by ATHENA | Sep 16, 2026 | News
ESFRI has published a new Position Paper on the Infrastructure Ecosystem, which presents its vision for a more integrated and strategically coordinated European ecosystem of Research Infrastructures (RIs) and Technology Infrastructures (TIs)....
by ATHENA | Sep 16, 2026 | News
EIB makes its first investment in small modular reactor (SMR) technology, providing up to €40 million to Finland-based startup Steady Energy. Reactor under development to supply safer, low carbon district heating as an alternative to fossil fuels and other combustion...
by ATHENA | Sep 16, 2026 | News
A new robotic platform automates electrochemical experiments and helps researchers gather information more efficiently about materials suitable for energy storage. “We have developed new robotic tools that are not particularly complicated, but which allow us to...
by ATHENA | Sep 15, 2026 | News
KEY TAKEAWAYS Advanced industries play an unusually large role in South Korea’s economy. Ten key sectors, including electronics, machinery, vehicles, and chemicals, accounted for 25.1 percent of its economy in 2022—more than twice their share of the global economy....
by ATHENA | Sep 15, 2026 | News
Every scientific breakthrough and every new technology starts with people. The research and innovation workforce underpins countries’ greatest ambitions in terms of economic prosperity and societal wellbeing. Yet the evidence on this workforce has long been...
by ATHENA | Sep 15, 2026 | News
Based on previous recommendations, the EIC Board broadly welcomes, albeit with some caution, an important milestone in the negotiations on the next programming period (2028-2034) – the adoption of the Council’s Partial General Approach (PGA) of the legislative...