Tag: Innovation

EU Prize for Women Innovators 2018

Prizes: four cash prizes will be awarded to the most innovative women entrepreneurs First Prize: €100 000 Second Prize: €50 000 Third Prize: €30 000 Rising Innovator: €20 000 The contest is open to women across the EU (or country associated to Horizon 2020) who have: – Founded a successful company and brought innovation to …

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Senior Associate, Global Energy Innovation at ECF – European Climate Foundation

Senior Associate, Global Energy Innovation ECF – European Climate Foundation Location: Paris, France About the European Climate Foundation The European Climate Foundation (ECF) was established in 2008 as a major philanthropic initiative to help Europe foster the development of a low-carbon society and play an even stronger international leadership role to mitigate climate change. The …

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Ten cities enter the final round of the 2017 European Capital of Innovation contest

Ten cities using the most innovative ideas to improve quality of life and to involve citizens in community life have reached the final stage of the European Capital of Innovation Award 2017, announced European Commission today. Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said: “Every new edition of the European Capital of Innovation showcases …

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Seizing Europe’s Data Innovation Opportunity

Monday, 29 February 14:00 – 18:30 Location: Brussels, Belgium While the data revolution is poised to unlock enormous economic value, create new opportunities for scientific discovery, and improve quality of life for hundreds of millions of Europeans, these advancements will only be possible if Europe embraces policies to support innovation in the data economy. In some areas, such as …

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EU Prize for women innovators 2016

The EU Prize for Women Innovators was launched in 2011 to give public recognition to outstanding women entrepreneurs who brought their innovative ideas to the market. After two successful editions in 2011 and 2014, the European Commission is launching the third edition of the prize on 9 March 2015 Three prizes will be awarded at …

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Commission announces €100 million Fast Track to Innovation and five innovation prizes

The European Commission (EC) presented details of a new €100 million “Fast Track to Innovation” (FTI) pilot action and five innovation prizes under Horizon 2020, the European Union’s €80 billion research and innovation programme. The FTI aims to support Europe’s economy by offering innovative businesses and organisations grants to give a final push to get great …

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European Union Contest for Young Scientists

EUCYS 2014 Warsaw The EUCYS – European Union Contest for Young Scientists is an initiative of the European Commission that was set up in 1989 with the goal of promoting cooperation and interchange between young scientists and guiding them towards a future career in science and technology. The event is an annual exhibition of the …

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Compete for the Ericsson Application Awards

Compete for the Ericsson Application Awards Who can enter the competition? The competition is global and open to both students and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) (less than 100 employees). There are two categories: one for students and one for companies. There will also be a special recognition for innovation supporting Technology for Good. Requirements …

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European Social Innovation Competition

Do you have an idea to fight high unemployment? Do you think you could improve the working conditions of people stuck in low-paid jobs – whether because of their gender, age, social status or handicap? Do you know how to enhance opportunities for the 27 million Europeans currently out of work? Then the second European …

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Junior Expert Trainers of Teacher Trainers for Supporting Capacity Development of Practice Schools needed

Vacancy at the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia – Junior Expert Trainers of Teacher Trainers for Supporting Capacity Development of Practice Schools Support Human Capital Development and Research is a project funded by the European Union. The project objective is to contribute to human capital development through strengthening the “knowledge …

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