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Landshut, Germany – Over three years of research, the consortium of the EU project HyFlow has successfully developed a highly efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective hybrid energy storage system (HESS) that can meet high energy and power demands. The researchers achieved this by combining a high-performance vanadium redox flow battery with a supercapacitor with water-based electrolytes. With one of the demonstrators developed in the HyFlow project, major energy consumers such as enterprises, municipal utility companies, medical facilities, and data centres can determine the optimal system dimensions for their individual requirements. Using their existing power usage data, the system computes the ideal storage solution in terms of capacity and output required. The HyFlow project has been realized by Landshut University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with nine further partners from six countries across Europe. The European Union has funded the project with around 4 million euros.

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A new set of calls has been launched worth over € 112 million from the 2023-2024 Horizon Europe Digital, Industry, and Space work programme. The European Commission has announced the launch of new Horizon Europe calls, with a substantial funding pool of over €112 million. These calls are aimed primarily at pioneering projects in the realms of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies.

The European Commission has used previously unallocated funds for the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe. This means that almost 1.4 billion euros can increase the budget for the 2024 research programme to a total of 7.3 billion euros. This was made possible by an amendment to the 2023-2024 work programme, which will benefit the missions in Horizon Europe, the New European Bauhaus and young researchers.

The European Commission has published a survey to gather feedback on the design of Horizon Europe's main work programme for 2025. The feedback is being collected at the level of the ‘Destinations’ or Missions, corresponding to the six Horizon Europe clusters, research infrastructures, European innovation ecosystems, the five EU Missions and cross-cutting activities and the New European Bauhaus facility.  Respondents will be able to provide feedback for one or multiple Destinations and/or Missions, according to what is most relevant to them.

From 1 May 2024, the European Commission will offer a new option for determining the eiligible personnel costs in Horizon Europe projects. Previously, an individual daily rate had to be determined for each employee when calculating personnel costs. From May, beneficiaries can now alternatively have a single daily rate certified for all their employees. This is a voluntary option, but if chosen by the organisation, it must be applied when calculating personnel costs of all new projects under the framework programme.

Horizon Europe has reached its fourth year and is now undergoing its regular interim evaluation. The first positive conclusion: Bavaria has recorded an increase in its success rate in acquiring EU funding compared to Horizon 2020 and continues to lead the field among the federal states and European competitors. We have taken a look at the latest figures and provide an insight into how the EU's multi-billion euro budget for research and innovation projects has been utilised to date.

South Korea will join the growing group of countries associated to Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme.Today, Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, and Lee Jong Ho, South Korean Minister for Science and Information and Communication Technology concluded negotiations on South Korea's association, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to foster mutual collaboration in research and innovation.

The EU Commission, together with the European Research Area countries and stakeholders, has put forward a set of guidelines to support the European research community in their responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (AI).

The European Commission's second strategic plan sets out the main guidelines for a green, digital and resilient future for the next and final three years of the Horizon Europe programme (2025-2027).

Europe is striving to become a world leader in battery innovation. To this end, the public-private partnership BATT4EU has published a new strategy for research and innovation, recommending the priorities for battery research and innovation that should receive public funding.