Funding opportunities,fight against coronavirus, EuroHPC, Quantum technologies, Graphene Flagship and more

[Susanne Henningsen]

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	04 May 2020 	


  Digital Excellence & Science Infrastructure


	
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Funding opportunities
The deadline of the neuromorphic computing technologies call is extended

In view of the pandemic, the deadline for the call on neuromorphic 
computing technologies is extended to give more time for applicants to 
write their proposals.

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Commercial cloud services to boost research capabilities in Europe

The EU-funded project OCRE (Open Clouds for Research Environments) has 
published a new tender. The tender aims at better interconnecting 
commercial cloud services with the research community to empower the 
European research capabilities.

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Poster announcing the call with the deadline and a digital cloud 
connecting several remote entities

EU projects in the fight against coronavirus
Coronavirus: Commission launches data sharing platform for researchers

The European Commission together with several partners launched a 
European COVID-19 Data Platform to enable the rapid collection and 
sharing of available research data. The platform, part of the 
ERAvsCorona Action Plan, marks another milestone in the EU's efforts to 
support researchers in Europe and around the world in the fight against 
the coronavirus outbreak.

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Visual with a researcher studying with a microscope and a computer 
delivering research data and in between of the two elements, molecules 
of viruses

Fighting coronavirus: European supercomputers join pharmaceutical 
companies in hunt for new drugs

Behind the Exscalate4CoV project stands an unprecedented consortium of 
the best scientific minds in the technological and bio-medical fields. 
Supported by €3 million of emergency EU funding, an increasing number of 
pharmaceutical companies and research institutes have recently joined 
the quest to find a drug to treat the coronavirus.

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Using European supercomputing to treat the coronavirus

The European Commission has offered its support in the field of 
high-performance computing (HPC) in order to help find a treatment for 
the novel coronavirus.

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European digital infrastructures in support of coronavirus research

Several European research communities and infrastructures are currently 
joining forces through highly complementary activities to help 
researchers in addressing the current outbreak and finding a treatment 
for the novel coronavirus. This is done by boosting the availability, 
discoverability and management of the research data and outputs in line 
with the Open Science principles and providing supplementary cloud services.

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Structure of a DNA molecule

Forecasting the coronavirus pandemic with help from EU projects

The whole world is currently dealing with a novel coronavirus pandemic 
and we all want to try to understand what the future may hold. Using 
computer-based models would allow us to keep up with the spread and 
evolution of the pandemic.

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Novel Coronavirus Pandemic

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
New EuroHPC research and innovation call

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) 
is continuing its efforts to complete the European supply value chain 
and develop a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe.

Logo of the EuroHPC JU: on a blue background, a supercomputer and a 
virtual hand trying to reach the 12 yellow stars of the EU Flag

	
Funding

	Deadline 	
	To be defined.

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Call to acquire a new world-class supercomputer in the Czech Republic

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) 
and the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center have launched a 
call for tender for the procurement of a petascale supercomputer, 
capable of executing more than 8 Petaflops (8 million billion 
calculations per second).

Logo of the EuroHPC JU: on a blue background, a supercomputer and a 
virtual hand trying to reach the 12 yellow stars of the EU Flag

	
Funding

	Deadline 	
	12/06/2020

	
TED

	TED Link 	
	ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:174131-... 
<https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:174131-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0>

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Call to acquire a new world-class supercomputer in Portugal

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) 
and the Minho Advanced Computing Centre (MACC) have launched a call for 
tender for the procurement of a petascale supercomputer, capable of 
executing more than one Petaflop, or 1 million billion calculations per 
second.

Logo of the EuroHPC JU: on a blue background, a supercomputer and a 
virtual hand trying to reach the 12 yellow stars of the EU Flag

	
Funding

	Deadline 	
	04/06/2020

	
TED

	TED Link 	
	etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display... 
<https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=6035>

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Call to acquire a new world-class supercomputer in Slovenia

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) 
and the supercomputing center IZUM (Institute of Information Science) 
are launching a call for tender for the procurement of a petascale 
supercomputer, capable of executing more than 5 Petaflops (5 million 
billion calculations per second).

