From 1 January 2018, the ERCIM member CWI has been merged with the NWO Institutes Organisation, NWO-I. The other research institutes in the Netherlands that joined the recent merger are ASTRON, NIOZ, NSCR and SRON. The Dutch institutes AMOLF, ARCNL, DIFFER and Nikhef were already part of NWO-I.
CWI houses a new innovation space of partner EIT Digital, which was opened on 2 November. With this new location in the financial heart of the Netherlands, EIT Digital wants to boost the development of FinTech, together with its partners in the Netherlands and Europe.
As part of its Digital News Initiative (DNI), Google announced a €150 million innovation fund that supports innovation in Digital News Journalism. In its most recent round of funding, Google supported “Check-it: Visualizing fake news on social media”, a collaborative project between FORTH and University of Cyprus.
