Stakeholders have highlighted COFUND as a key instrument to boost research practice and improve the attractiveness and sustainability of researchers’ careers. COFUND’s mission is to harness EU funding, stimulate excellent research, facilitate synergies with policy priorities, disseminate the highest standards promoted by MSCA, and uphold EU principles in supporting research careers. To reinforce these goals, …
On Tuesday, MEPs re-elected Roberta Metsola (EPP, MT) as President of the European Parliament until 2027, with 562 votes in the first round. Roberta Metsola won the election in the first round of voting, where she received an absolute majority of 562 votes cast out of 699 by secret paper ballot, among two candidates. She …
With 401 votes in favour, the European Parliament elected Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission in a secret ballot on 18 July. This will be Ursula von der Leyen’s second term as Commission President. She was first elected by MEPs in July 2019. Parliament is currently composed of 719 MEPs, so …
An EU law has come into force that will enable the setting of ecodesign requirements and information for almost all categories of physical goods that come onto the EU market. The new Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation builds on the existing Ecodesign Directive, which currently only covers energy-related products. It aims to significantly improve the circularity, …
The Commission has selected 134 transport projects to receive over €7 billion in EU grants from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the EU’s instrument for strategic investment in infrastructure. This represents the largest call under the current CEF Transport programme. Around 83% of the funding will support projects that deliver on the EU’s climate objectives, improving and modernising the EU network of railways, …
The EU and the Republic of Serbia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) launching a Strategic Partnership on sustainable raw materials, battery value chains and electric vehicles. The Partnership aims to support the development of new local industries and high-quality jobs along the electric vehicle value chain in full respect of high environmental and social standards while addressing …
How several European initiatives play in different ways into the mission of the higher education interoperability workgroup. Higher education interoperability workgroup The workgroup is developing a framework that will serve European higher education institutions as a practical toolkit to ensure interoperable virtual learning environments, seamless student mobility and data exchange. This framework will be accompanied …
The eArchiving Initiative seeks examples and case studies about the calculation of the carbon footprint of electronic archives, archiving software and tools. The eArchiving Initiative is developing a module on sustainable electronic archiving and carbon footprint calculation as part of its academic curriculum. The Initiative is looking for case studies of archivists calculating the carbon footprint …
The European Commission is looking for best practices and success stories to support the existing MSCA guidelines on the supervision of researchers during their project. The European Commission has published a survey to gather inspirational examples of supervision practice from across the MSCA community. The survey is targeted to researchers and research support personnel who …
The innovation performance of the European Union continues to improve at a steady pace, reaching a 10% increase since 2017 and a growth of 0.5% between 2023 and 2024. According to the 2024 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) published today, most EU Member States have boosted their innovation performance, but the increase varies strongly from one to another. Key …