Logo of the EuroHPC JU: on a blue background, a supercomputer and a 
virtual hand trying to reach the 12 yellow stars of the EU Flag

	
Funding

	Deadline 	
	01/06/2020

	
TED

	TED Link 	
	ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:195530-... 
<https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:195530-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0>

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Interviews
A data infrastructure at the service of the food and agriculture of the 
future

The AGINFRA data infrastructure supports the food and agricultural 
scientific communities by offering them better data analysis workflows 
and exploitation tools. This improved access to scientific knowledge 
helps accelerating innovation from farm to fork.

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<https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection.cfm?item_id=673200&newsletter=129&lang=default> 


Picture of Dr. Nikos Manouselis, project coordinator of AG INFRA PLUS, 
speaking at a conference

Interview with Marta Fajardo presenting a new 3D X-ray camera

We interviewed Marta Fajardo, professor at the Department of Physics of 
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), in Lisbon. Marta, from 2015 to 2019 
coordinated the FET (Future and Emerging Technology) OPEN project VOXEL 
(volumetric medical x-ray imaging at extremely low dose).

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Imaging from VOXEL's 3D X-ray camera

Flagships and large research initiatives
Graphene Flagship 2019 Annual Report on achievements and new directions

The 2019 annual report provides insight into the main achievements and 
success stories, covering topics from basic research and electronics to 
energy and healthcare applications.

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Projects' news & stories
EU research on Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies

Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies (HOT) refer to devices which exploit 
nano- or micro-mechanical oscillators to couple and control the 
electrical, optical and microwave domains. These technologies are on 
high demand, as they are used in communication devices, medical imaging, 
security (radar and THz imaging), timing and navigation, and future 
quantum technology.

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Project

	Project 	
	The Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies <http://hot-fetpro.eu/>

	
Acronym

	Acronym 	
	HOT <http://hot-fetpro.eu/>

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A spray to induce happiness and fight depression

The EU project POTION aims to find a new therapeutic treatment to fight 
depression and other mental disorders, by focusing its research on 
scents of two strong, yet opposing emotions – happiness and fear. The 
objective is to detect the particular molecules and synthesize those to 
create a spray that e.g. can induce happiness in people fighting with 
depression.

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Project

	Project 	
	potionh2020.com/ <https://potionh2020.com/>

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Social-economic sciences and humanities hand in hand with future and 
emerging technologies

The competition between so-called soft and hard sciences sometimes 
changes into a cooperation, especially when these two branches get 
inspiration from one another. A number of projects supported by the 
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme perfectly prove this 
synergy.

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Society through magnifying glass

Videos
The news of the graphene manufacturing handbook reached the Euronews’ 
audience in ten languages
The article and the video provide easy-to-understand information to the 
general public on this lightweight, superstrong and potentially industry 
revolutionising material.

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Forthcoming Events
EOSC-hub Week 2020 goes digital

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU-funded project EOSC-hub has decided 
to change the format of the EOSC-hub Week 2020 from a physical 
conference to an online event. Taking place from 18-20 May 2020, the 
event will be an important and timely platform to align efforts towards 
a functional federated science cloud.

slide with map of Europe and text EOSC hub week 2020

	
Date

	Date 	
	18/05/2020 - 20/05/2020

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Consultations
Recommendations on priorities and R&D activities for the Quantum 
Commmunication Infrastructure

The European Commission is launching a call for ideas to gather 
recommendations and suggestions for priorities and research and 
innovation (R&I) activities for the quantum communication infrastructure 
(QCI) initiative. The objective of this call is to identify critical 
areas for which an EU Investment is needed to allow the European Union 
to ensure a robust, non-dependent and sustainable supply chain of 
quantum communication technologies to build the EuroQCI.

map of Europe showing countries that have signed the declaration on a 
Quantum communication infrastructure for the EU

	
Documents

	Document 	
	Questionnaire Call for ideas (Word document) 
<https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=65866> 
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