Tagged: EU Commission & News
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#OI2Dublin - Open Innovation 2.0 round-up: interviews, award winners, and future cities in Lego News
23.05.2013 Hundreds of thought leaders, policy leaders, senior decision-makers, leading executives and social innovators descended on Dublin Castle earlier this week for the Open...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Leadership & Management, Government, Education, Economy, Development -
SMEs and job creation the focus of Dublin meeting of EU Enterprise ministers News
03.05.2013 EU Enterprise and Innovation ministers are in Dublin today for a series of talks on how SMEs could hold the key to creating jobs and drive European growth. -
EU researchers develop gadget that can sniff out explosives at 20 metres News
25.04.2013 EU scientists have come up with a prototype device that could prove invaluable in the fight against bomb attacks. The gadget capable of detecting extremely small quantities of...Tags: EU Commission, Security, -
Women still under-represented in science and research – European Commission News
05.04.2013 While the proportion of female researchers in Europe is increasing, the under-representation of women in scientific disciplines and careers remains prevalent – that’s according... -
Wind energy has a significant role in Europe beyond 2020 – Rabbitte News
04.02.2013 Ireland's Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, was in Vienna this morning to speak at the opening of the European Wind Energy Association's (EWEA) annual wind energy event, where... -
Belfast firm Action Renewables to lead €3.4m EU project on sustainable transport News
10.12.2012 Action Renewables, a Belfast-based adviser on renewable energy projects in Northern Ireland, is to head up a €3.4m EU project involving 12 partners that will aim to help... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 50-46 News
07.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
EU to introduce new supports for SMEs under Horizon 2020 News
05.10.2012 European Commissioner for Research and Innovation Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced new measures to support SMEs in developing high-potential innovations and bring them closer... -
Irish students win top prize at EU young scientists awards News
25.09.2012 Mark Kelly and Eric Doyle, this year’s overall winners at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, have today scooped another top award in Bratislava, Slovakia, at the... -
EU reveals its largest R&D fund yet with €8.1bn ready to invest News
09.07.2012 The EU Commissioner in charge of Innovation and Science Maire Geoghegan-Quinn will today unveil a new FP7 programme that will allocate €8.1bn to research and development...Categories: Telecommunications, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Communications -
Science needs more women says EU, as it launches ‘Science: it's a girl thing’ campaign News
21.06.2012 The European Commission has today launched a new three-year campaign targeted at getting more teenage girls interested in science. European Research, Innovation and Science...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Green, Graduate, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Education, Economy, Bio TechTags: Second Level, Jobs, Europe, Innovation, Research, STEM, Science, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, EU Commission, EU 27, EU -
Microbiology lecturer at UL gets €75,000 Marie Curie Fellowship News
15.05.2012 Dr Achim Schmalenberger, a lecturer in microbiology at University of Limerick (UL), has been awarded a €75,000 Marie Curie grant by the European Commission to take his soil... -
Irish firms lower greenhouse gas emissions in 2011 News
10.04.2012 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today said that emissions from Irish companies covered by the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) dropped from 17.36m tonnes in 2010 to...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Life Sciences, Green Tech, Engineering, Energy, Economy -
World’s first 4D flight lands in Stockholm News
10.02.2012 The world’s first-ever 4D flight has taken place this morning. The Airbus A320 test aircraft took off from Toulouse and headed to Copenhagen before swooping in over Stockholm,... -
IBM Science of Cities pulls scientific minds to Dublin News
28.10.2011 As Dublin prepares to be City of Science 2012, it was fitting that European Commissioner for Research and Innovation Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was at the IBM campus in Mulhuddart,... -
EU seeks 1,500 Irish volunteers to help with broadband study News
08.12.2011 The European Commission is seeking 1,500 volunteers in Ireland to help provide broadband performance benchmarks to help guide the commission’s €9bn investment in broadband...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Education, eCommerce, Communications, Economy -
Floor tiles that kill pathogens feature at EU innovation summit News
05.12.2011 Floor tiles created in Ireland that kill MRSA, E. coli and other disease-causing pathogens is being showcased at the first-ever, two-day European Innovation Convention taking... -
EU aims for an ‘Innovation Union’ via R&D link-ups News
25.11.2011 European Commissioner for Research and Innovation Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was in Ireland yesterday to visit Tyndall National Institute, where she gave a heads-up on the EU's new...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Jobs, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Global CIO, Financial Results, Financial, Engineering, Engineer, Economy, CIO, Careers and Employment, Bio Tech -
Ireland’s winning Microsoft Imagine Cup team in EU capital News
08.11.2011 The winning IT Sligo team Team Hermes, which competed against 350,000 students from 183 countries to win one of the world’s most prestigious student technology awards, is today...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Research, R&D, Education, Economy, Development -
How Ireland can spur on green jobs News
01.09.2011 If Ireland pursues energy efficiency strategies there is no doubt new green jobs can be created, the head of the European Commission Representation in Ireland Barbara Nolan told...