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Finding and measuring 21st-century skills

Companies want employees who can think critically, work collaboratively and communicate through new technology. A revolutionary project is teaching... More

Fighting cyber threats you can’t see coming

Berlin’s Trifense, an EIT Entrepreneurship Award winner, takes a new approach to Internet security – and starts to gain traction in the... More

The end of the remote control

Somewhere in the world, this scene is taking place. The lights are low in the living room, and a couple wants to switch from a video game to a movie. More

The classroom of the future is here

Innovative teachers + technology + smart policies = the active learning and collaborative skills required for the 21st century. More

European Institute of Innovation & Technology, a decent job, but…

Looking back at his three-year term as chairman of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), Martin Schuurmans has mixed feelings. More

Beyond the social network revolution

Microsoft is taking Facebook to the office and tailoring your Twitter feed. More

Why teens really do need social network sites

Teenagers use Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to form their social identities – in a world that may or may not include their parents. More

Who’s in charge here? Consumers driving corporate technology purchases

More than 100 million people in Western Europe will buy a smartphone this year. Within minutes of opening the package they will be setting up... More

Digital heirlooms, your lifetime on a chip

When Richard Banks’ grandfather died about five years ago, he left behind a suitcase filled with hundreds of photographs, many depicting his... More

The smart way to roll out smart grids

Governments around the world are racing to invest in smart electricity grids to reduce energy consumption and battle climate change. The European... More

It’s getting personal: computerised health records come of age

“Every human being is author of his own health or disease,” the Buddha said. Some 2,500 years later, technology is allowing patients to... More

Back to the boot camp: Fitness training for new enterprises

Belgian IT engineer Didier Beka had a new idea: software that would enable people with hearing or speaking disabilities to communicate by telephone.... More

Microsoft plays host to French robotics revolutionary

For French robotics pioneer Jean-Christophe Baillie, an entrepreneurial adventure that began in Paris five years ago led to a visit to... More

Gaming’s serious side: Helping brain-damaged patients

Fishing Cactus is a start-up that began in the world of entertainment games. Now it’s moving into what are called “serious games”... More

Kinect: The touch-free revolution in gaming

Today’s computer games depend on hand-held controllers that respond to physical touch. Kinect does away with any physical connection to the... More

Going for Go

Go is a game so complex that raw computing power was never going to be enough to turn it into a competitive computer game. But two Cambridge... More

Enabling technologies in eHealth

Europe and the US may have very different ways of funding health, but they have much in common, too. A new program is exploring what we might learn... More

Hungry? Reach for the cloud…

Superbowl Sunday is big business in the US as people all over the nation tune in to watch the American football match of the year. Pizza deliveries... More

Personalised healthcare: the information challenge

There is one game-changer that can turn the promise of personalised healthcare into a reality. It is healthcare IT, says Alan Davies from GE... More

Robotics gets personal

Huge industrial robots are now a mature industry. Young French entrepreneur Jean-Christophe Baillie believes it is time for them to move from... More

Inside the cloud

The cloud is one of the most popular terms in IT today but perhaps also one of the least well defined. FUTURES guides you through the how and the why. More

eHealth systems putting the patient at the centre

Interoperability and building trust in the privacy and security of eHealth systems is the route to patient-centric healthcare More

Kiwigrid tames your household energy consumption

There’s a new technology coming into your home. But unlike many, this one should save you money. More

Smart software improves environmental forecasting

Environmental scientists face many challenges in monitoring and understanding our planet’s changing climate. More

Commission to propose Innovation Act

Is a European Innovation Act what’s needed to make Europe more innovative and strengthen growth and competitiveness in the EU? Policymakers,... More

Time to get going again

When the new Commission is appointed, it will find a raft of proposals waiting for it – all aimed at putting research, development and... More

The swarm is coming… Making molecular computing a reality

Inspired by biology, Klaus-Peter Zauner is working on a radically new kind of computer. More

Keep it cool: the greening of Microsoft’s data centers

Microsoft’s first European “mega data centre”, which opened recently on the western outskirts of Dublin, uses 50 per cent less... More

Small cameras that not only see, they watch!

Small computing devices, such as enhanced cameras, are becoming smarter and more capable: not only do they record visual input (video) but they are... More

How creativity toolkits and virtual collaborative environments accelerate each other

Computing pervades everyday life: whether used in business or leisure, by individuals or communities, it offers opportunities for new ways of living... More

Coming to your screen: the high-definition Internet

In an era of continual Internet innovation, one of the biggest trends is the Internet’s rapid growth as a platform for rich, high-definition... More

The new ‘HD view’ of photography

Just when you thought there was nothing new in pictures, along comes HD View and explodes all your preconceptions about what photography can do. More

Photosynth: creating 3D photographic experiences of time and place

The Photosynth experience justifies the use of the old truism: it has to be seen to be believed. More

When geographic intelligence goes mainstream…

“When I'm making plans for my spare time, the most convenient way to do it is to ask for the location and places of restaurants, tourist sites... More

The researchers’ directive

Implementation of the Directive by member states is essential to the paradigm of ‘brain circulation' and the development of the European... More

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