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• Horizon 2020 "ICT for Health and Wellbeing": More information for applicants

  The Commission has recently published a document compiling the most common questions and answers related to the two eHealth calls of the 2014 Work Programme of Horizon 2020

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• Streamlined management of Horizon 2020

  With the aim of boosting its efficiency at managing Horizon 2020 grants, producing better policy and fastering grant approvals with fewer costs, the European Commission is currently in the process of reorganising its research and innovation department.

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• EU awards 3.3 million for developing virtual models for Anaesthesia

  On 20 January 2014 the EC showcased in its website the RASimAs project (Regional Anaesthesia Simulator and Assistant), a European research project funded with €3.3 million in the 7th Framework Program, aiming at providing a virtual reality simulator and assistant to doctors performing regional anaesthesia by developing the patient-specific Virtual Physiological Human models.

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• General Data protection Regulation delayed further

  The General Data protection Regulation (2012/0011 COD) will not be adopted before the European Parliament elections.

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• Influence in silico Medicine with Avicenna

  The Avicenna project kicked off on 1st October 2013. The project, which is part funded by the European Commission, aims to create a Roadmap for the development of in silico clinical trials.

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• Innovative digital technologies on Health, "transforming healthcare"

  On 17 January, the Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Ms. Neelie Kroes, published in her blog an entry through which she emphasised the beneficial impact that innovative digital technologies can have for healthcare and healthcare management.

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