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Evaluation results - ERC Synergy Grant 2024 call

The results of the 2024 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant call (call deadline 15 November 2023) were published. Synergy grant projects consist of minimum two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams that jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. In total 548 proposals were submitted for this call of which 57 projects with 201 PIs received a Synergy grant including one researcher based at a Flemish host institution: Sara Bals (Universiteit Antwerpen) is involved in the project ‘CHIRAL-PRO - Handshake Complexes of Chiral Nanoparticles and Proteins’. In the ERCEA news article the list of selected projects and several other examples of projects are highlighted.

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Independent expert report on R&I Challenges for System Transition in Energy & Mobility

The event will see the launch of the independent expert report ‘Addressing European Research and Innovation Challenges for System Transitions in Energy and Mobility’. This reflection paper provides a vision, recommendations and actions for how EU R&I policy in the areas of clean energy and mobility should go about adapting to the challenges the EU now faces. The event will explore the paper’s suggestions and consider how to best to translate them from lofty ambitions to real actions. DG Research and Innovation (DG R&I) Deputy Director-General Joanna Drake will open the event. The report will then be presented by one of the co-authors of the report, Pierpaolo Cazzola (Co-Director, ITS-Davis European Transport and Energy Research Centre, University of California, Davis). This will be followed by a panel discussion, moderated by DG R&I ‘Clean Planet’ Director Rosalinde van der Vlies. Four high-level speakers will provide their views and thoughts on the paper, and present their thoughts on the challenges and possible future priorities for R&I in clean energy and mobility. The panellists are: Floor Alkemade (Full Professor and Chair of Economics and Governance of Technological Innovation at Eindhoven University of Technology; member of the Commission expert group on the Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation [ESIR]) Frank W. Geels (Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transitions, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester) (co-author of the reflection paper) Marc Lemaître (Director-General, DG R&I) Henriette Spyra (Director General Innovation & Technology, Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Mobility, Innovation & Technology) Please click on the event page for more information: Online event: Clean energy and mobility R&I: Shaping the future In order to attend the event, you will need to register for the research and innovation community platform. On the day of the event, you will be able to access a livestream on the event. The report will also be made available there once published.  

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Micado - Migrant Integration Cockpits and Dashboards

Atlas Integratie & Inburgering Antwerpen is an autonomous agency and a non-profit organisation responsible for implementing the Flemish integration policy on behalf of and for the City of Antwerp. Atlas offers several types of services for newcomers and Antwerp’s public and non-profit organisations.

In 2018, under the leadership of HafenCity University Hamburg, Atlas participated in the H2020 call 'Addressing the challenge of migrant integration through ICT-enabled solutions'. The proposal 'MICADO - Migrant Integration Cockpits and Dashboards' was approved by the European Commission and the project started in January 2019 and runs until June 2022.