January 2014

The last January 14^th, the European Research Council (ERC) allocated 575 million euro within the first ERC Consolidator Grants competition: 312 grants for excellence research projects, with an average funding of about 1.84 million euro each.

Horizon 2020 identified space research as one of Europe's key industrial technologies. The Commission highlighted its potential for EU innovation and competitiveness, but what are the consequences and advantages for our country? We had the pleasure to speak with Augusto Cramarossa, Head of National and International relations Unit of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

In the future the augmented reality will play a key role in medicine and Italy is among the first in Europe to investigate this possibility. At the PERCRO laboratories of the Institute of Communication Technologies, Information and Perception (TeCIP) of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, started the new ReMeDi Project - Remote Medical Diagnostician, within the Seventh Framework Program (FP7). We talked about ReMeDi with Carlo Alberto Avizzano , coordinator of the