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Culture Moves Europe: New €21 million mobility scheme for artists and cultural professionals

The European Commission has signed an agreement with Goethe-Institut to implement a new €21 million mobility scheme for artists and cultural professionals: Culture Moves Europe. The new Culture Moves Europe will become a permanent action under the Creative Europe programme and follows the successful I-Portunus pilot project that took place between 2018 and 2022. The […]

Erasmus+: 44 European Universities to cooperate across borders and disciplines

Today, the Commission has announced the results of the 2022 call for the European Universities initiative: with a record budget of €272 million from Erasmus+, 16 existing European Universities will continue to receive support, and four new alliances will be able to start their cooperation. Together with the 24 alliances selected in 2020, a total […]

European Citizen’s Prize. Winners 2022

Communication of the European Parliament concerning the European Citizen’s Prize (Civi Europaeo Praemium). Belgium: My talents for diversity Belgium: The Coordination Centre of Promote Ukraine Croatia: FUND 5.5 Cyprus: OXYGONO (Cyprus Forum & Nomoplatform) Czech Republic: Charita Znojmo’s humanitarian assistance to Ukraine Czech Republic: #HolkyzMarketingu Denmark: Europe Dialogue Estonia: Assisting Ukraine and ‘Ukraina heaks!’ (For […]

Additional €274.9 million to boost the social and economic recovery of Spanish regions #REACT-EU

Spain receives an additional €274.9 million from the 2022 tranche of REACT-EU. These resources will support the economic recovery of Spanish regions, help workers and jobseekers acquire skills necessary for the digital and green transition, and improve the access to and functioning of social systems. €137 million are added to the Spanish operational programme of […]

PEACE PLUS, a cross-border EU programme to strengthen cooperation between Ireland and Northern Ireland | Interreg

The Commission has adopted the PEACE PLUS, a new cross-border EU programme to strengthen peace and reconciliation and cross-border cooperation between Ireland and Northern Ireland. It combines the previous INTERREG and PEACE funding strands into a new programme for the 2021-2027 EU period. The Commission will invest €235 million from the European Territorial Cooperation allocation […]

Innovation Fund: EU invests €1.8 billion in clean tech projects

Today, the EU is investing over €1.8 billion in 17 large-scale innovative clean-tech projects with a third round of awards under the Innovation Fund. Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring breakthrough technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key […]

New Research and Innovation Performance report

The Commission has released the 2022 edition of the Science, Research and Innovation Performance (SRIP) report, analysing the EU's innovation performance in a global context. It provides insights into how research and innovation policies can help build an inclusive, sustainable, competitive and resilient Europe by leveraging the essential role of research and innovation as a source […]

New European Innovation Agenda to spearhead the new innovation wave

Today, the Commission adopted a New European Innovation Agenda to position Europe at the forefront of the new wave of deep tech innovation and start-ups. It will help Europe to develop new technologies to address the most pressing societal challenges, and to bring them on the market. The New European Innovation Agenda is designed to position Europe […]

European Commission endorses Spain's second payment under the Recovery and Resilience Facility

The European Commission has today endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Spain's second payment request for €12 billion in grants under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), the key instrument at the heart of NextGenerationEU. On 30 April 2022, Spain submitted to the Commission a payment request based on the achievement of the 40 milestones […]

Increased support for EU farmers through rural development funds

Today, the European Commission proposed an exceptional measure funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) to allow Member States to pay a one-off lump sum to farmers and agri-food businesses affected by significant increases in input costs. Such increases in prices, notably for energy, fertiliser and animal feed, are disrupting the agricultural sector and rural communities, […]

Partnerships for Regional Innovation: 63 regions, seven cities and four Member States selected for Pilot Action

Today, the Commission announced the 63 regions, seven cities and four Member States selected in the pilot project for Partnerships for Regional Innovation, an initiative developed together with the Committee of the Regions. Participants in the pilot action are open to share good practices and to co-develop and test tools to mobilise multiple sources of funding […]

First Member States pledge around €270 million to implement ALMA initiative

The first Member States have expressed their commitment to implement the Commission's new initiative ALMA (‘Aim, Learn, Master, Achieve') to support disadvantaged young people on their way into the job market or further education. At an event on youth employment organised by the Commission last week, it announced that so far more than half of Member States […]
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