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• The Czech Republic joins the EuroHPC declaration

  By signing the European Declaration on High-Performance Computing (Euro-HPC) the Czech Republic becomes the 14th country to participate in the European initiative to build world-class computing and data infrastructures in Europe.

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• New Commission guidance on data protection rules

  Ahead of the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018, the EC has published practical guidelines.

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• How should the EU fund and nurture breakthrough innovation?

  On 26 January, the independent High-Level Group of Innovators who advises the EC published a report including recommendations on how the European Innovation Council (EIC) should contribute to accelerating breakthrough innovation.

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• New call for project proposals under the EU Health Programme

  Following the adoption of the 2018 Work Programme of the Third EU Health Programme, the Commission opened the corresponding annual call for project proposals. The applications can be submitted on the research & innovation participant portal by 26 April 2018.

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• Horizon 2020: boosting the impact of the programme after 2020

  The EC has recently published a Communication summarizing the key findings of the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 and of separate evaluations undertaken at European level.

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• The Virtual Physiological Human – a 'digital twin' for patients

  On 18 December 2017, Interface Focus published a themed issue ‘The virtual physiological human: translating the VPH to the clinic’ organised by Alfons Hoekstra, Frank Gijsen, Ed van Bavel, Marie Siebes and Liesbet Geris.

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