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What are some water quality monitoring challenges faced around the world today? Key UN agencies, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and water quality experts from around the globe are working on them! During the Innovation Workshop, participants engaged in focused and deep discussions and received expert input. The bulk of their time was dedicated …
At the end of the COP28 UN Climate Conference in Dubai, European Union negotiators succeeded, with partners from around the world, to keep alive the possibility of delivering on the commitment in the Paris Agreement to limit global average temperature increase to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels. At COP28, the first Global Stocktake was concluded on …
On 28 January 1981, the Council of Europe adopted Convention 108, the first legally binding international instrument on data protection. To commemorate this landmark development, the EU celebrates Data Protection Day every 28 January. HaDEA manages several projects funded under Horizon 2020 dealing with and improving data protection, one of them shared their success story in an interview. …
The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) participates with a research team led by Professor Loizos Michael (Computational Cognition Lab and Joint M.Sc. Programme in “Cognitive Systems”) in the new three-year Erasmus+ project “ADMIT: generative Ai anD large language Models In higher educaTion”. ADMIT is a collaborative partnership project between higher distance learning institutions aiming at developing a comprehensive LLM-ed framework and guidelines, and establishing …
The European Commission published its 2023 Summary Report on the Implementation of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds), showcasing some of the overarching achievements of the ESI funds as things stood at the end of 2022. These funds are the main financial instruments of Cohesion Policy, supporting regional development investments from the 2014 – 2020 …
A meta-analysis testing interactions of environmental policies shows that combining behavioural and traditional instruments works better than deploying a single intervention. A new study investigates the potential synergies between traditional and innovative climate policy interventions and finds that policy mixes tend to be more effective than individual approaches. In fact, policy mixes outperformed the most …
The energy transition will accelerate demand for labour at a time when industry is already struggling with shortages. The disruption caused by structural changes needs to be managed well to ensure that the labour market is fit for the net-zero age. As the European Green Deal unfolds and transforms the industry, it is crucial to …
The European Child Guarantee, the first EU-level policy addressing childhood challenges and exclusion, has a new monitoring framework. This will be a helpful tool to examine the access of children to early childhood education, regular school-based activities, nutrition at school, healthcare, and adequate housing. The new monitoring framework aims at tracking, through concrete statistical indicators, …
The European Commission published the results of the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the following calls under the Digital Europe Programme: Cloud Data and Artificial Intelligence Accelerating best use of technologies Advanced Digital Skills The agency has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned calls. Applicants have been informed about the evaluation …
Professor Alexandros Papayannis (LiDAR Team, Laboratory of Optoelectronics, Lasers and their applications, Department of Physics, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens) within the framework of CleanCloud Horizon-2020 research program participates in a research mission to the Villum research station (https://villumresearchstation.dk), North Greenland (81°36’ N, 16°40’ W). The NTUA LiDAR …