Digital Economy

With its new Voyage Energy Planner, an EU-backed project helps inland waterway vessel owners plan zero-emission voyages using its innovative swappable battery containers.

Launching on 28 February 2022, the Switch2save Architectural Design Competition is giving students and young professionals a chance to showcase lightweight switchable smart glass solutions for energy-efficient glass buildings.

The EU-funded OPERANDUM project is demonstrating nature-based solutions (NBSs) for mitigating climate-related hazards and inspiring people to take action.

Armed with two innovative tools, an EU-funded project is using opera to define new forms of artistic creation that promote social integration and community development.

Two consortia will be delivering pilot long-term data preservation solutions to meet the growing needs of research communities in Europe and beyond.

EU-backed researchers studying the molecular structure of solid-liquid interfaces have discovered unexpectedly high energy storage capability where water meets metal surfaces.

How employable are doctorate holders? Do the skills they acquire match the skills needed for employment? How valuable is their degree? An EU-funded survey has the answers.

An EU-backed project is driving radical change in European industries through enabling technologies such as AI and digital twinning. Its solutions are being tested in pilot sites in Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom.

A set of EU-funded surveys has revealed a surprisingly high acceptance of water and nutrient reuse in three European countries.

An EU-backed company has used blockchain to reduce fraud and cyberattacks in toll transactions.

In our December 2020 special feature on cybersecurity, we discussed how a toolkit developed and built by the BPR4GDPR project could help European businesses navigate the complex requirements of new data privacy laws. One year on, the team tell us how the cookies crumble.

EU-backed scientists shed light on how people transmit and decode complex facial signals.

An EU-funded project has launched the first open-source smartphone app that helps scientists monitor drying events in Europe’s and South America’s rivers and streams.

EU-backed researchers are developing a trustworthy and secure platform where Europeans can safely share personal and industrial data.

An EU project is developing a novel emulator to support SMEs in their efforts to exploit 5G infrastructure capabilities.

EU-backed researchers build state-of-the-art software that harnesses AI to design nanomedicine that fights cancer cells.

Classical statistics or machine learning-based methods? EU-backed researchers perform the first objective comparison of conventional and new methods used to decode anomalous diffusion.

EU-backed scientists have successfully printed in 3D tiny gas sensors that mimic colour change mechanisms seen on peacocks. The sensors respond optically to traces of gas in homes, work settings and cars.

An EU-backed initiative designed software for underwater robotic equipment. Robots will be able to undertake dangerous missions deep below the water’s surface.

A new study has shown that applying algebraic topology to climate models could help us predict the next abrupt change in Earth’s climate.