scholarly journals POLLAR: Impact of air POLLution on Asthma and Rhinitis; a European Institute of Innovation and Technology Health (EIT Health) project

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Bousquet ◽  
Josep M. Anto ◽  
Isabella Annesi-Maesano ◽  
Toni Dedeu ◽  
Eve Dupas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
European Institute ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Health Project

scholarly journals A New Face of Mining Engineer—International Curricula to Sustainable Development and Green Deal (A Case Study of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1393
Author(s):  
Karolina Adach-Pawelus ◽  
Anna Gogolewska ◽  
Justyna Górniak-Zimroz ◽  
Barbara Kiełczawa ◽  
Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Engineer ◽  
European Institute ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Development Goals

The mining industry in the world has undergone a major metamorphosis in recent years. These changes have forced higher education to modify the curricula in a thorough way to meet the mining entrepreneurs’ needs. The paper’s scope is to answer the research question—how to attract students and implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in higher education in mining engineering? Based on the case of international cooperation carried out at the Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) within the framework of educational projects co-financed by European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities Raw Materials (EIT RM), the authors prove that the idea of sustainable development can be introduced into the system of teaching mining specialists at every level of their higher education (engineering and master’s studies), through developing their new competencies, introducing new subjects taking into account innovative solutions and technologies, or placing great emphasis on environmental and social aspects. Examples of new curricula show a good way to change into the new face of a mining engineer.

scholarly journals Sieben Jahre EIT RawMaterials Regional Center in Leoben – Rohstoffforschung im Kontext Globaler Entwicklung

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Feiel ◽  
Hanno Bertignoll
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Wird Eine ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
European Institute ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
European University ◽  
Innovation Community

ZusammenfassungDas Resources Innovation Center Leoben (RIC Leoben) an der Montanuniversität bündelt heute die internationalen Beteiligungen der Institution im Bereich der Nachhaltigkeit in Rohstoffforschung und Ausbildung. Das RIC geht zurück auf das Jahr 2015, wo es als Regional Center des EIT RawMaterials, einer Knowledge & Innovation Community des European Institute for Innovation and Technology, einem europäischen Netzwerk aus mittlerweile rund 300 Partnern des Rohstoffsektors, gegründet wurde. Besonders in den Bereichen Bildung, Sustainable Exploration & Mining, Technological Innovation und Recycling sowie der strategischen Weiterentwicklung und Mitgestaltung der Community ist die Montanuniversität durch das RIC hier tätig. 2017 wurden die Aktivitäten um die Mitgliedschaft in der EIT Climate-KIC, einer weiteren Knowledge & Innovation Community, erweitert, in der die Themen Urban Transitions und Sustainable Production Systems vorangetrieben werden, um die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels zu begrenzen und eine klimaresiliente Gesellschaft zu fördern. Ein zusätzlicher Bereich im Portfolio des RIC Leoben sind die Sustainable Development Goals der Vereinten Nationen, zu denen durch vielerlei Initiativen beigetragen wird. Eine Schlüsselaktivität in diesem Bereich ist die Implementierung ebendieser im österreichischen Hochschulsektor durch ein gemeinsames Netzwerk aller österreichischen Universitäten und die Übernahme einer Patenschaft für SDG 12. Die Aktivitäten des RIC haben auch zur inhaltlichen Gestaltung der European University on Responsible Consumption and Production beigetragen, die erfolgreich im Lead aus dem RIC heraus gegründet wurde. Ebenso bündelt das RIC die Wasserstoff- und Kohlenstoffaktivitäten der Universität. Allen Arbeiten im Resources Innovation Center Leoben ist eines gemein: Sie sind thematisch verknüpft und ergänzen sich. Die Resultate zielen alle auf nachhaltige Innovation im Ressourcenbereich für eine bessere Zukunft ab.

scholarly journals Role of innovations and knowledge – infrastructure and institutions

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
András Nábrádi
Keyword(s):  
National Income ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Long Run ◽  
European Institute ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Capital Development

There is a well known saying: Research converts money into knowledge, innovation converts knowledge into money. The knowledge-based economy has four pillars: innovation, education, the economic and institutional regime, and information infrastructure. Transformation towards a knowledge-based economy will necessarily shift the proportion and growth of national income derived from knowledge-based industries, the percentage of the workforce employed in knowledge-based jobs and the ratio of firms using technology to innovate. Progress towards a knowledge-based economy will be driven by four elements: human capital development, knowledge generation and exploitation (R&D), knowledge infrastructure. Increased investment in these four areas will certainly have an impact. National experience, however, suggests that an incremental approach will not work. Nations that have achieved accelerated growth in outputs and capabilities have acted decisively, targeting investments in areas of strategic opportunity. The organizational and infrastructural improvement of research requires supranational cooperation and the promotion of the free movement of knowledge. Therefore, the EU decision on the establishment of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which ensures that the GDP proportion for research and development (R&D) shall achieve 3% stipulated by member states in the long run, is particularly welcome.

