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Offshore wind farms

Topics: 10th Call, Publications,

Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment

Intelligent tools driving the next great transformation

Topics: 9th Call, Publications,

How the European Union and the EU Member States are addressing digital transformation

Best Practice Guidelines for Promoting Small and Businesses in Public Procurement Markets

Topics: 9th Call, Public Procurement , Publications,

Public procurement constitutes a large part of total government expenditure, generating significant economic activity.

Brazil - European Union Exchange about Food Waste

Topics: Agriculture and Rural Development, Publications, Top Down 2017,

The exchanges of experiences between the European Union and Brazil on coping with food waste contribute to mutual learning and help in designing public policies that are also aligned with the need to strengthen food security.

Photonics and Nanotechnology Innovations for Medical Devices

Topics: 9th Call, Publications,

Brazil-European Union Exchange Program to combat domestic violence

Topics: Success stories, Human Rights, Publications, Top Down 2017,

Brazil and European Union Collaboration to combat domestic violence againts women

A glimmer of light for bringing down the utility bill

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

Brazil has used the same electric utility metring and billing system for a long time now: in sum, a technician goes door-to-door every month to read the numbers on residential metres, interval clocks which, in a majority of Brazilian households have been equipped with the same technology for over thirty years. The central challenge is that this technological gap has made it nearly impossible for end consumers to manage daily consumption. Nor do the metres provide any indication as to the times and appliances that consume the most energy, for the simple reason that they are not properly equipped for this purpose.

Using satellites to manage urban chaos

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

Disorganized growth seems to be a shared tendency in urban centres around the world. Not even so-called planned cities have escaped this phenomenon. For example, Brasília, originally designed for 500,000 inhabitants, currently has a population of over 2 million and is home to the largest shantytown in Latin America.

Innovative public service?

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

“New”, “technology”, “invention”, “novelty”, “doing things differently”, “good ideas”. These are just some of the words and expressions that come to mind when we think about Innovation. To be sure, it is a complex, broad and, at times, even abstract concept, one that is as difficult to define as it is to achieve.

Nanotechnology is already a reality

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

Try to imagine 1 metre, then divide by 1 billion and you will arrive at 1 nanometre. This tiny particle is the base unit of nanotechnology, used to research and develop technologies in a diversity of scientific fields, from medicine to computer science.