On the 15th and the 16th of November 2018, the Netherlands and France organised a conference on Artificial Intelligence. This conference, called Erasmus-Descartes, gathered over 50 experts and 250 attendees in Paris. The Erasmus-Descartes conference is an annual bilateral event aimed at strengthening existing partnerships and identifying new opportunities for joint action. As the 2017 […]
Health~Holland just published the special edition of the Health~Holland Update, devoted to the LifeSciences@Work (LS@W) accelerator programme. Want to be inspired? Read the real stories of researchers on how to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations in the life sciences business. For example, Eline Vrijland-van Beest, CEO of Nightbalance shares ‘Five lessons learned by experience as a […]
Tuesday the 18th of December 2018, the sixth edition of the Friends of the Industry (FoI) conference was held in Paris, at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, commonly known as Bercy. The FoI represents a group of EU member states, gathering on a yearly basis, to exchange views on European industrial policy. Generally, […]
1,75 miljard euro voor Europees ground breaking onderzoek in micro-electronics Het Europese project Nano 2022 gaat officieel van start, zo kondigde de Europese Commissie dinsdag 18 december jl aan. Aan dit programma dragen vier Europese landen gezamenlijk bij, -Duitsland, Frankrijk, VK en Italië-, voor onderzoek en innovatie op het gebied van micro-electronica. Het gaat om het […]
In March 2018, during the G7 Ministerial meeting on Preparing Jobs of the Future, Canadian minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Navdeep Bains, said AI to have a key part in the country’s economic growth strategy and thus wanted to put together a group that would do research on the societal and economic impacts […]
On any given day, the halls of the world’s biggest start-up campus, Station F, are filled with enthusiastic entrepreneurs and tech-prodigies. This time was no different and yet it was: on the 4th of December, MIT Technology Review, in partnership with BNP Paribas, organised their annual “Innovators under 35” Europe summit. Each year 35 carefully […]
Op 21 novembre jl maakte de Franse staatssecretaris voor digitale zaken, Mounir Mahjoubi, de winnaars bekend van een call door en voor de Franse overheid die als doel heeft om publieke diensten dankzij AI te verbeteren. “Van de 52 ingediende dossiers zijn er zes geselecteerd voor 2019”. Mounir Mahjoubi was bijzonder ingenomen met dit succes. Deelname aan […]
