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Opinion Regulation European Competitiveness Fund

European Court of Auditors. Opinion for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the European Competitiveness Fund (“the ECF”), including the specific programme for defence research and innovation activities

Skills Guarantee to support workers in transition learning new skills for strategic sectors

Today, the European Commission has launched a new scheme – the Skills Guarantee – to support workers and businesses and tackle labour shortages in strategic and growing sectors. A flagship initiative under the Union of Skills, the Skills Guarantee will reinforce strategic sectors in line with the future European Competitiveness Fund. Ιt will enable workers […]

Commission supports 135 new projects to help Member States implement their reform agenda

Today, the Commission has approved a new round of 135 projects under the Technical Support Instrument (‘TSI'), to support Member States to prepare, design and implement a total of 390 reforms in 2025. The selected projects will help the Member States address reforms in key priority areas to strengthen the Union's resilience and competitiveness and […]

The future of European Territorial Cooperation post-2027

Opinion of the European Committee of the Regions. The future of European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) post-2027

Independent experts call for increased investment to strengthen Europe's research and innovation leadership

More excellent research, impactful innovation and technology scale-ups are needed to make Europe more globally competitive, secure and sustainable. These are among the twelve expert recommendations presented today to the Commission to strengthen Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme, and its successor. The recommendations have been drafted by an independent group of 15 […]

Competitiveness of clean energy technologies

Progress on competitiveness of clean energy technologies

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. […]

Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs 2019

 Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs 2019 Monitoring Report (COSME 2014-2020)

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 […]