Startup Europe’s next activity is Startup Europe Week, a bottom up movement that aims to set up a meetup in every single region of Europe to inform startups about the available support and resources both at local and EU level. Read more here.

Read about the EU Code week and its achievements here.

Funding opportunities under Horizon 2020 are set out in multiannual work programmes, which cover the large majority of support available. The work programmes are prepared by the European Commission within the framework provided by the Horizon 2020 legislation and through a strategic programming process integrating EU policy objectives in the priority setting.

The current Work Programme covers all calls for proposals that will be published under the Thematic Section. You can learn more about the Work Programmes and download them from here.

The PAYPLUG LABS project addresses the needs of SMEs who wish to collect payments online,” explains project coordinator Camille Tyan, CEO of French start-up PayPlug. “What we are doing is developing a next-generation payment platform that reduces software integration costs by a factor of five and provides fraud protection thanks to modern statistical algorithms. In addition, new sophisticated technology will allow PayPlug to accurately detect risky vendors and at the same time register legitimate businesses rapidly.”

Read the full story at the Horizon 2020 website.

This is a new publication by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The “World Intellectual Property Indicators 2015” report, provides a wide range of indicators covering the following areas of intellectual property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms and plant variety protection. It draws on data from national and regional IP offices, WIPO and the World Bank.

You can read the original announcement and download the report from the WIPO web site here.