Network of towns is aimed at providing funding to municipalities and associations working together on a common theme in a long term perspective, and wishing to develop networks of towns to make their cooperation more sustainable. The measure Network of towns is the second Measure of the Strand 2. Democratic engagement and civic participation within […]
EAC/S23/2019 Call: Exchanges and mobility in sport
This call for proposals under the European Commission’s ‘Programme to support fair play and cooperation in sport’ is aimed at implementing exchanges and mobility in sport. Sport is a powerful tool, bringing people together at international, national, regional and local levels, and developing people-to-people contacts. Cooperation, partnerships and exchanges at grassroots level – inside the […]
Dual Food Quality: Commission releases study assessing differences in the composition of EU food products
Recently, the Commission published the results of a pan-European testing campaign of food products showing that some products are identically or similarly branded while having a different composition. Since his State of the Union Address in 2017, President Jean-Claude Juncker has been committed to addressing the issue of dual quality of products. The European Commission […]
Erasmus+ Mobility project for higher education staff
Organisations active in the fields of education, training and youth receive support from the Erasmus+ Programme to carry out projects promoting different types of mobility. The Mobility project for higher education staff includes the following activities: 1. Staff mobility for teaching: allows higher education institution (HEI) teaching staff or staff from enterprises to teach at a partner […]
Bogliasco Fellowships Programme
Fellowships are awarded, without regard to nationality, to qualified persons doing bot advanced creative and scholarly work in the following disciplines: archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film/video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theatre, visual arts without regard to nationality, age, race, or gender. In the Arts, the study centre welcomes persons doing both creative and scholarly work […]
Adoption of new rules to better protect children caught in cross-border parental disputes
The EU makes it easier and faster for decisions on divorce, legal separation and marriage annulment, as well as on parental responsibility issues and international child abduction to be applied across borders. The Council recently adopted a revision of the so-called Brussels IIa regulation which sets out rules on the jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of […]
First 17 “European Universities” selected: a major step towards building a European Education Area
The European Commission has today announced the higher education institutions from all over Europe that will be part of the first “European Universities” alliances. They will enhance the quality and attractiveness of European higher education and boost cooperation between institutions, their students and staff. Out of 54 applications received, 17 European Universities involving 114 higher education institutions from […]
European Development Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP): New drugs and vaccines for priority pathogens in antimicrobial resistance 2019
This call focuses on the development or improvement of medicines and vaccines for priority antimicrobial resistance pathogens (RIA2019AMR) needed in the fight against diseases and epidemics and it is part of the European Development Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). Background Antimicrobials are designed to kill or stop the growth of disease-causing pathogens, but many of […]
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