The European GNSS Agency (GSA) hosted a special event on September 10 to mark the 15th anniversary of its creation. The Agency was set up as the European GNSS Supervisory Authority in 2004 to oversee the development of the European space programmes EGNOS and Galileo. GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides welcomed special guests to the […]
H2020: Support for European eHealth Interoperability roadmap for deployment
This call aims at supporting the management of health and wellbeing while empowering the participation of citizens and facilitating the transformation of health and care services to more digitised, person-centred and community-based care models, thereby enabling better access to healthcare and the sustainability of health and care systems. Secure and interoperable data as an enabler […]
Tenure-eligible lecturer position in Didactics of Language and Literature at the University of Barcelona (UB)
The Serra Húnter Programme (SHP) is offering 110 contracts as tenure-eligible lecturer and 2 as associate professor in different fields of study at the public universities of Catalonia (Spain). Successful candidates will be hired by the university offering the position and are expected to cooperate with existing groups and/or develop new lines of research, complementary to those […]
29 arrests in France and Spain in a migrant smuggling case
Minors who escaped from protection centres were also smuggled by the criminal group. The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) and the French National Police (Police Nationale), supported by Europol, dismantled a large poly-criminal network involved in migrant smuggling, trafficking of human beings and drug trafficking. The organised criminal group targeted also unaccompanied minors in protection […]
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Essentials of Youth Policy
From 7 October to 18 November 2019, the MOOC provides participants with the basic competences to engage in youth policy. A youth policy is a strategy by public authorities, providing young people with opportunities for successful integration in society and enabling them to be active and responsible. Furthermore, participants will learn about the essential elements of youth policy, […]
Humanitarian aid: over €34 million in African Great Lakes region
The European Commission has announced €34.275 million in humanitarian funding to help the most vulnerable people in the Great Lakes region in Africa. The aid will mainly help address urgent humanitarian needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo and provide continued support to Burundian refugees in the region. The bulk of the funding announced supports […]
Head of Fellowship Programme
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), based in Stockholm, Sweden, has started the process of selecting a Director of the Fellowship Programme, who will work closely with the Training Section. Job Description Under the supervision of the Head of Section, lead the implementation of the scientific, structural and administrative reform of the […]
Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions: Satellite broadband internet access for educational multimedia contents to unconnected schools
The general objective of the pilot project is to contribute to assessing the benefits of a broadband connectivity via satellite in areas impacted by digital divide with the support of regional or national public authorities, as a precursor of the even larger benefits that the European Gigabit Society will later make largely available. In […]
State aid: Commission open investigations into individual “excess profit” tax rulings granted by Belgium to 39 multinational companies
The European Commission has opened in-depth investigations to assess whether tax rulings on “excessive profits” handed down by Belgium to 39 multinational companies gave these companies an unfair advantage over their competitors, in breach of EU state aid rules. The decisions to open this investigation follow the annulment by the General Court in February 2019 […]