Air Pollution in the Making

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 901-924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Health Project ◽  
Modeling Practices

This article traces an emergent tension in an interdisciplinary public health project called Weather Health and Air Pollution (WHAP). The tension centered on two different kinds of data of air pollution: monitored and modeled data. Starting out with monitoring and modeling practices, the different ways in which they enacted air pollution are detailed. This multiplicity was problematic for the WHAP scientists, who were intent on working across disciplines, an initiative driven primarily by the epidemiologists who imbued the project with meaning and value as the protagonists of “health.” To work collaboratively implies a stable, singular, and shared research object, however: one kind of data, one version of air pollution. In detailing two attempts by researchers to address the inadequacies of modeled and monitored data, this article explores the ways in which difference and multiplicity were negotiated and transformed. In doing so, this article suggests that it is the mobility and instability of data that are particularly fruitful for exploring the facilitation and enactment of new realities, while also making explicit the emergent problematics and partialities which inevitably result.

scholarly journals Innovatív mikrobiológiai diagnosztikai gyorsteszt az antibiotikumrezisztencia terjedése ellen

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Szilvia Farkas ◽  
Zoltán Albert Aszalós ◽  
Dóra Szabó
Keyword(s):  
European Institute ◽  
Innovation And Technology

A cikkben egy új, innovatív gyorstesztet mutatunk be, mellyel közvetlenül a beteg mintájából ki lehet mutatni a legjelentősebb antibakteriális rezisztenciamechanizmusokat. A francia NG Biotech cég által kifejlesztett eszközt – az Európai Innovációs és Technológiai Intézet (European Institute of Innovation and Technology – EIT Health) által finanszírozott, és Magyarországon a Semmelweis Egyetem, illetve a Dél-Pesti Centrumkórház részvételével zajló – AMR DetecTool projekt keretei között vizsgáljuk és összehasonlítjuk a jelenleg használt standard módszerekkel.

An analysis of rhetorical devices in policy narratives on the European Institute of Innovation and Technology: Implications for European higher education

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florin D. Salajan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Framing ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
European Institute ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
European Higher Education

This article examines the evolution of the policy narrative created by the European Commission around the establishment of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in order to rethink and spearhead new processes of innovation in the European Union (EU) through a better coordination of output in academia, research and industry. A discourse analysis was conducted on several key European Commission documents, later formalized into EU regulations, which confer the EIT its legal basis for its operation. By employing a three-fold policy analysis framework, a series of rhetorical devices are extracted to examine the policy framing, dynamics and instruments that operate as motivators for the construction of a persuasive initiative to be set in action in the service of innovation for a more competitive Europe. Through this investigation, a larger agenda is exposed in the EIT’s policy framework, with wide implications and significant ramifications for the evolution of European higher education.

scholarly journals Composting Hydrochar-OFMSW Digestate Mixtures: Design of Bioreactors and Preliminary Experimental Results

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1496
Author(s):  
Donato Scrinzi ◽  
Gianni Andreottola ◽  
Luca Fiori
Keyword(s):  
Carbonaceous Material ◽  
Hydrothermal Carbonization ◽  
Industrial Plant ◽  
Oxygen Control ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Compost Stability ◽  
European Institute ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Offline Measurement ◽  
Batch Bioreactors

An increasing number of industrial plants integrate the anaerobic digestion (AD) of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) with a subsequent composting phase. To improve the plant productivity, a fraction of OFMSW digestate can be converted into a carbonaceous material, called hydrocar (HC), through Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC), and then composted together with the OFMSW digestate itself, to produce “hydrochar co-compost”. The aim of this paper is to present the design and assembly of batch bioreactors, built in-house to investigate the co-composting process of OFMSW digestate and its HC, and to provide some preliminary results. The OFMSW digestate from an industrial plant was carbonized at 200 °C for 3 h in a 2 L HTC reactor, to produce wet HC after filtration. The ratio of OFMSW digestate and green waste (1:1) used as bulking medium was reproduced in four bioreactors with an increasing percentage of HC substituting the OFMSW digestate (0, 25, 50, 75%). The bioreactors managed to effectively compost the solid wet biomasses in a wet environment with temperature and oxygen control, while measuring online the oxygen consumption and thus the dynamic respirometric index (DRI). The DRI24,max measured with AIR-nl solid respirometer (standardized offline measurement) started from values above 800 mg O2 kgVS−1 h−1 before composting and dropped at the end of the process to values in the range 124–340 mg O2 kgVS−1 h−1 for the four mixes, well below the recommended limit of 500 mg O2 kgVS−1 h−1 for high-quality compost stability. These offline DRI values were confirmed by the online DRI measurements. This research is part of the international C2Land Project funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (EIT Climate-KIC), which is greatly acknowledged.

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