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To close the digital skills gap, Europe must modernize its outdated public digital education programs, integrate and streamline private digital education initiatives, and better coordinate pan-European digital skills initiatives, networks and ecosystems. DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT The digital transformation, accelerated by the COVID-19 induced digital surge of the past two years, requires a skills revolution in …
Already several years out of school, and working as a political secretary at the IG Metall trade union in Munich, Falko Blumenthal is typical of the young professionals who find EIT Digital Summer School is a perfect fit for their needs. The programme saw Blumenthal join a team of other professionals and master’s students in …
On 31 August, the European Commission approved the first package of CAP strategic plans for seven countries: Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. This is an important step for the implementation of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on 1 January 2023. The new CAP is designed to shape the transition to a sustainable, resilient and modern …
Two projects have been selected under the 2021 CEF Energy call for preparatory studies for cross-border renewable energy projects. The funding for these projects amounts for around EUR 300.000 and will support pioneering actions representing diverse options of cross-border cooperation that the renewable sector offers. The first project selected, promoted by Regionalwerk Chiemgau-rupertiwinkel, is the Eneregio …
Forests are home to 80% of the Earth’s biodiversity. However, they are under severe threat due to out-of-control forest fires. This summer has been and continues to be particularly difficult. Last week, Portugal entered a state of alert, with temperatures reaching 38C coupled with dangerously strong winds. Residents were sent a text message warning of …
The European Commission has established the first list of renewable energy cross-border (CB RES) projects under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The list marks the start of the implementation of the window of CEF Programme, dedicated to renewable energy and decarbonisation. CB RES projects are identified by the CEF Regulation and aim to promote cross-border cooperation between Member …
Discover opportunities to boost your digital education skills, competences and knowledge through the European Digital Education Hub this autumn. The European Digital Education Hub has already welcomed more than 900 enthusiastic education stakeholders from various sectors across Europe looking to co-create and exchange knowledge. With the help of community experts, in August we provided two online onboarding …
A research group at the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC) of The Cyprus Institute, led by Prof. Constantia Alexandrou, has been developing scalable algorithms enabling large-scale simulations, using some of the world’s largest supercomputers. The main contributors in recent developments of such algorithms are the researchers Dr Jacob Finkenrath and Dr Simone Bacchio, …
The 1st of September and the start of the 2022/23 academic year signifies the beginning of a new three-year project (2022-2025) led by UCLan Cyprus, under the prestigious and highly competitive Horizon Europe programme of the European Union. The Union’s main funding programme for research and innovation. The PREPARED project will tackle this challenge and …
During the summer 2021, a team from The Cyprus Institute composed of researchers from the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC) of the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre (STARC), and the Unmanned Systems Research Laboratories (USRL) of the Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C), with the support of the United Nations …