SPAIN: Food cluster purchases masks for workers

Submitted by Carolina Turcato on 20 April 2020.
Clusaga, the Galician Food Clusters (Cluster Alimentario de Galicia) in collaboration with the Xunta de Galicia and other clusters and associations, has participated in two grouped purchases of personal protection equipment, facilitating the supply of a total of 125,900 masks to companies and freelancers based in the sector and in the Galician community. This guarantees the protection of workers...
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Clusters after COVID-19

Submitted by Carolina Turcato on 20 April 2020.
The president of the cluster MetaIndustry4 has published a very interesting article related to life beyond the Coronacrisis. He underlines the importance of clusters and early preparation to get out of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic that might be interesting for all clusters in Europe: "Intermediate organisations, such as clusters or local development agencies, will have an even more...
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ITALY: the first plug-in Intensive-Care Units

Submitted by Carolina Turcato on 20 April 2020.
In the face of the Coronacrisis, an innovative project that uses repurposed shipping containers to create plug-in Intensive-Care Units (ICU) with biocontainment through negative pressure was just launched. It goes by the name CURA (Connected Units for Respiratory Aliments) and is an open-source design for emergency COVID-19 hospitals. The first model of CURA has been built and installed at a...
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BULGARIA: COVID-19 information portal for SMEs

Submitted by Carolina Turcato on 20 April 2020.
The Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency (BSMEPA) has published a new portal on its website, through which representatives of Bulgarian business can be informed about available public financial support instruments, government measures for staff retention and compensation of employees, as well as important normative documents related to the state of emergency in the country. A...
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Call for Innovations on COVID-19 Pandemic

The ENRICH in China project (European Network of Research and Innovation Centres and Hubs in China), a initiative funded under Horizon 2020, has just published a call for innovative companies with potential products or services to support the worldwide response to the COVID-19 outbreak. With a range of global investors who are looking for innovative ideas, with completed pilot tests that can be quickly scaled up to tackle the global pandemic. The investors are looking for products or services that require 500,000€ upwards and are at TRL level 6 or above. They offer a fast-turnaround investment...

SPAIN: Guidelines on desinfection and reuse of hygienic masks

Submitted by Audry Maulana on 20 April 2020.
The Health Ministry of Spain has recently published the following official guideline to desinfect and reuse of hygenic masks: Wash and disinfect the masks with normal detergent and warm water with temperature between 60º-90º (normal washing machine cycle). Soak the masks in a bleach dilluted with warm water with the proportion of 1:50 for 30 minutes. Then wash with soap and water and rinse well to...
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COVID-19 Online libraries

Submitted by Audry Maulana on 20 April 2020.
As a response to multiple research group requests and thanks to the authorisation of data owners, EisphorIA has deployed its Natural Language Processing (NLP) solution. This allows researchers to access thousands of COVID-19 related scientific papers, assisted by artificial intelligence. The service helps researchers to gain insights into the Coronavirus, identify trends and understand quickly...
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ITALY: Research facilities to experiment with COVID-19

Submitted by Carolina Turcato on 17 April 2020.
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste, an Italian research centre, aims to actively contribute to COVID-19 research, giving special priority to experiments related to SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins and studies of possible drugs for viral infection treatment. Researchers from all over the world have the possibility to benefit from remote access to Elettra/FERMI beamlines and perform experiments on a priority...
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United Nations: Global Humanitarian Response Plan

Submitted by Carolina Turcato on 17 April 2020.
The COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) is a joint effort of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), a forum that includes the United Nations and other international organisations and NGOs with a humanitarian mandate, to analyse and respond to the direct public health crisis and the indirect humanitarian consequences of the pandemic, particularly for people living in countries...
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LUXEMBOURG: Call for Startups vs COVID-19

The Ministry of the Economy in Luxembourg, together with Luxinnovation and their partners Technoport, HOST, LHOFT and LCI, have published a call for start-ups to support them and to boost the development of technological solutions/products/services that will tackle the COVID-19 crisis. With this present call for proposals, the Ministry is looking to select the best projects focusing on the development of technology-based innovative products and services intended to limit, or even overcome, the economic, health and societal impacts of the crisis. Eligible applicants are all types of young...
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