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Αs part of the EU Cancer Screening Scheme to be put forward under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the Commission presents a new approach to support Member States increasing the uptake of cancer screening. Focusing on detection of cancers at an early stage, the objective of the proposed recommendation is to increase the number of screenings, covering more target …
The Commission has published the 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard, which reveals that the EU’s innovation performance has grown by about 10% since 2015. Compared to 2021, innovation performance in 2022 has improved for 19 Member States, and declined for eight. Compared to the EU average, global competitors such as Australia, Canada, Republic of …
The 16th edition of the European Commission’s biggest event dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy, the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), started on Monday 26 September. As it did before the pandemic, this 4-day policy conference took place in Brussels, but all sessions can also was attended online. In addition, there was a digital fair …
Ιn the margins of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans renewed the EU’s commitment to reverse biodiversity loss and fight climate change at the pledging event ‘Countdown to CBD COP15: Landmark Leaders Event for a Nature Positive World’. Raising momentum for an ambitious global deal to stop and …
LIFE GYPCONNECT released 46 bearded vultures in France’s Pre-Alps and Massif Central mountain ranges – almost double the planned number. Bearded vultures were once found across the mountains of southern Europe, but during the 19th and 20th centuries, their numbers plummeted due to poaching, a lack of wild herbivores and changes in farming practices. Today, …
During the Global Clean Energy Action Forum, the first-ever joint convening of the Clean Energy Ministerial and the Mission Innovation ministerial, in Pittsburgh, United States, the Commission has reiterated its support to the Clean Energy Technologies Demonstration Challenge and will contribute to it with over €28 billion by 2027 to advance clean energy innovation and deployment, …
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has published a new Eurydice report on Teaching and Learning in Schools in Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Schools and pupils across Europe were heavily affected by the measures taken by various authorities to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus. While complete school closures were rather rare and of …
To meet the needs of a fast-changing society and labour market, European universities start to increasingly offer smaller, highly specialised courses, called micro-credentials, or sometimes also nano-degrees or micro-learning. Being shorter and flexible, they are offered by universities and other types of providers in areas where people would want to quickly upskill or reskill to …
The Commission awards 98 projects with the 2022 European Innovative Teaching Award. This year’s edition of the European Innovative Teaching Award is themed ‘Learning together, promoting creativity and sustainability’. This theme incorporates three sub-topics – ‘creativity’ (47 winning projects), ‘inclusion’ (22 projects) and ‘sustainability’ (29 projects). The theme connects the Innovative Teaching Award to the Commission’s New European …
The primary objective of the new LIFE+ research project AgrOassis (full title: “Regenerative Approaches for Building Climate Change Resilience into EU Agricultural Regions Prone to Desertification”) is to assist climatic change adaptation in the agricultural sector of the EU’s two most south-easterly countries, Cyprus and Greece, and beyond. For reaching the objectives of the EU …