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Commissioner for Energy, Kadri Simson, participated together with the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, and the Ministers for Energy of Cyprus (Natasa Pilides) and Greece (Kostas Skrekas) in a ceremony in Nicosia marking the start of the construction stage of the EuroAsia Interconnector. This EU Project of Common Interest will consist of a 1000 MW …
The Commission has received 78 high quality proposals under a €95 million EU Soil Mission call. Evaluations are ongoing. The Commission received 78 proposals in response to the Horizon Europe Mission Soil call with a deadline of 27 September. With the 2022 soil mission call for proposals, the Commission seeks to advance soil literacy and societal …
The Commission is formally endorsing a new Solar Photovoltaic Industry Alliance, with the aim of scaling up manufacturing technologies of innovative solar photovoltaic products and components. This will contribute to accelerating the deployment of solar power across the EU and improving the resilience of the EU’s energy system. The Alliance is one of the concrete initiatives of the EU Solar …
The 1st Ocean Partnership Forum between the EU and Canada took place in Brussels on 3 and 4 October. Co-designed by the European Commission and the Department of Fisheries and Ocean of Canada, it brought together nearly 40 experts in the field of ocean observation and data sharing, coming from research institutes and public administration in …
A total of EUR 15.1 million in EU funding available for two new EMFAF Calls The European Commission launched two new calls for proposals under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) with EU funding of EUR 15.1 million in total. The two calls are “Blue careers for a sustainable blue economy” and “Regional …
The deadline of this year’s LIFE Clean Energy Transition call is quickly approaching and many applicants are in the middle of putting their proposals together, in order to submit them by 16 November 2022. Find in this article some important tips. Projects under LIFE-2022-CET receive 95% funding support and you can submit your project ideas to 18 funding topics under …
The Commission has published Guidelines for teachers and educators in primary and secondary schools, on how to address disinformation and promote digital literacy in their classrooms. The guidelines provide practical support for teachers and educators and include definitions of technical concepts, class-exercises and how to encourage healthy online habits. This toolkit covers three main topics: …
The Commission has launched the second set of calls for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility Digital programme. With a planned budget of €277 million, the aim is to support projects for secure, fast and high-capacity networks, backbone infrastructures, including quantum communication, cloud federation and submarine cables, strengthen the networks that connect rural, remote and …
On 4-8 October 2022, the 6th MedCLIVAR conference took place in Marrakesh, Morocco (https://www.medclivarconf.eu). This was the first of this biennial series of meetings that was hosted by a North African country. This successful event had a particular focus on the effects of climate change that are already threatening the societies and ecosystems of the …
On 10 -12 October 2022, The Cyprus Institute hosted a Regional Meeting on Integrated Energy and Climate Planning, organized in the frame of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s project RER2018 “Analysing Low Carbon Pathways towards an Ambitious Decarbonised Energy Sector by 2050”. Academics and senior officers from governmental authorities of fourteen countries (Albania, Armenia, Bosnia …