Science and technology in Europe

In an exciting development for the Bulgarian company Dronamics, the European Innovation Council (EIC) has allocated an additional EUR 10 million under its EIC Fund for deep tech companies. This substantial investment follows a previous grant awarded to the drone manufacturer in 2022, as announced by Dronamics co-founder and CEO Svilen Rangelov during a recent online press conference.

Scientists will work to channel the huge emerging power of quantum computers for the common good at a new institute that opened in Geneva on Tuesday, its founders said.

The Open Quantum Institute is calling on researchers from around the world to pinpoint the most promising future applications for the fast-emerging technology — and ensure they are open and accessible to all.

In 2000, the European Commission decided to create the European Research Area in order to promote closer cooperation between EU countries, facilitate the mobility of researchers, and enhance the innovation and competitiveness of research institutions. The European Research Council (ERC) and the Horizon Europe funding program are the fruits of this effort.

Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov delivered a notable address at an information day focused on financing high-tech scientific research and innovation, jointly organized by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the Ministry of Innovation and Growth.

Erdem Yiğit Ertörer, a 26-year-old Turkish Ph.D. student in the U.S., has realized his childhood dream to work at CERN by qualifying to participate in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of the five major experiments conducted at CERN.

Doing his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University, Ertörer is expected to spend about three years working on CERN's CMS experiment.

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is about to set up an information center in Cyprus, called the EIT Community RIS Hub and is already in search of a national secretary to lead and coordinate it.

The announcement was made on Wednesday at an info day event in Cyprus, co-organized by the EIT and the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF).

Ljubljana – The Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GZS) signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport to cooperate in promoting Slovenian companies’ cooperation with CERN in Geneva, which operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory and is the site of the world’s largest particle accelerator.

The Commission’s proposal has sparked significant controversy among EU Member States

They used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT)

Maribor – Supercomputer Vega was formally launched in Maribor on Tuesday, putting Slovenia on the global map of computer super powers. It is the first in a series of eight planned high-performance computing (HPC) centres in the EU.

Vega is a 6.9 petaflops supercomputer, which means it can do 6.9 million billion computing operations per second, and it cost EUR 17.2 million.