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 Spanning seven years (2014 - 2020) and with a budget of €77 billion, Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU research and innovation funding programme ever. The 2018-2020 Work Programme builds on the success of Horizon 2020 and takes account of the extensive interim evaluation of the programme. The Work Programme also responds to the European Commission's …

In her keynote speech to the Nigerian Capital Markets and Banking Forum, Ms. Patel highlighted achievements made since the launch of DFID’s Economic Development Strategy in January, which set out the Government’s priorities for establishing new trade, investment and economic relationships, with a focus on ending poverty and supporting job creation …

The proposals will protect elephants and help combat poaching by removing opportunities for criminals to trade illegally-poached ivory. October’s plans will be subject to a 12-week consultation and cover items of all ages, not only those created after a certain date.The number of elephants has declined by almost a third in the last decade and aroun…

Over the last 20 years, there have been many calls to overhaul the way health and social care are delivered and to optimise the links between all the constituent parts of the health and care community but there has been no clear definition of how this might work in practice.The framework proposed in this report, Engineering better care, outlines ho…

Philip Greenish CBE, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, says:“All sectors of the UK economy stand to benefit from artificial intelligence in the future, and the UK has the potential to become a world leader in the application of this technology. As well as its potential to support specific tasks such as providing trustworthy healt…

Dr Kate Robson Brown from the University of Bristol has been awarded funding to research how bones respond to stress during growth and development. Collaborating with the NASA Ames Research Centre, the findings will be used in a pilot study to design an engineering structure that could be manufactured and deployed in space.Other projects recognised…

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, through its easy to use, credit card-sized microcomputers, is redefining how people learn about and engage with computers. From initially setting out to help increase the number of computer science applicants to the University of Cambridge, the Raspberry Pi team has put the power of computing into the hands of people al…

TARDiS (Terahertz Atmospheric/Astrophysics Radiation Detection in Space) would measure the present state oxygen atoms of the uppermost atmosphere, and present new insights on how the composition of the atmosphere is affected by climate change. The project will also take images of deep space, tracing the birth and evolution of the stars and planets.…

The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is supporting eight new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) in data-intensive science to address this skills requirement.The centres include industrial partners – including household names like Aviva, EDF Energy and Hewlett Packard – and will offer comprehensive training in data-intensive sc…

The AHRC identified heritage as one of three priority areas because of the profound difference it makes to society. As part of the launch, the AHRC Heritage Priority Area team organised three days of events. They included a day-long conference on Thursday 5th October organised in partnership with the Association of Critical Heritage Studies and ent…

The symposium was organised by Dr Christian Nielsen (QMUL) and Dr Hugo Bronstein (UCL) as part of a series of networking events run by the Centre, led by Professor Clare Grey at the University of Cambridge.The Symposium provided a networking opportunity for students and postdoctoral staff from all over the UK to meet, disseminate data and discuss w…

Professor Rubin is currently Director of the Policy Institute at King's and Professor of Public Policy. Before joining King's Jennifer established and then led the justice and home affairs research programme at RAND Europe for ten years. She has served on RAND's executive team most recently as Executive Vice President, helping to lead its quadrupli…

The international team of researchers demonstrated in 2016 that defects in the crystalline structure of perovskites could be healed by exposing them to light, but the effects were temporary. Now, an expanded team, from Cambridge, MIT, Oxford, Bath and Delft, have shown that these defects can be permanently healed, which could further accelerate the…

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented the development of a vaccine against HIV: the ability to generate immune cells that stay in circulation long enough to respond to and stop virus infection.In a study published in 2009, results from a clinical trial carried …

This Lectureship represents the opening of a new phase of engagement between Cambridge's department of Land Economy and China. The Lecturer will provide teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and conduct world-leading research in sustainable development and urbanisation with a focus on China. The lecturer will also provide a focal point…