The Governing Council of the ECB took the following monetary policy decisions: The conditions on the targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO III) have been further eased. Specifically, the Governing Council decided to reduce the interest rate on TLTRO III operations during the period from June 2020 to June 2021 to 50 basis points below the […]
9th May: Europe Day from home
Every May 9, Europe Day celebrates the peace and unity of the continent. The date is the anniversary of the historic Schuman declaration. In a speech delivered in Paris in 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman set out his idea of a new form of political cooperation that would make war between European nations unthinkable […]
Coronavirus: rescEU masks delivered to Spain, Italy and Croatia
Following last week’s delivery to Italy, more batches of FFP2 protective masks has been distributed this weekend to Spain, Italy and Croatia from rescEU – the first-ever common European reserve of medical equipment set up last month to help countries affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Today’s support comes on top of the EU Medical Teams, masks and […]
Social Scientist – Market and Value Chain Development in Bangladesh
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT®, is a not-for-profit agricultural research for development organization with partners in over 100 countries. Research CIMMYT is seeking a dynamic, self-motivated and applied social scientist to join a multi-disciplinary research & development (R&D) team working on several exciting applied projects aimed at […]
LIFE Programme: Environment and Climate Action. Mitigation
The European Union supports environmental and nature conservation projects through the LIFE programme. This call provides financial support for the preparation of a proposal for an Integrated Project in order to implement a specific set of strategic climate plans or strategies: – Climate change mitigation Integrated Projects: national, regional or industry-/sector-specific greenhouse gas mitigation strategy […]
Thanks to COVID-19, it’s time to flatten the curve on climate change
“Whilst COVID-19 has caused severe international health and economic crisis, failure to tackle climate change may threaten human well-being, ecosystems and economies for centuries,” the UN’s World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a conference on the occasion of Earth Day. “We need to flatten both the pandemic and climate change curves.” Combat climate change […]
PhD Student for the Department of Data analysis and mathematical modelling at Ghent University
The BIOSTAT research group of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University has a vacancy for a PhD student to perform research in the field of statistics. Research The candidate will work in one of the topics of the BIOSTAT unit (extreme value theory, spatial statistics and sampling problems). The development of statistical methods […]
Judgment of the CJEU on homophobic discrimination in the workplace
Homophobic statements constitute discrimination in employment and occupation when they are made by a person who has or may be perceived as having a decisive influence on an employer’s recruitment policy. In the judgment in Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI (C-507/18), delivered on 23 April 2020, the Court held that statements made by a […]
Union Civil Protection Mechanism Exercises
This call supports exercise projects aiming to design, plan, prepare, implement, conduct and self-evaluate different civil protection activities including a full-scale exercise in a multi-national scenario as the main event of the project. The scenario can simulate the situation and conditions of all types of disasters calling for the activation of the Mechanism. The overall […]