Deep tech in the agrisector, , Digital Identitity, Research Infrastructures, Ethics in ERC, Lump sum funding and more.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– Deep Tech in the Agrisector – a podcast episode with Armando Fernandes (INOV);
– ICRI – International Conference on Research Infrastructures;
– Ethics in ERC projects, Seminar, 17 February;
– Member States break European Innovation Council’s work programme deadlock;
– Renewables on the rise, coal continuously falling;
– Plans for lump-sum funding in Horizon Europe move forward amid scepticism;
– Digital Identity: Leveraging the SSI Concept to Build Trust;
– Identification and assessment of existing and draft EU legislation in the digital field;
– Turning harmful CO2 into useful chemicals;
– High electricity prices, renewables and windfall profits – all paid for by EU citizens.

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31/01/2022: Horizon Europe twinning call, EU Soil Mission Board, EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, Europe’s energy and climate security policy.

In today’s Morning Brief:
– Horizon Europe twinning call receives 391 proposals;
– Call for applicants to join the EU Soil Mission Board;
– EU Members push to get EIC investment fund moving, breaking policy deadlock;
– Biodiversity: EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030;
– UK Government launches new scheme for technologies producing hydrogen from biomass;
– The missing element of Europe’s energy and climate security policy;
– Launch of the stakeholder community of practice on the smart use of intellectual property.

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28/01/2022: “The Insider” – new episode, Horizon Europe Cluster 6 presentation, Research Assessment process, Innovative Health Initiative

In today’s Morning Brief:
– “The Insider” – new episode with Inna Braverman, co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power
– Horizon Europe – Cluster 6 (Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment) Presentation and Consultation
– EU to go ahead with reform of its research assessment process in the face of scepticism
– Guidelines on State aid for Climate, Environmental Protection and Energy 2022
– Horizon Europe gets a lukewarm welcome from researchers
– €800 million new European Biodiversity Partnership to spearhead protection of earth’s biodiversity
– €2.4B Innovative Health Initiative kicks off
– Europe holds its own in supercomputer race
– 7th Plenary meeting of the African Union-European Union High-Level Policy Dialogue for Science, Technology and Innovation

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