State aid: Commission approves €3.2 billion public support by seven Member States for a pan-European research and innovation project in all segments of the battery value chain.

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Louvain-La-Neuve. From 9 - 10 December 2019 the Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR) will participate in a workshop in Brussels with Bavarian actors from Nuremberg and Belgian stakeholders from the region of Wallonia. The aim of the event is to find joint research topics and cooperations in the fields of environmental and energy research that fit in future calls within the Horizon 2020 priorities "Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy" (SC3) and "Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials" (SC5).

Denmark and the Netherlands are new members.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) 2020 call for Innovative Training Networks (ITN) under Horizon 2020 has just opened!

Further information can be found here.

The European Commission has launched its call to develop a vibrant European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres. Proposals can be submitted until 13 November 2019 to finance projects under the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020.

Today the European Commission announced how it will spend the last and biggest annual share of €11 billion of the EU research and innovation funding programme Horizon 2020. In this final year the Commission will focus on fewer and crucial topics such as climate change, clean energy, plastics, cybersecurity and the digital economy, supporting further the Commission's political priorities.

What do you think are the most pressing challenges that EU-funded research and innovation should tackle? What are the most important impacts – scientific, technological, economic, societal – that EU-funded research and innovation should target? Now you can share your views with the European Commission.

Freising, Germany – End-of-life flexible PVC floor coverings potentially contain ‘legacy plasticizers’ which may no longer be used today for reasons of consumer protection and which in the meantime have been replaced in the EU by safer alternatives. State-of-the-art recycling of such flooring with recovery of PVC in virgin-like quality therefore requires a technically sophisticated separation of these ‘legacy plasticizers’. The new EU project CIRCULAR FLOORING will meet this challenge with the innovative plastics recycling process CreaSolv^®1, which is patented by the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV.

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Munich – On 14 May, 2019, the EU-funded project MOVECO held its closing conference at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz under the motto “The Danube goes circular”. About 70 participants from ten countries in the Danube region took the opportunity to exchange views on the circular economy. Project results from MOVECO were presented, including a transnational strategy for the circular economy in the Danube region as well as a travelling, mobile exhibition on this topic. The conference culminated in an awards ceremony in which the project partners announced the winners of MOVECO’s Innovation Award.

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