Ministry for the Future/Sweden

"Every country should have a Ministry for the Future. It's no good just reacting to things that are happening,” says Kristina Persson Swedish Minister for Strategic Planning. via Twitter — Read on mobile.twitter.com/MedicalGrantsPP/status/1068420843322179586

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Grantee of EIT Health

€2 MILLION TO DEVELOP REAL-TIME SAMPLE MONITORING The winner and the grantee of the EIT Health Wild Card competition and is DX-Labtrack GmbH, which provides real-time monitoring to ensure the quality of blood samples is maintained, from the doctor’s office to the lab. Technical University of Munich, Germany, provides incubator support. Read more: http://wildcard.eithealth.eu/first-wild-card-winner-dx-labtrack-receiving-e2-million-to-develop-real-time-sample-monitoring/

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Update: EU Steering Group on Health

The Steering Group on Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases held its first formal meeting in Luxembourg this week. Its aim is to support EU countries reach SDGs health targets Read on: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/sante/newsletter-specific-archive-issue.cfm?archtype=specific&newsletter_service_id=327&newsletter_issue_id=11561&page=1&fullDate=Sat%2011%20Aug%202018&lang=default

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Open access for scientific publications, Nature 05 November 2018

On 5 November 2018 the Wellcome Trust in the UK  and the Gates Foundation in the United States with more than €2 billion research grants volume in total in 2017 announced that they were joining the open-access initiative, Plan S. They said their move was intended to “ensure that research findings are shared widely and are made freely available at the time of publication. Read on: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07300-

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