AI Power to Combat COVID-19
The fight against COVID-19 has pushed AI instruments centre stage in the search for innovative ways to limit the spread and develop treatments and a vaccine.
Surge for Digital Skills
Various actors are working together to set up EU level action in support of improving citizens’ and organisations’ digital skills.
Physical mobility yes, but greener please!
Movetia, the Erasmus Student Network and SwissCore presented good practices of how to ‘green’ educational mobility and discussed European level action.
A bold new vision for the EIC
Commission expert group have set out their ambitious vision for the EIC: solving global challenges by supporting deep-tech research and entrepreneurship.
Quo vadis European Universities Initiative?
Higher education associations take position on the future of the European Universities Initiative.
European Mutual Learning and Exchange
Education ministers discussed the implications of COVID-19 on the educational systems and particularly the challenges of the distance learning.
Boosting access to finance for education
The European Commission and the European Investment Fund launch a Skills & Education Guarantee Pilot in view of overcoming the difficult economic situation.
Sharing data to accelerate coronavirus research
The EC launched a COVID-19 data platform, which will allow sharing and analysing coronavirus data at unprecedented speed and can boost Open Science and EOSC.
EIT: Combating Covid-19 with innovation
The EIT has repurposed activities to contribute to the fight against Covid-19 with connections, hackathons and innovative solutions from its vast community.
Increased EU-Africa R&I effort against COVID-19
Two new calls under Horizon 2020 help tackling the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The EU and the African Union work also on a closer partnership in general.