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Our energy infrastructure – an ambitions approach
In a speech made to the Council of European Energy Regulators in January this year, the EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger outlined the EC’s ambitions plans not only to ensure that emissions are cut by 80 per cent by 2050, but that supplies are maintained through improved infrastructure and better policy. ...
Published on 17/05/12 by
Category: Energy
Tags: energy, funding, future, innovation
The year when ageing becomes active
William Davis talks to Peter Winlev-Jensen, Deputy Head of Unit, DG INFSO, about the EU’s European Year of Active Ageing, which starts in 2012, a year in which he hopes the whole of society will become more aware of the challenges we all face as we seek to live longer and happier lives ...
Published on 02/04/12 by
Category: Science and Technology
Tags: aal, ageing, ict, innovation, society
Partnering innovation to meet Europe’s great challenges
In an exclusive interview, Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, a cabinet member and senior adviser to Vice President Neelie Kroes, European Commission, responsible for the Digital Agenda, explains how the European Innovation Partnership has gone about addressing active and healthy ageing with its first pilot programme and how this ties in perfectly with the work being done by the AAL Joint Programme...
Published on 16/03/12 by
Category: Society/Economy
Tags: economy, industry, innovation, technology
Collaboration and coordination for a successful Europe
Prof. Dr. Ing. Francesco Fedi, immediate past-president of COST, who stepped down in 2010 after in his 40th year in association with the organisation, outlines COST's aims and objectives and remains positive for a successful future. ...
Published on 27/02/12 by
Category: Industry
Tags: science, society, technology
AAL Forum 2011 Executive Summary
In September, 2011, more than 600 delegates gathered for the third Annual Ambient Assisted Living Forum, this year held in Lecce, Italy. The three-day conference provided a platform for many AAL projects to showcase the work they have been doing as part of the programme and bring their products to the attention of an influential and receptive audience....
Published on 18/11/11 by Ellen Haggan
Category: Society/Economy
Tags: ageing, conference, innovation
Moving towards a Common Strategic Framework for funding
It has become clear that Europe is facing an innovation emergency – we must prioritise innovation to ensure that we don’t fall behind our competitors and to ensure a better quality of life for people in Europe. Research and innovation are at the very top of Europe’s political and economic agenda. ...
Published on 27/07/11 by Ellen Haggan
Category: Society/Economy
Tags: ec
Technology transfer – A contact sport that gets results
Dr Koen Verhoef, a scientist with a biology background, is manager of the technology transfer office at the Netherlands Cancer Institute as well as a vice-president at the Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP). Here he talks to William Davis about the growing importance of technology transfer and the need for planning...
Published on 26/07/11 by William Davis
Category: Industry
Tags: technology
Expediting scientific discovery in Europe
Professor Janet Thornton, Director of the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, coordinates ELIXIR, an ESFRI Research Infrastructure of global significance that will protect Europe’s treasure-trove of biological information. Here, she talks about how ELIXIR will allow competition and innovation to flourish in Europe’s health sector. ...
Published on 09/05/11 by William Davis
Category: Biology/Medicine
Tags: ec