Parliament to demand bigger budget for Horizon Europe in 2024. MEPs’ ambition is to up funding for the European Innovation Council, and for health and climate research. But this is once again at odds with budget cuts proposed by EU governments tinyurl.com/y3n6sd64

Great session for VITAL-5G Project FOR-FREIGHT #SOLID-#B5G FLEXI-cross Beia Consult Int & inspiration for PlugFest HANDS-ON Workshop on Network Applications 5GASP, 5G-EPICENTRE, 5G-IANA, 5GMETA

Great session Beia Consult Int PLENTY-Life BLOW Project FOR-FREIGHT VITAL-5G Project #SOLID-#B5G NetZeroCities LIFE Programme CINEA 🇪🇺 Clean Energy 🇪🇺 CINEA

US draws up plans for new national body to monitor R&D strengths and weaknesses. Policymakers are partly flying blind, with existing analysis fractured across an alphabet soup of different agencies tinyurl.com/9s4zwtmm

Great opportunity for networking #cyber #security #iot Beia Consult Int FLEXI-cross RITHMS_EU STACK Project DOME - Distributed Open Marketplace for Europe CHRISS project MOBILISE Project AICom4Health Project Arrowhead #ISOLDE #SOLID-B5G VITAL-5G Project project-enta.com imminence.eu celtic-next-uswa.org

The Art of Early-Stage Investing, by Rex Woodbury digitalnative.tech/p/the-art-of-e…

European tech start-up funding is down from $82B in 2022, to $45B in 2023. France Digitale has some suggestions to stop the slide in its manifesto for the 2024 European elections sciencebusiness.net/news/start-ups…

The Ecosystem: UK universities to take lower stakes in spin-outs following independent review. Review of technology transfer calls for greater clarity on spin-out terms, but clears universities of cashing-in tinyurl.com/2ysr7jcj

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VCs say 2024 tech trends to watch include more startup shutdowns, a defense-tech renaissance, and the rise of AI winners businessinsider.com/2024-tech-tren… via Business Insider

Save the Date for our ECCC Info Day! 📅 22February, 2024 📍 Bucharest, Romania Expect to gain insights into new funding opportunities under the digital Europe Programme and to network with the community. 🔗 Stay tuned for more information to come: bit.ly/41vPPaX

The Widening: Concerted efforts in Romania and Bulgaria to increase success in winning grants from the research programme are bearing fruit. While still low in EU league table, now have the networks and support systems are in place to make further headway tinyurl.com/pc6m4xek

Replay 2023: As early as February, the research and innovation community set out demands for FP10. But as things stand, member states aren’t feeling generous and EU budget negotiations could spell cuts for Horizon Europe tinyurl.com/4kvvfs8r

Grant funding offers an opportunity to forge ahead with innovations without sacrificing an unsustainable portion of a company’s equity. sifted.eu/articles/grant…

Replay 2023: Commission is preparing the ground for a proposal for Council recommendations on enhancing research security in the face of growing threats from foreign actors. This is another sign the EU is reeling back from the mantra of openness tinyurl.com/5ek8rtv4

Replay 2023: As part of a broader push to tighten security, science funding agencies in the US, UK and Canada are considering setting up a network to share information about security risks affecting international research projects tinyurl.com/yykxkaje

piratewires.com/p/techno-indus… Leave your SaaS job ... Join a manufacturing startup, or start one. Some people in tech think there’s more glory to building AGI, but in reality it will be heavy industry that becomes indistinguishable from magic.

The European Commission wants to launch a €500 million public-private partnership on advanced materials, as part of plans to boost Europe’s standing in the sector tinyurl.com/ybj5t67t

One year since the launch of a pilot project , the Commission has officially announced the Higher Education Package, under which voluntary partner universities can set up competitive joint degree programmes at Bachelor, Master, or Doctoral levels rb.gy/3lfrnv

Germany's Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (Sprind) is reinventing funding by prioritising speed, flexibility and real-world impact over bureaucracy. Read more: ow.ly/IeO950SKJ0G