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In a Eureka first, 14 countries across five continents are combining resources to fund international R&D projects that respond to natural and man-made disasters.

Individuals and businesses need ever-faster internet on more connected devices. In response to this challenge and the resulting strain on energy consumption, a Swedish-Turkish communication systems professor and a team spanning three countries tasked artificial intelligence (AI) with reducing power use whilst still maintaining high performance on 5G networks.

At the Embassy of Canada to Germany in Berlin on 2 December 2024, Eureka welcomed a 48th country to its network: Brazil. This was formalised in a signing ceremony between Brazilian Vice Minister for Technological Development and Innovation at the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology Innovation, Daniel Gomes Almeida Filho, and German Secretary of State, Stephan Ertner, under the auspices of Eureka’s Canadian and German Co-Chair team from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and National Research Council Canada. Eureka’s collaboration with Brazil gained traction during the Portuguese Chair from 2021-2022 (with the signature of a declaration of intent) with formal proceedings for accession starting in 2023.

As ageing populations increase, so does bacterial resistance to the antibiotics used in current wound dressings. Romanian SME, SPD STAR, has adopted a novel approach: testing the disinfectant properties of natural ingredients to produce regenerative medical gauzes and bandages.

An Austrian startup, Revo Foods, has developed a pioneering method to 3D print vegan salmon fillets. The company is paving the way for a revolution in how we eat to reduce our ecological impact.

Eureka has given free tickets to 39 small and medium sized enterprises from 15 countries and 15 women innovators to attend Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on 11-14 November 2024.

Roughly 12 million tonnes of plastic waste finds its way into our oceans every year, killing one million sea birds and one hundred thousand aquatic animals and turtles.

This problem seems overwhelming until you learn of Anssi Mikola, founder and CEO of Finnish SME, RiverRecycle, who has a business model that is cleaning up plastic debris in rivers before it enters the ocean. In an Innowwide project, RiverRecycle tackled the river Mithi in Mumbai.

Eureka is bringing a delegation of 40 small and medium sized enterprises from 17 countries to the Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) in Singapore on 28-30 October 2024.

While plant-based milk products flood the market, for consumers, dairy-free yoghurt options are in short supply. Having unlocked a silky-smooth texture and great flavours to boot, Swedish company, the Green Dairy, possess a recipe for a nutritious fava bean and oat yoghurt that will fill a gap in the alternatives-to-dairy market.

By Sanna Antila

Protective wax preserves cheese throughout its maturation process. And until recently, cheese wax has been made from petrochemical raw materials. A Danish company, Procudan, set out to change this. Working together with German and Danish partners in a collaborative project, the team developed a 100% natural, fossil-free wax that is ready to encase a wide variety of cheeses.

Slovenian entrepreneur, Marko Ukota, spent 15 years racing a gasoline-guzzling supermoto. Now, with his company, Flux Performance, he is on a mission to deliver a greener version of dirt bike thrills to amateurs and pros alike across the United States of America.

The denim jeans market is worth over 70 million euro a year. It has grown yearly for decades and is forecast to continue for the foreseeable future. However, denim’s economic success comes at a high environmental cost.

Indigo is a difficult dye for fabric to absorb. For every pair of jeans made, between 50 and 100 litres of water are polluted with hazardous chemicals, such as sodium hydrosulphite, which damage water courses and ecosystems, leaving large volumes of water toxic.

Javier Frances is a Spanish textile engineer and the founder of ONDyTEC. He brings a lifetime of knowledge and experience to the leadership of a Spanish company specialising in the elimination of hazardous chemicals in fabric dyeing.

Addressed to Manuel Heitor, chair of the expert group on the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe, providing strategic advice and recommendations for its successor, FP10 – the 10th framework programme for research and innovation (2028 to 2034).

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We recently held our 2024 edition of Eureka’s flagship event in Istanbul’s Haliç Congress Center on 13-14 June 2024: the Global Innovation Summit!

By strengthening and deepening a longstanding collaboration, Norwegian SME, NordicImaging Labs and Amsterdam University Medical Centre in the Netherlands are bringing faster and better diagnosis and treatment for depression.

Waterlab in South Africa has developed a cost-effective and non-invasive method of tracking and predicting the spread of COVID-19, hepatitis E, norovirus and other infectious diseases through the microbiological analysis of wastewater.

By her own admission, Dr. Gina Pocock, Specialist Consultant at Waterlab, never had any great burning ambition to pioneer a potentially life-saving diagnostic methodology, but she possesses an obvious energy and optimism that drove the South African company’s success.