Early childhood education and care (ECEC) – the phase before primary education – is increasingly acknowledged as providing the foundations for lifelong learning and development. This second edition of Key Data on Early Childhood Education and Care in Europe charts the progress made in the key quality areas identified in the Council Recommendation on High Quality ECEC Systems. The Commission´s Intention […]
ESC Volunteering Teams in high priority areas
European Solidarity Corps Volunteering Teams in high priority areas are large-scale projects supporting volunteering teams activities with the aim to carry out short-term high-impact interventions that address societal challenges in policy areas defined at EU level. The European Solidarity Corps aims to promote solidarity as a value, mainly through volunteering, to enhance the engagement of young […]
Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions: Emerging Game-changers
This call (PADR-FDDT-EMERGING-03-2019), which is aimed at developing technologies to anticipate possible disturbances in the field of defence, belongs to Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions. Scope Proposals are sought for cutting-edge high-risk/high-reward research projects that aim to demonstrate a new technological paradigm within the scope of one or more of the following sub-topics. Applicants can […]
European Commission Joint Research Centre opens world-class laboratories to researchers
Researchers from across Europe will now have even more opportunities to use the Joint Research Centre’s state-of-the-art facilities: after a first round of the open access initiative, in which nearly 100 eligible proposals were received from 92 research institutions, further laboratories of the Commission’s in-house science and knowledge service are now available to external scientists. […]
H2020: SESAR 2020: Meteorology at Airports
This call (SESAR-ER4-14-2019) whics aims to improve airport capacity and resilience and ensuring safety and security levels, falls under the H2020-JTI-SESAR-2019 sub-programme of the Horizon 2020 Programme. Weather has a significant impact on airport operations: snow, sleet, and freezing rain, which along with strong winds, low clouds, and reduced visibility may create dangerous conditions at or […]
Financial services: Commission sets out its equivalence policy with non-EU countries
The European Commission is today taking stock of its overall approach to equivalence in the area of financial services. EU equivalence has become a significant tool in recent years, fostering integration of global financial markets and cooperation with third-country authorities. The EU assesses the overall policy context and to what extent the regulatory regimes of […]
Political scandals and feminism in 2019 LUX Film Prize
Título: Political scandals and feminism in 2019 LUX Film Prize Autor: Parlamento Europeo Duración: 01:54 Resumen: Las películas’Cold Case Hammarskjöld’,’The Realm’ y’God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya’ han sido seleccionadas como las tres finalistas del Premio Lux de Cine del Parlamento Europeo. Las películas de este año abordan la corrupción política, una investigación sobre un caso de asesinato […]
PhD position: multi and hyperspectral PRISMA remote sensing data for retrieving crop biophysical variables and topsoil properties in agricultural fields
A fully funder 3-year PhD position jointly supported by the University of Tuscia (DAFNE Department) in Viterbo (Central Italy) and the Italian National Research Council (CNR) Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) in Rome is offered. The goal of the research that will be carried out by the candidate is the use of models for […]
Drought in Europe: the Commission offers further support to European farmers
The European Commission is offering support to farmers faced with the waves of drought afflicting Europe. Firstly, farmers will be able to receive a higher percentage of their direct and rural development payments in advance. Secondly, to be able to feed their animals, they will be granted greater flexibility to use land that would normally […]