Horizon 2020, the new EC 2014-2010 program for research and innovation, is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe’s global competitiveness by creating an innovation friendly environment that makes easier for innovative ideas to be turned into products and services positively impacting on Europe growth and […]
Professor Paul Stewart
Integrated approach to SMEs in EU Horizon 2020 funding
As in previous EU calls under FP6 and FP7, members of PESRI will be looking to collaborate with and support SME involvement in the Horizon 2020 calls starting in 2014. Horizon 2020 takes an integrated approach to SMEs. Through this approach, it is expected that around 20% of the total combined budget for all societal […]
Call for papers: e-conference. ‘Whither Energy Conversion? Present Trends, Current Problems and Realistic Future Solutions’
Call for Papers: 1st International e-Conference on Energies Whither Energy Conversion? Present Trends, Current Problems and Realistic Future Solutions It is with great pleasure that we announce the 1st International e-Conference on Energies, chaired by Prof. Enrico Sciubba from University of Roma Sapienza. The conference will address research topics concerned with “present trends, current problems […]
10 years ago this month in Taiwan…
Prof Qiang Zhu (now Head of the Electrical Machines and Drives Group at the University of Sheffield) and I conducted a Royal Society Funded lecture tour of Taiwan Universities and Research Centres, with particular emphasis on traction drives for electric and hybrid vehicles. My talk centred on the application of evolutionary techniques to the optimisation […]
Prof Paul Stewart leaving the University of Lincoln
On 29th November, Prof Paul Stewart will be leaving the University of Lincoln to join the University of Hull as Head of Engineering. Prof Stewart spent 4 years at Lincoln in the roles of Founding Head of Engineering, and Pro Vice Chancellor Research. He would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone at Lincoln […]