Running helps individuals improve their health and well-being, but runners do sustain injuries from time to time. Researchers say that of the 80 million runners in Europe, more than 37 million suffered a running injury during practice in the last year.

A team of scientists in Spain are working on lowering the risk of such injury by designing a new running shoe that integrates a measuring device to provide ...

European research and innovation efforts are set to receive a significant increase in funding with the announcement of the largest set of calls for proposals ever under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Worth a total of EUR 8.1 billion, projects funded by these calls are open to organisations and businesses in all EU Member States, FP7 partner states and specifically ...

Have you ever wondered how and why zebras got their stripes? Well, wonder no more: a team of researchers from Hungary and Sweden sheds fresh light on the stripe function and why the stripe pattern has evolved. Presented in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the study was funded in part by the TABANOID ('Trap for the novel control of horseflies on open-air fields') project, which received more than EUR ...

The European Commission has published several calls for proposals in various thematic areas of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

Thematic areas under the Cooperation Specific Programme include:
- 'Health' (three calls);
- 'Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology' (one call);
- 'Information and communication technologies' (two calls);
- 'Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials ...

The European Commission has published a number of calls for proposals under the specific programmes Cooperation and Capacities of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

The calls address the following areas:

Cooperation:
- Security;
- Space;
- Health (two calls);
- Environment (including climate change);
- Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology;
- Energy (three ...

The European Commission has published a number calls for proposals under all four specific programmes of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) namely Cooperation, Ideas, People and Capacities. There is also a call for proposals under the Euratom Specific Programme.

The calls address the following areas:

Cooperation:
- Food, agriculture and fisheries and biotechnology;
- Nanoscience, nanotechnologies, ...

The European Commission has published a call for proposals under the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Initiative on Digital Content and Languages of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

SMEs have ideas that sometimes cannot be implemented because they depend on the availability of data resources or specialised tools that are too expensive to obtain and maintain.

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Around 25,000 tonnes of banana plants are dumped in the ravines of Spain's Canary Islands following the fruit's harvesting each year. But now EU-funded researchers are working on a new technique that should make it possible to use these plants to produce plastic goods. The ground-breaking results will help Europeans in their quest to develop new and sustainable means of materials production.

The research ...

A partnering workshop for SME-driven innovation projects in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (research for the benefit of small and medium-sized enterprises) will be held on 7 October in Potsdam, Germany.

The Brandenburg Economic Development Board is organising the event to give project coordinators from across Europe the opportunity to present their project ideas and ...

'Higher, more effective and efficient investments in education, research and innovation are a key factor for the sustainable long-term growth of a competitive European economy and should remain a high priority, also in the context of the current global economic downturn,' reads one of the recommendations adopted by EU research ministers at the Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium on 5 and ...