Month: February 2020

2020 Call for Proposals of the Partnership for sustainable cities

The European Commission has recently published the Call for Proposals of the Partnership for sustainable cities (EuropeAid/167744/DH/ACT/Multi). The deadline for the submission of concept notes is 27/03/2020 at 12:00 (Brussels time). Powered by WPeMatico

European Commission fostering collaboration among EER regions

The European Commission is currently implementing a project ‘Fostering collaboration through mapping, analysing and interlinking of European Entrepreneurial Regions’. The project was launched in 2019 to strengthen the impact of existing start-up and scale-up support actions by building on the EER initiative’s experience. It fosters the development and implementation of

Events – Workshop on transformative change in the global post-2020 Biodiversity Framework – 18 March 2020, Brussels, Belgium

Transformative change should help achieving the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and other multilateral agreements. Purpose of this workshop to discuss how the concept of Transformative Change can be translated into concrete actions, goals, targets and pathways for the global post-2020

Press Centre – Horizon Impact Award 2020 contest open: apply by 2 April 2020

The European Commission is launching the 2020 edition of Horizon Impact Award – a prize dedicated to EU-funded projects whose results have created societal impact across Europe and beyond. The prize acknowledges and rewards the most influential and impactful project results under Horizon 2020 and FP7. Powered by WPeMatico

Events – Developing a new value chain from wood to bio-based products. Challenges and lessons learned – 21 April 2020, Brussels, Belgium

The Exilva project is Borregaard’s set-up and running of the first industrial scale plant for producing Microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) in addition to develop advance market segments for the use of this product. It is funded under the BBI JU program of EUs Horizon 2020 effort. The main goal for the

Consultation on Air Quality – Executive Summary

​The Secretariat of the Commission for Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE) of the CoR is in the process of informing other EU institutional and non institutional actors about the Implementation Report of the consultation on Air Quality. Powered by WPeMatico

Tipperary councillor to lead Irish delegation in EU assembly

Michael Murphy of Tipperary County Council will lead the national delegation of Ireland to the European Committee of the Regions, whose members met on 11-13 February for the first time in their new five-year mandate. He will also lead its economic-policy commission. Powered by WPeMatico

Funding cuts acceptable only for systemic breaches of rule of law

Local and regional leaders from across the European Union have thrown their support behind proposals from the European Commission and the European Parliament designed to strengthen the rule of law, including the possibility of sanctioning states for “serious and systemic” breaches. The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) also urged

Local leaders: Conference on the Future of Europe is an opportunity for citizens to change the European Union

During a debate with Dubravka Šuica, the European Commission’s Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, members of the European Committee of the Regions called for a genuine open, inclusive and democratic consultation that reaches out to all citizens in all regions and cities. Powered by WPeMatico