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	12 April 2021 	


  Research and Innovation


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News Alerts
Coronavirus: Commission mobilises €123 million for research and 
innovation to combat the threat of variants
The Commission is mobilising €123 million from Horizon Europe, the new 
EU research and innovation programme, for urgent research into 
coronavirus variants. This first emergency funding under Horizon Europe 
adds to a range of EU-funded research and innovation actions to fight 
the coronavirus and contributes to the Commission's overall action to 
prevent, mitigate and respond to the impact of coronavirus variants, in 
line with the new European bio-defence preparedness plan HERA Incubator.

Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, 
Education and Youth said:
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/We continue to mobilise all means at our disposal to fight this 
pandemic and the challenges presented by coronavirus variants. We must 
use our combined strength to be prepared for the future, starting from 
the early detection of the variants to the organisation and coordination 
of clinical trials for new vaccines and treatments, while ensuring 
correct data collection and sharing at all stages//./

	
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Success stories
A new approach to studying ocean ecology

Science has long held that in the food chain, plants support animals. 
While this may be true on land, the EU-funded MixITiN project has shown 
that such a system isn’t applicable to our oceans. The project hopes 
that its findings will help to improve knowledge and thus broader 
education efforts on marine ecology, allowing citizens to gain a better 
understanding of the ocean’s great wonders.

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Events
Protect our oceans: the challenge of Europe's global leadership
As one of the first contributions to the 2021-2030 United Nations Decade 
of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the European Conference 
will take place the week following the 2021 World Oceans Day, at a time 
when global ocean governance is at a critical juncture.
	
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Date

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	16/06/2021

	
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	Online

	
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Horizon magazine
Q&A: BioNTech vaccine is only ‘mRNA 1.0’. This is just the beginning, 
say co-founders

The successful development of mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 is 
‘transformational’ and opens the doors to new types of vaccines for 
other infectious diseases as well as cancer, according to Dr Özlem 
Türeci and Dr Uğur Şahin, the co-founders of Germany’s BioNTech.

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