Innovation News

The Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU organised an informal videoconference of EU research ministers to discuss joint research and innovation response to COVID-19. The videoconference [...]

Greenhouse gas emissions are down and air quality has gone up, as governments react to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Inger Andersen, has [...]

The EC’s ambitious new Industrial Strategy names Photonics among a list of KETs which are vital to the industrial transformation of Europe by 2030. Photonics and a whole host of Key Enabling [...]

Photonics technologies can contribute to 3 billion tons less carbon dioxide per year by 2030. A new study by SPECTARIS, the Fraunhofer Institute, TEMATYS and Messe Munchen shows that photonics [...]

Anti-fouling, ‘hydrophobic’ metal or plastic surfaces that imitate shark skins, engraved by a new laser technology being developed by European scientists, could soon replace the toxic varnishes [...]

3,500 high-tech jobs will be created in Europe thanks to Horizon 2020 Photonics projects A new survey found the 100 Photonics projects, established in Horizon 2020 from 2014 to 2018, will create [...]

European scientists are using photonics to develop a low emission, 1.6 terabyte-per-second speed internet that will reduce power consumption by 50% per Gb/s The Horizon 2020 funded consortium [...]

A new report by Tematys has confirmed the vital role photonics plays in innovation. Assessing 794 Horizon 2020 projects from 2014 to April 2019 for their photonics content, Tematys has [...]

According to a new report, European Photonics PPP projects funded under Horizon 2020 have shown five-fold leverage on the money invested by the EU. One hundred photonics projects from 2014 to [...]

A biophotonic workshop hosted by the European Commission is set to examine the latest developments in clinical diagnostics. Billed as a performance assessment and standardisation activity, the [...]

The energy system is one of the most complex and largest infrastructures in Europe as well as one of the most critical assets for a modern society and its economic activities, welfare and [...]

On 26-27 September, the Office will hold the IP Horizon 5.0 Conference: Mapping opportunities and challenges in a globalised economy. Source: IP Horizon 5.0 – {feed_title}