by ATHENA | Mar 27, 2025 | News
The European Innovation Council selected 31 new projects under the 2024 EIC Pathfinder Challenges call for cutting edge research projects to achieve breakthroughs in five strategic areas. The successful projects were chosen among 401 submitted eligible proposals and...
by ATHENA | Mar 27, 2025 | News
The Commission has published the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Facility Roadmap which shows how the Commission will implement the NEB Facility 2025-2027. The NEB Facility is the first multiannual financial support tool for the New European Bauhaus to transform...
by ATHENA | Mar 27, 2025 | News
Demand for patents at the EPO remained robust, with filings in 2024 at the same high level seen in 2023. Key growth areas included AI-related inventions and battery technologies. In its second year, the popularity of the Unitary Patent surpassed expectations...
by ATHENA | Mar 27, 2025 | News
The globalization of Horizon Europe (FP9), the European Union’s (EU) key funding programme for research and innovation (R&I), has been an ambitious endeavour, expanding collaboration between excellent researchers and innovators across the globe. As the EU prepares...
by ATHENA | Mar 26, 2025 | News
The launch of UK Defence Innovation (UKDI), a fund under the MoD, had been previously announced by the government on 3 March. But the spring statement added new details, including that the fund will have “a ringfenced budget of £400m from next month, which will...
by ATHENA | Mar 26, 2025 | News
Globalization 1.0 has failed, but protectionist autarky cannot be its replacement. Instead, it is past time to craft a new kind of globalization that advances U.S. interests in key industries and prevents China from becoming the dominant techno-economic power....
