The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has published two new Eurydice reports on supporting refugee learners from Ukraine. How have European education systems responded to the large number of children and young people fleeing Ukraine? What policies and measures have been developed to support Ukrainian students across Europe? The Russian invasion of Ukraine …
A European Commission recommendation adopted by the Council of the European Union (EU) on 16 June provides new building blocks to help make micro-credentials work across institutions, businesses, sectors and borders. Micro-credentials certify the learning outcomes of short-term learning experiences, for example a short course or training. They offer a flexible, targeted way to help …
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has published two new Eurydice reports on supporting refugee learners from Ukraine. How have European education systems responded to the large number of children and young people fleeing Ukraine? What policies and measures have been developed to support Ukrainian students across Europe? The Russian invasion of Ukraine …
On Monday 13 June, the representatives of the 100 European cities selected to participate in the European Mission “100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030” met for the first time in real life in Brussels. This meeting, officially kicked off the cities journey towards climate neutrality under the NetZeroCities programme. Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, …
14 promising companies have been selected to join Europe’s largest agrifood start-up community. EIT Food’s RisingFoodStars Association is set to welcome 14 new agrifood tech scale-ups from across Europe, following a meticulous selection process with applications from over 130 companies. RisingFoodStars is a programme aimed at early scale-ups that already have paying customers or a paid pilot …
The selected projects will begin their research by the end of the year on a range of topics. The European Commission recently signed grant agreements with 49 projects that successfully applied to Horizon Europe: Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I System and Research Infrastructures. Find out more about these two funding opportunities and the upcoming projects below. …
On 14 July, the Commission launches the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions, a new prize that recognises academic and research organisations that have achieved outstanding results in the implementation of gender equality measures. This new Prize scheme intends to advance inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new European Research Area …
The Long-term Europe Africa Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE) is a 5 years programme co-funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, aiming at developing a long-term partnership between Europe and Africa on Research and Innovation (R&I) in renewable energy. The programme is conducted by a consortium of 83 partners from European and African countries. …
The EU funded Innovative Entrepreneurship project has launched the 2022 Startups4Peace (Su4P) programme in cooperation with the Embassy of Finland. The programme aims to encourage innovative entrepreneurs with new business ideas and intercommunal vision in Cyprus to come together, work in partnership and develop closer contacts between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. The successful …
Driven by curiosity and crucial to facing global challenges: in-depth study finds ERC-funded research under Horizon 2020 programme highly relevant to Europe’s policy ambitions. A new in-depth analysis of all research projects funded by the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework programme has been made public. The study – “Mapping …