The State of European Tech 2017
A comprehensive and data-driven portrait of Europe’s technology ecosystem.
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A comprehensive and data-driven portrait of Europe’s technology ecosystem.
EU leaders highlighted their political support for enhanced cooperation in education.
European leaders and the European Commission have backed proposals to step up higher education mobility and exchanges and create a network of European universities with integrated study programmes and curricula that enable students to study abroad.
Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, has called for political leaders to speak more about science and innovation to connect people with the life-changing research that is funded by their taxes and has the potential to combat urgent global problems.
High-risk, high-reward ideas in areas such as AI, blockchain and synthetic biology are typical contenders for support from the EU’s new Innovation Council.
The Commission made the Declaration of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) available to all scientific stakeholders, for their endorsement and commitments to the realisation by 2020.
The next €1B flagship projects will target ICT, energy and health, according to the draft work programme for 2018-2020 published by the European Commission.
Britain will offer to keep paying more than £1 billion a year to the EU after Brexit to continue to participate in its science and research programmes.
Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.
Spanish researchers are still waiting for the full implementation of a law which was approved six years ago.