Author archives: Christina Tansek

Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area is a major concern of the EU. The ERA & Widening Info Day will take place on 9 July 2021 and will concentrate on the Horizon Europe part for Widening participation and strengthening the ERA. You can find more about the Info…

Read on how redox-flow batteries can become more environmentally friendly. By replacing the core element of redox-flow batteries, the liquid electrolyte, with vanillin Stefan Spirk and his team from TU Graz have made redox-flow batteries even more environmentally friendly. As liquid electrolyte are mostly made up of ecological harmful heavy…

After three years of intensive interactions with renowned contributors, Klaus Klaas Loenhart, TU Graz, has recently published his spectacular life-saving chef d’oevre. The book explores breathing and the atmosphere as leitmotifs for the design of an inclusive future in a new climate regime, uncovering intertwinements of societal activities with the…

eseia established a highly efficient working mechanism during the corona year. Digital interaction not only prevented the virus from spreading, it also reduced our carbon footprint. For this reason, eseia adopted a new digital work mode that put eseia at members’ fingertips. Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, eseia…

The first calls for proposals in the EU’s new key funding programme for research and Innovation, Horizon Europe, are now open. With a total budget of €95.5 billion, the programme includes several new elements such as the European Innovation Council, Missions an open science policy and a new approach to…

Europe is place to be for innovation. Europe has fantastic universities and it is home to a number of unicorn companies worth more than 1 billion € each. This was the uplifting analysis voiced in the opening p olicy session of the R&I Days to unbelievable 90,000 participants from all…