by ATHENA | Mar 5, 2024 | News
Innovation is critical for companies to remain successful over the long term. At the same time, innovation demands large investments and entails a lot of risk. “An innovation project can quickly cost CHF 2 million, and it takes a good two years until we know if...
by ATHENA | Mar 5, 2024 | News
Despite an unstable global economy, Swedish startups in 2023 continued to draw in investments totaling 4.7 billion euros. Almost 75% of the total venture capital investment was raised by impact startups. These and more insights are highlighted in the report Sweden...
by ATHENA | Mar 4, 2024 | News
“There is no room for any more illusions,” European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said as she called for the bloc to get serious about its defence on Wednesday. Ongoing geopolitical tensions require “a new European defence mindset from institutions to...
by ATHENA | Mar 4, 2024 | News
The third call of the MSCA-funded Staff Exchanges scheme under Horizon Europe closed on 28 February 2024. The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 233 proposals under this call, requesting a total budget close to € 252.89 million. The call will fund...
by ATHENA | Mar 2, 2024 | News
The informal meeting of higher education ministers took place at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on Thursday 29 February and Friday 1 March 2024. This was an opportunity to look at a key theme for European integration, ie student mobility leading to qualifications....
by ATHENA | Mar 1, 2024 | News
Coimbra Group member universities are offering almost 90 scholarships for young professors and researchers that are both national and residents of Latin American, Sub-Saharan Africa or European neighbourhood countries. With the aim to enable scholars to...
