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Agnès Arbat from Spain has won the 2025 EU prize for woman innovators. She is the co-founder of a company that develops innovative drugs to enhance fertility. Camille Bouget (France) took the Rising Innovator award and Débora Andreia Campelo Campos (Portugal), the EIT Women Leadership prize.
The European Commission will fund 149 doctoral programmes with €608.6 million to train over 1800 PhD candidates in and outside academia. The doctorates will investigate topics such as developing privacy for smart speech technology and using artificial intelligence in Parkinson’s disease.
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