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European Innovation Council - Commission awards more than €278 million to 75 start-ups and SMEs set to shape the future

05.12.2019

[Source: Research & Innovation] Seventy-five promising start-ups and SMEs have been selected in the largest funding round so far under the pilot phase of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. As a major novelty, 39 of these companies are set to receive both a grant and a direct equity investment.
Research Headlines - Redesigning the internet to protect user privacy

05.12.2019

[Source: Research & Innovation] When an American researcher imagined a new way to bolster internet privacy (an online system built on 'mix-nets' that would block eavesdroppers from accessing information about who was communicating with whom, and what they were saying), his vision remained on the fringe for decades. But now, an EU-funded project has invented a way to use his idea to protect Europeans' data online.
KaRMA2020 project presentation at the 2019 Kaohsiung International Invention and Design Expo (KIDE), 6-8 December 2019, Taiwan - 6-8 December 2019, International Convention Center Kaohsiung (ICCK), Kaohsiung, Taiwan

04.12.2019

[Source: Research & Innovation] KaRMA2020 project: ‘Industrial Feather Waste Valorisation for Sustainable KeRatin based Materials’. KIDE is the first exhibition which combines "Invention", "Design" and "International Conference". The participants from more than 20 countries with more than 500 entries are expected. According to European Commission, 13.1 million tons of poultry meat was produced only in the European Union (EU-28) in 2014 with an estimated generation of 3.1 million tons feather waste. At present the majority of poultry feathers are converted into low nutritional value animal food or disposed in landfills, causing environmental and health hazards. In this context, the overall objective of KaRMA2020 is the industrial exploitation of such underutilized waste to obtain added value raw materials for the chemical sector: keratin, bioplastics, flame retardant coatings, non-woven and thermoset biobased resins. KaRMA2020 products will be showcased on the fair and the invention (Patent PL 230434, 2018: Innovative nonwovens with the addition of keratin fibres from feathers produced by the spun-bonded method) will run for an award.