Horizon 2020 runs from 2014 to 2020 and has a budget of around €80 billion of funding available over the seven years it will run. It’s about bringing more ideas to market. It has three key pillars: Excellent Science Industrial leadership Societal Challenges   Here is just a small flavour of UK companies and projects that have been successful in securing Horizon 2020 funding: The London branch of Canadian company Tellspec will receive EU funding for developing a food scanner: an affordable and non-invasive mobile food sensor that enables users to measure and analyse their food intake in real-time. The European Commission awarded a total of €1,000,000 (£852.800) to three innovative companies at the CeBIT 2017 tech conference. UK-based researchers are top of the league in the European Research Council's (ERC) latest round of mid-career consolidator grants. Fifty-eight researchers working in UK institutions will each receive up to €2 million (£1.7m) of … [Read more...]