There's still 1 month left to submit proposals for the call  INNOVFUND-2020   The call targets projects on low-carbon technologies and processes in all sectors covered by Directive 2003/87/EC (the EU ETS Directive) Only projects above EUR 7.500.000 of capital expenditure (large-scale projects) are eligible for this round of the Innovation Fund, and the application procedure is two-stage: comprising the expression of interest  phase and the full application phase.  The topics amenable to funding are those listed in the annex one to the above mentioned directive: We trust it's not needed for us to remind you why emission curbing is a urgent challenge , nor that waiting for "unicorn" technologies to solve all problems in the future is going to be incredibly dangerous, and expensive (should it even be possible)  so, please, give your best shot to bring forward your real world ideas on the table of this and each EU funding call amenable to topic... don't take...

  Follow our President, Dr Marco Manca , who will join a terrific panel of experts at Welfair Roma 2020 to reflect on the challenges that likely lay ahead, and to present our activities for preparedness (e.g. ROBIT, livinglab ): " Robotics and care: an ecological revolution in a practice/ward next door " To join us, register to attend Welfair Roma 2020

 by Tsilla Boisselet . Licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 ( note to the prospective reader : this is a transparent sharing of some of my reflections. I by no means believe I am providing any definitive answer hereby. I would instead invite an open conversation with you, so that together we could grow ever closer to a shared, affordable and sustainable, path forward) A mapping exercise on why growth remains a core slogan …and…. Is it possible to map strategic ways out? How to lay down the underlying logics and dependencies and discuss about strategy in a visual way? Defenders of the Nature, or alarmed researchers on the impact of biodiversity loss make their voices loud to preserve resources that are essential to many human activities – or hold an intrinsic value that needs to be preserved as such. But investments are still low and actions reflect the place environment holds in priority ranking – certainly not the top ranks, for citizens and governments alike, despite some changing...

by Tsilla Boisselet . DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.3924048   licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 An exercise on the why such suggestions, as sustained by AMAP, Confédération paysanne, Ingénieurs sans frontière Agrista , Réseau Salariat, makes sense for sustainability . Our starting point, an article from the online magazine novethic , published the 21th of may 2020 in the category “environment”.   «Créer une sécurité sociale de l'alimentation alors qu'un Français sur cinq souffre d'insécurité alimentaire» “Create a food social security while one out of five Frenchmen suffers food insecurity” Following the model of universal health care, where taxes pay the essential health care for all, these organizations ask to create a system to, in an analog way, provides essential food supply for all. Emmanuel Marie, membre of the french national comity of the farmers’ organisation (Confédération paysanne) hopes to give farmers the social status of doctors; "Comme les médecins qui sont ...

We are excited to share with you the publication of the Trieste Charter  on accessibility to services for all persons, which has been announced during our participation to the EuroScience Open Forum 2020 meeting in Trieste (Italy). The original press release from our partners (in Italian) is here  and a rough automatic translation is available here . In the next 2 years we will join forces with our partners to manage a call for contributions and amendments by stakeholders and communities, to ready the final text for the 2022 ESOF meeting in Leiden (The Netherlands) Together we will reflect on the right approaches to implement the principles and commitments of the charter into our partners and our strategies... so expect a lot of mapping in the next few months to be shared with you ;) In the meanwhile, if you want to read the current draft, please find it here . Thank you in advance for your feedbacks. We would like to specially thank Tiziana Del Fabbro, of FederSanità , for t...