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Measures to widen participation in Horizon 2020

European Court of Auditors. Special report 15/2022. Measures to widen participation in Horizon 2020 were well designed but sustainable change will mostly depend on efforts by national authorities (OJ C 236/06, 20.6.2022) To tackle the innovation divide, Horizon 2020 introduced specific widening measures to support Member States lagging behind in research and innovation. We assessed […]
EESC Civil Society Prize

EESC Civil Society Prize 2022

EESC Civil Society Prize 2022. Rewarding excellence in civil society initiatives. Empowering Young People - European Civil Society for Ukraine. The 2022 prize will reward effective, innovative and creative initiatives which aim to create a better future for European youth and with European youth by tackling the specific needs of young people and contributing to […]

2023 Access City Award for most accessible cities in the EU

Applications for the Access City Award competition are open. The Award recognises cities which have made significant efforts to become more accessible for persons with disabilities and have plans for further improvement. The winning city will receive a financial prize of €150,000, the second and third place winners will receive €120,000 and €80,000 respectively. The […]

Interactive webpage on the Cohesión Policy projects (2021-2027)

Commission launched a new interactive webpage on the €392 billion budget allocation for Cohesion policy 2021-2027. Following the entry into force of the Cohesion policy legislative package on 1 July, the Commission has now launched a new webpage with the detailed breakdown of the €392 billion Cohesion policy funding for the 2021-2027 programming period. The […]

SeBI Project (Securing the Best Interest of the Child) | Erasmus+

SEBI is the acronym of the project “Securing the Best Interest of the Child in Educational School Administration”. The project aims to identify the key challenges that educational systems face in areas were the determination of the Best Interest of the Child (BIC) is a prerequisite, and prepare methods, tools and processes to support evidence-based policy making […]
Panodyssey

Panodyssey, the European social network dedicated to creative writing

Panodyssey is a collaborative platform for discovering, writing and reading quality content without ads and without algorithms. It works in part as a social network for fiction and non-fiction editorial content creators, for both professional and amateur authors. It brings together a community of readers and authors around strong values ​​by reconciling ethics and digital. […]

Support for information measures relating to the EU Cohesion policy

The Information Measures for the EU Cohesion Policy Programme supports the Cohesion Policy by funding measures that provide information about it. It thus enables a more informed debate about future priorities for the EU and on the way how the funding should be used and with what results. CALLS FOR PROPOSALS Information measures for the […]

Interregional Innovation Investments (I3)

The Interregional innovation investments initiative as part of the European Regional and Development Fund (ERDF) aims at supporting interregional innovation projects in their commercialisation and scale-up phases giving them the tools to overcome regulatory and other barriers and bring their project to investment level. CALLS FOR PROPOSALS Calls are published regularly on the Funding & Tender […]

Innovative Medicines Innitiative (IMI)

The Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (IMI Joint Undertaking) supports collaborative research to improve the entire development process and make it more efficient, accelerating patients' access to better and safer medicines. Its function is none other than to promote the development of medicines, facilitating open collaboration in research. CALLS FOR PROPOSALS Calls are published regularly […]

Active and Assisted Living Research and Development Programme

The Active and Assisted Living Research and Development Programme (AAL) aims to improve the quality of life of the elderly through the development and use of sustainable innovative solutions based on information and communication technologies that truly respond to their needs with a multidisciplinary point of view. CALLS FOR PROPOSALS Calls are published regularly on […]

REACT-EU

REACT-EU (Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Territories of Europe) will be one of the largest programmes under new instrument Next Generation EU amounting to €50.6 billion. LEGAL BASIS Regulation 2020/2221 of 23 December 2020 amending Regulation 1303/2013 as regards additional resources and implementing arrangements to provide assistance for fostering crisis repair in the context […]

ERDF support for SME competitiveness

European Court of Auditors. Special report 08/2022: ERDF support for SME competitiveness - Design weaknesses decrease effectiveness of funding (OJ C 218/04, 2.6.2022)  We assessed whether the European Regional Development Fund helped improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the period 2014-2020. We found that Member States aimed at funding a large […]