Pillar Excellence

The Excellent Science pillar has four specific objectives:

  • The European Research Council (ERC) provides attractive and flexible funding to enable talented and creative individual researchers and their teams to pursue the most promising avenues at the frontier of science.
  • Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) supports collaborative research in order to extend Europe's capacity for advanced and paradigm-changing innovation. They foster scientific collaboration across disciplines on radically new, high-risk ideas and accelerate development of the most promising emerging areas of science and technology.
  • Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) provide excellent and innovative research training as well as attractive career and knowledge-exchange opportunities through cross-border and cross-sector mobility of researchers to best prepare them to face current and future societal challenges.
  • Research Infrastructures (including e-infrastructures) (RI) develops European research infrastructure for 2020 and beyond, foster their innovation potential and human capital, and complement this with the related Union policy and international cooperation.

Testimonial

image of BENEDMO - Flemish-Dutch collaboration against disinformation

BENEDMO - Flemish-Dutch collaboration against disinformation

Textgain is a Flemish SME and a partner in Digital Europe project BENEDMO, which answered to call ‘European Digital Media observatory (EDMO) - National and multinational hubs’.

Its task within the project is to further develop technologies to effectively detect sources of polarisation and disinformation, allowing journalists and moderators to quickly mitigate the harmful effects of such messages.