From 13-17 June, more than 700 participants (scientists, students, representatives of industrial companies) attended the Graphene Week conference in Warsaw (PL). Graphene Week is the most important event staged by the flagship in 2016. If you missed it you can find here a selection of video interviews, on line articles & background info. Enjoy the reading!

The map shows the countries' participation in FET projects in the framework of Horizon 2020 programme. The map shows the participation in Horizon 2020 FET projects, as of June 2016. It indicates the round-off number of participants per country and distribution of funding. Until now, there has been 94 actions with signed grant agreement (Research and Innovation Actions, Coordination and Support Actions, Framework Partnership Agreement). The biggest number of projects' participants comes from Germany, the UK and France.

Günther H. Oettinger, Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society outlined the Commission’s plan to launch a €1 billion flagship initiative on quantum technology.

The FET Proactive call on HPC aims to leverage the existing European strengths for building the next generation of extreme performance computing and taking advantage of the new opportunities created from the transition from peta to exascale computing. The ultimate goal is to achieve world-class extreme scale computing capabilities in platforms, technologies and applications.

Six leading international artists will be hosted within Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) projects to collaborate in areas such as quantum physics, supercomputing, robotics and life sciences.

FET Open continues to foster early-stage research for radically new technological possibilities. It supports promising novel ideas from all technological areas without prescribing any theme. Funding is available for Research and Innovation Actions as well as for Coordination and Support Actions. Two topics are currently open.