€15 Million Up for Grabs to Support ICT Entrepreneurship and Web Startups in First Round of Horizon 2020 Funding
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The EU has just launched the first round of applications for its new 7 year research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020. Over €15m is available to transform entrepreneurial culture, give students the confidence, knowhow and support to set up their own businesses and to help promising web startups launch in Europe and go global.
Siemens Enters into Master Agreement with Pfizer
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Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. has entered into a master collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. to design, develop and commercialize diagnostic tests for therapeutic products across Pfizer's pipeline. Under the agreement, Siemens will be one of Pfizer's collaboration partners to develop and provide in vitro diagnostic tests for use in clinical studies and, potentially, eventual global commercialization with Pfizer products.
Santa Embraces Video Technology to Spread Christmas Joy
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This year, instead of sending their Christmas lists to the North Pole in the post, children at hospitals across the UK have been getting the chance to share it with Santa Claus himself as he embraces the digital age. With the help of video communications technology from Cisco, Santa has been ‘dropping in’ to hospitals across the British Isles including Glasgow, Cardiff, Nottingham, Birmingham and London to find out what the children want for Christmas.
New Report Shows Europe Needs More Strategic High-Tech Investment
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Europe remains a main knowledge production centre of the world, but lags behind North America and Asia in fast-growing technologies of the future. This is a key conclusion of the latest Innovation Union Competitiveness Report. While Europe continues to lead science and technology for aeronautics, automobiles, clean transport, waste management and renewable energy, the report shows that it risks falling behind in other emerging global growth markets such as health and biotechnology.
Doctors 2.0 & You The Most Tweeted Two-Day Healthcare Conference in Europe
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5 - 6 June 2014, Paris, France.Doctors 2.0 & You, the digital healthcare conference in Europe, and Symplur, LLC, partners for the promotion of advanced Twitter analytics, announced new data regarding the #Doctors20 hashtag associated to the most recent edition of the conference. The data focused on Twitter conversations using the #Doctors20 hashtag during the "Doctors 2.0 & You" June 6-7, 2013 gathering in Paris.
Horizon 2020 - First Calls
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The Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014-15 sets out the funding opportunities under the different parts of the programme; all are being published today on the Participant Portal. Each part describes the overall objectives, the respective calls, and the topics within each call. Each topic describes the challenge to be addressed, the scope of the activities to be carried out, and the expected impacts to be achieved. Compared with the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), there are relatively fewer calls and topics.
HIMSS Turkey: Details Emerging about Landmark Istanbul Health IT Event
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4 - 5 June 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.Next June Istanbul will be the setting for a truly exciting conference and exhibition - the first time the Turkish Ministry of Health and HIMSS host a joint conference. HIMSS Turkey is already generating high levels of press interest and attention, as it promises to be a highly-informative gathering of both local as well as global IT decision makers. If you are interested in the future of health informatics in this emerging market, you should already have HIMSS Turkey in your plans for 2014.
Horizon 2020 Launched with €15 Billion over First Two Years
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The European Commission has for the first time presented calls for projects under Horizon 2020, the European Union's €80 billion research and innovation programme. Worth more than €15 billion over the first two years, the funding is intended to help boost Europe's knowledge-driven economy, and tackle issues that will make a difference in people's lives. This includes 12 areas that will be a focus for action in 2014/2015, including topics such as personalised healthcare, digital security and smart cities.
Antilope Project Gives Guidance to Further eHealth Interoperability in Europe
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Premier European mHealth Summit Confirmed
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6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.mHealth Summit Europe brings together global leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem. A distinguished faculty of international experts and opinion leaders will address and discuss the themes such as: mobility in chronic disease management, mobility in elderly care management and privacy and security of data.