Digital Economy

Meet two of this year’s best EU-funded innovators: Finnish company MetGen, the overall Grand Prix winner, and C2CA Technology, the Netherlands, winner of the Sustainability Tech category.

For the first time, scientists have produced a stable 2D silicon compound, paving the way for new uses of silicon in molecular chemistry.

Whether on a laptop or supercomputer, scientists investigating neural networks now have access to an enhanced brain simulator thanks to a digital pan-European research infrastructure.

A non-destructive way to manipulate donor impurities in a silicon lattice with atomic precision may pave the way for the fabrication of solid-state qubits.

A quantum tech start-up is building the world’s first scalable quantum computer in a race against key industry players.

Yearning for a book that looks, feels and smells like an ordinary book, but that you can also connect wirelessly to digital devices? Well, your wish may soon come true thanks to a Greek start-up backed by an EU-funded project.

A novel approach combining conventional white light with advanced photonics and optical imaging could help save up to 80 000 lives by helping doctors detect bowel cancer in the early stages.

We featured the BILLON project in the October 2020 issue of Research*eu and learnt about their innovative blockchain technology that allows all Europeans, regardless of age, wealth or nationality to participate in the ever-growing digital economy. Robert Kaluza, e-money CEO of the Billon Group based in the United Kingdom and Poland, fills us in on how far their technology has advanced and their most exciting recent developments.

A hybrid concrete-plastic floating platform and its components have been validated for offshore wind energy use.

How do Europeans expect connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to affect driving efficiency, road safety, data protection and sustainability? A recent survey has the answers.

How can we make Europe’s SMEs more competitive? An EU-funded project’s second call for proposals is giving innovative SMEs the opportunity to access technologies related to high-performance computing (HPC).

Current forecasting methods underestimate technological progress in energy technologies, predicting higher costs than actually observed, a new study reports.

Scientists have found evidence of clay minerals in the red planet’s Gale crater that indicate the presence of water under conditions that can support life.

This month, we highlight the LINKS project which has just reached its 1-year milestone. Amongst its top achievements have been three comprehensive studies across three core knowledge domains focusing on the social, institutional and technical dimensions of the role of social media and crowdsourcing during disasters. The findings from these studies, freely available, will be applied in the project’s upcoming fieldwork, due to begin in November 2021.

An innovative mobile power flow control system installed in the Bulgarian transmission grid is increasing renewable energy penetration and improving cross-border flows between Bulgaria and Romania.

Concerned by heavy traffic conditions on their residential street, Cardiff citizens have used sensors supplied by an EU-funded project to draw local government attention.

Researchers develop an automated path planning and collision avoidance strategy for drone swarms in Europe’s skies.

An EU-funded project makes it plain: batteries need to live longer than the Internet of things (IoT) devices they power. A position paper published by the project outlines the key actions to power IoT devices reliably and sustainably.

The discovery of a new semimetal’s uncommonly pristine nature lays the groundwork for a new class of quantum materials that could open the way to powerful new quantum technologies.

A bulk cargo carrier was recently the test site for a variety of remote inspection techniques (RITs) that demonstrated how robotics solutions can make for quicker, safer and more efficient ship inspections.