Innovation News

The EU is introducing new rules which will provide businesses with a more transparent, fair and predictable online business environment, as well as an efficient system for seeking redress. The [...]

Today and tomorrow, the 8th edition of the Digital Assembly is taking place in Bucharest, Romania. The event, co-organised by the Commission and the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the [...]

What is the Digital Economy and Society Index? The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) is a composite index published every year by the European Commission since 2014, measuring the progress [...]

In the framework of its own initiative opinion, the EESC organizes on 24 June 2019 a public hearing on “Blockchain and the EU Single Market: what next?”. Source: Blockchain and the EU [...]

Today, the European Commission is releasing the results of the 2019 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which monitors Europe’s overall digital performance and tracks the progress of [...]

From today, innovative companies can apply for up to €17.5 million in combined grant and equity financing to scale-up quickly and effectively through the EIC ‘Accelerator’ pilot, increasing [...]

Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas announced today at the VivaTech conference in Paris the four winners of the 2019 EU Prize for Women Innovators. The prize is funded [...]

This year’s theme for UN World Environment Day is improving air quality. With so many avenues to explore, photocatalytic materials are seen as one way to reduce air pollution. Several LIFE [...]

Hi-tech driver assistance systems being developed by EU-funded researchers aim to perfect the link between human and machine in self-driving cars. This could help prevent accidents and fatalities [...]

An EU-funded project developed new plastic bottle marking, identification and sorting technology, facilitating the separation and reuse of packaging that has been used for food and drink. Source: [...]

Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager made a suggestion at the re:publica conference in Berlin: “Access to data has to be redesigned so that newcomers can compete with big tech giants”. In [...]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will more than double the rate of innovation at organisations and employee productivity in India by 2021, a Microsoft-IDC finding said. Source: Artificial [...]