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FP7 Programme Boosts Life Science R&D

The European Commission‘s FP7 Programme to Boost the Life Science R&D Funding in Europe, Finds Frost & Sullivan   LONDON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ — Europe is moving towards becoming a knowledge-based economy. Keeping in line with this objective, the European commission has instituted the Framework 7 (FP7) programme. Launched to support the re-launched Lisbon strategy, [...]

€9 billion Opportunity for ICT Companies

Did you get yours yet? The FP7 Programme offers all, and particularly small, businesses an opportunity to develop market changing innovations in co-operation with the best brains in the scientific community. See the details below. EU funding for the advancement of ICT The objective of ICT research under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) is [...]

SME Partner for FP7 Projects

The EUs Framework Programme 7 is the most ambitious yet, targeting investment at research commercial businesses won’t pursue.  Grants are provided to academic and science communities, helping cover the costs of discovering new ways to  address issues impacting the European Community and beyond. Consortia comprising institutions and SMEs across the European States are enabled in [...]

Healthcare Freakonomics

For some strange reason the healthcare sector manages to escape the sort of forensic analysis others are subjected to. There’s this strange coalition of patient confidentiality, ethics, professional integrity and public policy. These combine to create this “opaque soup” of information which nobody understands and even fewer believe. In the UK we get bombarded by [...]

The public sector starts at No 1 Easy Street

For years Karen Moffat toiled away in the canteen of her local supermarket, before realising she could earn more, work fewer hours and be less stressed by taking a job in the public sector. The mother of two is one of more than 900,000 workers to have signed up for a life working for the [...]

Make Research Work

The Avert-IT project has been featured in the guidance document produced by the Use and Diffuse project. “USEandDIFFUSE is co-financed by the European Commission DG Research under the 7-th Framework Programme.

Transforming Patient Data

At which point of transformation does data collected during care cease to belong to the patient? This is a major ethics question we need to get a clear ruling on, because it’s the data that makes everything work. We asked the question of the LinkedIn Health Infomatics Technology Group. Mitchell Portnoy was kind enough to [...]

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