The Technology and Innovation Working Group of the EU-U.S. Energy Council held a virtual meeting on 16 March 2023. This was co-chaired by Maria Cristina Russo Director for Global Approach and International Cooperation in Research & Innovation, of the European Commission and Joshua Volz Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, Eurasia, Africa, and Middle East, Office …
March 2023 marks two years of Open Research Europe – the open access, peer-review publishing venue launched by the European Commission to support Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, Euratom, and COST action-funded researchers. Open Research Europe is already indexed in 10 major databases (including Scopus and PubMed Central) – quite an achievement within just two years. Open Research Europe supports researchers across all disciplines, at every stage of their …
Postdoctoral Fellowships applicants holding an MSCA Seal of Excellence certificate can now apply for alternative funding in these five countries. Five schemes are offering grants for MSCA Seal of Excellence holders who applied for Postdoctoral Fellowships under Horizon Europe or MSCA Individual Fellowships under Horizon 2020 to carry out research in Italy Cyprus Poland Czechia …
The prize will be awarded to organisations and companies that are developing technology to deliver better quality humanitarian assistance to vulnerable people affected by crises and natural hazards. The Commission launched the first edition of the European Prize for Humanitarian Innovation (InnovAid) at the European Humanitarian Forum, on 21 March 2023. The European Prize for Humanitarian …
Re-routing shipping lanes is one way to reduce the effects of underwater noise on the marine environment. However, large-scale diversions of this kind happen only rarely and until now ocean scientists have not been able to study how they might affect noise levels or marine life. When Denmark and Sweden decided to re-route the major …
Re-routing shipping lanes is one way to reduce the effects of underwater noise on the marine environment. However, large-scale diversions of this kind happen only rarely and until now ocean scientists have not been able to study how they might affect noise levels or marine life. When Denmark and Sweden decided to re-route the major …
Today, renewable energy trade associations and representatives of installers of clean technologies, with the support of the European Commission, have set up a large-scale skills partnership for the renewable energy industrial ecosystem. They aim to empower workers with the skills needed for the manufacturing and management of renewable energy technologies to achieve the EU’s energy …
The European Commission has awarded 73 Seal of Excellence certificates to high-quality and promising proposals submitted under the 2021 LIFE Call for Standard Action Projects. The proposals could not secure funding due to budgetary constraints under this specific Call, but they received high assessment scores in the demanding and independent evaluation process. With this quality …
The European Investment Bank (EIB) – one of the world’s biggest public lenders for water -attended the UN Water Conference to join the call for more investment in water to tackle the global development and climate challenges. The EIB, owned by the 27 European Union countries, was represented by experts from its water and global …
The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council that increases the maritime transport sector’s contribution to reaching the EU-wide target of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, and to achieving climate neutrality in 2050. Co-legislators agreed on FuelEU Maritime – a new EU regulation ensuring that …