The original Silk Road

The original Silk Road: a European approach to interconnectedness

Dr Philipe Reinisch, CEO and chief explorer of the Silkroad 4.0 project, explores how a journey along Europe’s varying terrain will be the ultimate...
The legal and technical requirements for drone technologies

The legal and technical requirements for countering drone technologies

Drone Detection Sys specialises in new civilian C-UAS technologies, countering drone technologies for customers from both the public and private sectors. Among all the disruptive...
The evidence for noise-induced cardiovascular disease

The evidence for noise-induced cardiovascular disease

Thomas Münzel MD, of Johannes Gutenberg University, sets out the evidence behind traffic noise-induced cardiovascular disease and suggests how it could be mitigated. The global...
The air filtration method reducing the impact of pollution

The air filtration method reducing the impact of pollution

Smart Separations has created a low-cost and versatile air filtration method for separating micron-sized particles. This novel technology has a wide range of applications across...
SIWI®: The automated hitch system transforming agriculture

SIWI®: The automated hitch system transforming agriculture

The SIWI® automated hitch system is poised to revolutionise agriculture in Europe by boosting productivity and promoting safety on farms. Steen N Jensen explains...
The current plan of the ‘smart city’ network of SMURBS. Box border colours: pilot cities (black)

Smart cities – the SMURBS project

Dr Evangelos Gerasopoulos introduces the SMURBS project, which harnesses Earth observation in the service of ‘SMart URBan Solutions for air quality, disasters and city...
The EcoBerries project

The EcoBerries project

Europe needs sustainable and profitable value chains for organic fruit and berry products – enter the EcoBerries project. Growing consumer demand for organic food has...
The HERACLES project: safeguarding European cultural heritage against climate change

The HERACLES project – safeguarding European cultural heritage against climate change

HERACLES is promoting the resilience of European cultural heritage in the face of increasing climate change impacts, as project co-ordinator Giuseppina Padeletti explains. Europe has...
Health and usage monitoring systems – from aerospace to shipping

Health and usage monitoring systems – from aerospace to shipping

CEO Thomas JJ Meyer describes how Machine Prognostics AS is introducing health and usage monitoring systems to the shipping industry. First developed as a result...
Investigating the physics of the early Universe – the great goal of modern cosmology

Investigating the physics of the early Universe – the great goal of modern cosmology

Professor Nicola Vittorio, of the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, chronicles past, current, and possible future breakthroughs in our understanding of the physics of...