EPFL projects make it past the first round to becoming FET Flagships

Two projects coordinated by EPFL - the Time Machine and Health EU - have made it into the second round of the selection process to become FET Flagships. If selected, they will receive one billion euros over ten years as part of the European Commission's ambitious funding program. Both of the EPFL projects that applied for the European Commission's FET Flagship program have successfully cleared the first hurdle. These projects are the Time Machine, headed by Frédéric Kaplan at the Digital Humanities Laboratory, and Health EU, run by Adrian Ionescu at the Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory (Nanolab). Two other projects in which EPFL is a research partner are also still in the running: Robotics Flagship and Digitwins. A total of 33 projects from universities across Europe have applied for the program, which is intended to support future and emerging technologies (FET). Only 17 of them - just over half - were selected for the second round, scheduled to end on 18 September 2018.