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Over €4 million worth of EU funding has been awarded to the international network ‘ ENTWINE informal care ’, led by Prof. Mariët Hagedoorn and Prof. Robbert Sanderman from the department of Health Psychology at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG). The grant will be used to train 15 novice researchers to study and solve questions relating to sustainable ways of providing informal care. Informal carers provide unpaid care to relatives or friends with a chronic illness, disability or another long-term care need. An ageing population and medical advances are causing a sharp rise...

Cybersightings, Sept. 2013 In his Science editorial (A perverted view of 'impact,' Science , 2013 Jun 14, p. 1265 ), cell biologist and biochemist Marc Kirschner warns against National Institute of Health's recent introduction of ''impact and significance'' as an explicit criterion to funding decisions. According to Kirschner, overemphasis on short-term impact (especially in...

The design contest solicits entries from student teams worldwide and is aimed at finding solutions that help keep people with cognitive impairments independent as long as possible. The...

At the end of January, the European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two FET Flagship projects . Federating more than 80 European...

Via KurzweilAI DARPA has announced the start of the next DARPA Robotics Challenge . This time, the goal is to develop ground robots that perform complex tasks in "dangerous, degraded...