The supply of medical isotopes is becoming increasingly more problematic. There are only six reactors in the world that are responsible for producing them. At the moment, the power plant in the Dutch town of Petten is shut down on…
Founder and Technical Director, Greg Roy, swapped his job as creative art director at Ubisoft to start the Swiss company Megaverse. A start-up that tries to keep viruses and hackers out of the virtual door in a playful way. CEO…
In Austria, almost 70,000 tons of plastic films currently end up in the trash. Of this, only 12,000 tons can be recycled. The rest has to be sent for thermal recycling – and that causes greenhouse gases. “Currently, the film…
Electric car owners are used to using a cable with a plug instead of a gasoline hose. That’s easy if you have your own charging station or a quick charger that has the cable attached. But if you have to…
Earlier this year, the Suiso Frontier tanker ship set off on its maiden voyage. Its trade route will be the first of its kind: bringing liquid hydrogen from Australia to Japan via boat. The irony, of course, is that a…
Just imagine: you are on a city trip in an unknown city and want to go to that one good seafood restaurant. You type the address of your destination into your phone and slip it into your pocket. You do…
Medical technology in Twente is doing very well, in part thanks to financial support from Europe. Last summer, the region’s medtech cluster received over 11 million euros worth of REACT-EU funding, and four projects are now underway to develop groundbreaking…
For a professional gamer, just one percent of an improvement in their performance can worth millions of dollars. However, there is still no widespread tool for eSports players to measure and help them improve their performance. NeuroLeet‘s developers want to…
In 2019, according to Eurostat, the EU countries emitted over 3.7 billion tons of greenhouse gases – GHGs – which means that every citizen of the Union produced – on average – 8.4 tons of them. In the graph below,…
A crisis like the corona pandemic calls for decisive measures. The EU has freed up €723.8 billion in an effort to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to pull the European economy out of the recession caused by corona.…