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European Capital of Culture 2017: Évora

Commission Communication European Capital of Culture. The European Capital of Culture 2027 in Portugal is Évora

Development of new emergency shelter reserves with €116 million #rescEU

To further strengthen emergency response, the EU is developing its own shelter reserves that can be deployed in the context of crises or disasters that overwhelm national response capacities. The EU is today allocating €116.6 million to Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Türkiye to procure and host new rescEU shelter reserves able to accommodate […]

State aid: Commission updates guidance for measures to support the green transition

The European Commission has published today updated State aid guiding templates to assist Member States in designing measures, which will be included in their national Recovery and Resilience Plans (‘RRPs'), in line with EU State aid rules. In particular, the updated technical documents will help Member States design measures that further contribute to the implementation […]

New international Erasmus+ project to combat antisemitism through education

Today marks the launch of a new two-year project to address antisemitism in Europe through education. The project will be financed by the Erasmus+ programme and implemented by UNESCO in partnership with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). Following the project's launch, UNESCO and its partners will work through tailored activities […]

30th anniversary of the Cohesion Fund

In the last 30 years, the Cohesion Fund has invested nearly €179 billion in the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the EU. Created in the Maastricht Treaty as a necessary complement to the Single Market in the Cohesion Policy toolkit, the Cohesion Fund was given the mission to support investments in transport infrastructure and […]

Disbursements under Recovery and Resilience Facility pass €150 billion mark

Following today's payment of €6 billion to Spain, the Commission has now disbursed over €150 billion to Member States under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). This is an important milestone in the implementation of the RRF, the key instrument at the heart of the €800 billion NextGenerationEU recovery plan for Europe. In just over […]

Innovation Fund: €100 million offered for innovative small-scale clean tech projects

Today, the European Commission is launching the third call for small-scale projects under the Innovation Fund, one of the world's largest funding programmes for the deployment of innovative low-carbon technologies. Financed by revenues from the auctioning of emission allowances from the EU's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), this call for small-scale projects will further boost […]

European Defence Fund: €1.2 billion to boost EU defence capabilities and innovation

Today, the Commission adopted the third annual Work Programme under the European Defence Fund (EDF), allocating €1.2 billion to defence collaborative research and development projects. With this new Work Programme, the Commission unlocks new funding for defence projects to jointly develop strategic defence capabilities and technologies. It also introduces a series of new measures to […]

Commission publishes the Regional Competitiveness Index 2022

Today the Commission has published the Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI), a fully revised version of a now long-established tool that measures different competitiveness dimensions for all EU regions. The fully revised RCI 2.0 shows that there are still large differences between EU regions, but also that the less developed regions have been improving their competitiveness. […]

Commission supports 151 reform projects in Member States to strengthen resilience and competitiveness

The Commission has approved a new round of 151 projects under the Technical Support Instrument (TSI), to support all Member States in preparing, designing and implementing up to 326 cutting-edge reforms in 2023. The supported projects respond to a reform need expressed by Member States while being strongly aligned with the European Union's priorities for […]

€1.2 million from European Globalisation Adjustment Fund to support 300 dismissed workers in Spain

Today, the European Commission proposed to support 303 workers dismissed by aluminium producer Alu Ibérica in the region of Galicia in Spain with €1.2 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF). The funding will help them find new jobs through tailored guidance and advice, vocational training and job-matching. Spain applied for […]

Erasmus+ 2023 Annual Work Programme

Today, the Commission has adopted a revision of the Erasmus+ Annual Work Programme for 2023. The overall budget of the programme for this year has been revised upwards to a new total of €4.43 billion, the highest annual financial envelope ever reached by the Erasmus+ programme. The increased budget will overall reinforce the Erasmus+ priorities […]
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