Αύγουστος 2013

Electric vehicles (e-vehicles, or EVs) are set to play a key role in the future of urban mobility, reducing pollution, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels and saving drivers money. Although e-vehicles make up only a tiny fraction of the European car fleet at present, sales are expected to grow exponentially over the coming years, thanks, in no small measure, to advances in e-vehicle technology being made by EU-funded researchers.

An EU-funded project that aims to demonstrate the importance of mobile cloud computing to EU business was presented recently at the Future Network and Mobile Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. Through the launch of a European cloud platform for business apps, the project hopes to put Europe at the cutting edge of this emerging technology.

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Climate change is having a profound impact on our oceans, but how and to what extent remains unclear. As part of a global effort, a European project is plunging the ocean depths to find answers.

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Transnationalism has in recent years gained attention increasingly in line with the growing transnational mobility of people. European researchers collaborated with a view to clarifying and comparing the complex and multilevel processes of this social phenomenon.

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