Our blog includes news from LINQ, information about recent events in the projects we work with, and insights into the markets and funding programmes relevant to our projects.
EUCANCan and ESPACE hosted joint webinar on January 11, 2021
To jump-start the new year, LINQ’s two projects EUCANCan and ESPACE teamed up to host a joint webinar on January 11, 2021. LINQ organized the webinar ‘New IT approaches in genome analysis,’ which was moderated by Christian Lawerenz of Steinbeis.
On January 1, 2021, the European Union launched its new Research and Innovation Framework Programme, Horizon Europe. The programme, which replaces Horizon 2020, has a budget of €95.5 billion and is set to run for seven years, from 2021 to 2027.
With the New Year just around the corner, we look back on the year gone by. The ongoing pandemic has made 2020 a challenging year for everyone, but for us at LINQ, it has also been a year with many positive events and memorable moments.
TriageTB consortium got together virtually for the Year 1 Meeting in mid-November. Despite intermittent lockdowns and ‘the new normal’ this year, the consortium has managed to stay productive.
On October 20, LINQ coordinated and took part in StatinTB’s Year 2 Progress Meeting, where the consortium discussed the project’s progress to date and made plans for the year ahead.
Ten months into the project, the ESPACE consortium got together virtually on October 22-23, 2020, to discuss past achievements and upcoming milestones.
WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2020 paints a worrying picture. The world is behind on reaching the global TB targets and COVID-19 threatens to reverse decades of progress.
ESPACE works closely with other H2020-HCA projects
Our project ESPACE is part of the H2020-HCA cluster, in which LINQ plays a central role in encouraging cross-project collaboration. The projects held a joint virtual meeting on September 22.
The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) recently published a video highlighting the work of three of its tuberculosis (TB) projects, including PredictTB.
