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 …
Selection results for the Erasmus+ Sport projects recommended for funding are now available. All applicants have been individually notified with the results of the selection process. With a total available budget of around 53 million, 303 proposals have been recommended for funding: 106 Cooperation partnerships, 173 Small-scale partnerships, 20 European sport events and 4 Capacity …
The New European Innovation Agenda was released on 5 July 2022. The agenda lays out the European Commission’s plan to catalyse Europe to be more competitive globally and become a leading player in deep tech innovation. It also prioritises innovations that help decrease greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy dependence, while improving the health of citizens. That means helping …
The EIC Accelerator, with a unique offer of grants, blended finance and equity investments, has proven to be of high interest for start-ups and SMEs since its launch in March 2021. Due to the need of the restructuring of the EIC Fund under the provisions of the Horizon Europe legislation, the funding support to companies …
All over Europe, entrepreneurs are working on innovative solutions to cope with urban mobility challenges. However, circumstances differ across the continent resulting in unequal number and quality of funding opportunities for locally emerging businesses. Through the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS), EIT tackles such disparities by spreading its activities more evenly. More precisely, the RIS region defines …