by ATHENA | Jun 12, 2025 | News
The European Comission announced the second group of companies that have successfully passed the evaluation phase of the EIC Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) Scale Up call. Together receiving up to a total of €90 million of equity investments, they...
by ATHENA | Jun 11, 2025 | News
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a new call to support the development of Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and next-generation software, known as Lighthouse Codes, that can tackle major scientific, industrial, and...
by ATHENA | Jun 11, 2025 | News
In a joint statement released on 10 June 2025, CESAER and The Guild member universities call on the European Commission and the member states to ensure widely spread and predictable call deadlines of Research and Innovation Framework Programmes. They also urge an...
by ATHENA | Jun 11, 2025 | News
The National Digital Exchange (NDX) is a new digital hub being built to help improve the UK public sector’s procurement of technology. Currently in early development, the hub is set to modernise how the public sector invests £26 billion a year on...
by ATHENA | Jun 11, 2025 | News
The European Commission’s public consultations on the future European Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Science received strong interestest from the public and the scientific community. In total, 734 responses from 43 countries were received. The Call...
by ATHENA | Jun 10, 2025 | News
One of the UK’s leading quantum computing startups is to be acquired by a US peer in a $1.075bn deal. Quantum computing can solve problems too difficult for normal computers and makes it possible to carry out complex calculations very quickly. Oxford Ionics,...