On Tuesday 17 January 2023, The Princess Royal, visited the testing facility and partners of the new Horizon Europe MAXBlade project. The €10 million project aims to deliver a range of innovations to improve the performance of tidal turbines and reduce costs. It will investigate the full lifecycle of tidal turbine blades, from materials, manufacture …
On 17-19 January 2023, the “Enabling interoperability of multi-vendor HVDC grids” InterOPERA project was officially launched in Lyon, France. The €69 million project will define the future interoperability standards of the multi-terminal high voltage direct current (HVDC) grids in offshore electricity. Europe wants to build around 450 GW of offshore wind by 2050. The EU …
The European Union has granted EUR 1.8 billion through its Innovation Fund to 16 innovative projects that will avoid about 125 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in the first 10 years of operation. The projects cover ground-breaking technologies from green hydrogen and synthetic sustainable aviation fuel, to methanol production from renewable hydrogen. After successfully completing their …
Heating, cooling, lighting, and the energy to power appliances are vital for our health and standard of living. But an estimated 35 million EU households have reported being unable to keep their households warm. Energy poverty happens when individuals or households cannot adequately heat or cool their homes or avail of energy services at an …
The Commission is presenting the first New European Bauhaus (NEB) Progress Report taking stock of the achievements in the initiative’s first two years as well as the first assessment tool for NEB project: the NEB Compass. The New European Bauhaus has created a broad community of organisations and citizens all around Europe working around a common vision combining sustainability, inclusion, …
The European Digital Education Hub is opening a call for participation in an online working group on artificial intelligence in education. Focus on artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence, or AI, refers to technologies programmed to analyse the world around them and take action to achieve specific goals. We might not realise it, but AI already plays …
The European Digital Education Hub is opening a call for participants for an on-site community workshop in Barcelona and an online working group on micro-credentials. The European Digital Education Hub is opening a call for participants for a community workshop taking place in Barcelona on 20 and 21 March 2023 a “squad” (online working group) running from …
A new thematic report and a factsheet shed light on challenges, enabling factors and policy considerations on blended learning and inclusion. Blended learning is a mix of various learning environments and (non-)digital tools, as defined in the 2021 Council Recommendation on this subject. The working group on schools, one of the working groups of the …
This year marks the return of the Digital Education Hackathon (DigiEduHack) for its scaled up and expanded fourth edition. DigiEduHack 2.0 – the consortium After a completed open call for tenders, a consortium led by Cecoforma has been selected to run the next three editions of DigiEduHack in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The consortium will work in close …
Τhe Estonian city of Tallinn officially becαme the European Green Capital for 2023, taking over from the French city of Grenoble. The opening ceremony will take place in the capital of Estonia, in the presence of Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, Tallinn’s mayor Mihhail Kõvart and Grenoble’s mayor Eric Piolle. Tallinn gained …