The European Youth Forum is launching the ‘European Youth Capital’ (EYC) 2023. This title is assigned to a European city for a period of one year during to empower young people, boost youth participation and strengthen European identity. Each year, a new European city is given the chance to showcase its innovative ideas, projects and activities that […]
Shoshana Zuboff winner of the Axel Springer Award
It is now more than three decades since Shoshana Zuboff published her book, The Age of the Smart Machine. It predicted many of the challenges, trends and ways in which technology has influenced our lives and careers. It was – like many of Shoshana Zuboff’s works – ahead of its time. Of course, the world around us and the technology we […]
VAT: Council reaches provisional agreement on simplified rules for small businesses
The Council today reached a general approach on further simplification of the VAT rules applicable to small businesses. The purpose of the new rules is to reduce administrative burden and compliance costs for small enterprises and to help create a fiscal environment which will help small enterprises grow and trade cross-border more efficiently. Businesses have […]
H2020. Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing: Upcycling Bio Plastics of food and drinks packaging
Upcycling in this context means transforming them into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value, ensuring that micro-plastics are avoided. This will allow the sustainable recycling or biological degradation in accordance with existing and novel technologies, standards and certification schemes. Challenge The challenge is to develop technologies to deal with […]
«NUESTROS SOLDADOS» #5
Título: “NUESTROS SOLDADOS” #5 con el coronel José Luis Calvo. La industria de Defensa y su I+D. Autor: masQUEUNAradio Duración: 31:56 Resumen: Un lunes más, vuelve nuestro programa “Nuestros Soldados” que, en este caso, presenta el coronel José Luis Calvo. En este programa, habla sobre la industria de defensa y su I+D con el general […]
«NUESTROS SOLDADOS» #4
Título: “NUESTROS SOLDADOS” #4 con el coronel Ángel Gómez de Ágreda. Ciberdefensa: Charla con el capitán de navío Cubeiro. Autor: masQUEUNAradio Duración: 32:17 Resumen: Un lunes más, vuelve nuestro programa “Nuestros Soldados” que dirige y presenta el coronel Ángel Gómez de Ágreda. En este programa, habló sobre #ciberdefensa con el capitán de navío Enrique Cubeiro Cabello. Fecha de Publicación: 21-10-2019 https://www.cde.ual.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Programa-4.mp3
Strengthening cooperation to fight intellectual property crimes
Counterfeit goods are a significant problem that hits the EU particularly hard, accounting for about 5 % of imports. Organised criminal groups are often behind intellectual property crime and thus benefit financially from it. Fighting intellectual property crime is key to sustaining jobs and growth in the European economy, and to safeguarding consumers against dangerous and substandard […]
danceWEB – European Scholarship Programme for Contemporary Dance
The Scholarship Programme offers around 65 young professional dancers and choreographers from mainly European but also from non-European countries the possibility to take part in an intense multinational further training programme. Programme The Programme is a 5-week residency taking place every year in July – August in Vienna within the frame of ImPulsTanz festival. The programme focuses […]
Genocide Network meeting held at Eurojust
Prosecutors discuss combining of charges to get higher sentences for terrorists Suspects of terrorist activities can receive higher sentences if charges of terrorism are combined with acts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide or other offences. To prosecute for all acts committed and achieve an accumulation of charges at national level, better cooperation and […]