Good news from around Europe
By conducting field-work and re-examining museum collections, the EU-funded ARCHOSAUR RISE project has shed new light on how archosaurs and such relatives as the dinosaurs diversified and rose to dominance. Powered by WPeMatico
The Forward-Looking Cooperation Action under Erasmus+ Programme has been launched in 2014 with the aim to finance projects aiming at identifying, testing, developing or assessing innovative policy approaches that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed and improving education and training systems. They should be led and implemented by high profile
The eForm for the Erasmus+ Capacity building in Higher Education action(Call for Proposals 2019 – EAC/03/2018) is now published Powered by WPeMatico
The European Commission has taken concrete initiatives to put the 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights into practice at European level. Powered by WPeMatico
Commission – Statement European Brussels, 6 December 2018 At the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council today, Member States reached a general approach on both the European Labour Authority and the third revision of the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive. Powered by WPeMatico
Organic agriculture is boosting crop revenues and restoring soils across some of the driest regions in Spain. As part of the LIFE-funded Crops for better soil project, some farmers boosted their profits from €50 a hectare to over €300 in just five years. Powered by WPeMatico
The EU is calling for an urgent global response to the existential threat posed by losses to wildlife and ecosystems. To gain from international efforts, several LIFE projects exhibited at the COP14 UN biodiversity conference in Egypt. Powered by WPeMatico
The exposure this year of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in computer processors has given added urgency to the work of an EU-funded project to protect systems against ‘side-channel’ attacks. Powered by WPeMatico
With EU backing, an international team has developed a unique bespoke – modular yet integrated – solution for reusing wastewater in remote and/or water-stressed communities. The patented technologies are being piloted in locations where water is a precious commodity for agriculture or in the conservation of natural freshwater ecosystems. Powered
As the Earth warms, it releases trapped carbon into the atmosphere. Just how much is likely to be released and the impact it could have on the planet has been the subject of much debate. EU-funded researchers can now offer new insights into likely soil activity in climate-change scenarios. Powered