In 2021, 47% of all people aged 16-74 years in the EU saw untrue or doubtful information on news websites or social media during the 3 months prior to the survey. However, only around a quarter (23%) of people verified the truthfulness of the information or content. This information comes from data on ICT usage in households and […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Copernicus Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring
Expected Outcome The expected outcome is the continuation of the set up of the new Copernicus element for the monitoring of anthropogenic CO2 emissions that includes: Scope The areas of R&I, which needs to be addressed to tackle the above expected outcomes: New and innovative methodologies to improve the definition of the correlations between emissions […]
Who are smarter, rocket scientists or brain surgeons?
We use ‘it’s not rocket science’ and ‘it’s not brain surgery’ almost interchangeably to say that we don’t think something is very difficult to do or to understand. Which phrase is more deserving? And more importantly, should rocket scientists or brain surgeons be crowned the winners of the wits? A research team led by University […]
Are you a multilingual lawyer, interested in pursuing an international career?
The EU is looking for highly qualified Irish-language (GA) lawyer-linguists. Recruited officials (grade AD 7) will mainly work at the Court of Justice of the EU, based in Luxembourg. As a lawyer-linguist, you will translate legal texts into the language of the competition from at least two other languages and review such translations. Your will also provide […]
Gender Equality Index 2021: Fragile gains, big losses
The EU scores 68 points out of 100 in the Gender Equality Index, released today by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). This is a microscopic increase of just 0.6 points since last year’s edition. “Europe has made fragile gains in gender equality. But big losses are emerging as a result of the […]
Online sales continue to grow among EU enterprises
In 2020, 22% of EU enterprises had e-commerce sales and 19% reported that their online sales reached at least 1% of their total turnover, a 1 percentage point (pp) increase compared with 2019 and 6 pp up from 13% in 2010. The steady growth in the use of e-commerce sales in many countries was heightened by the coronavirus pandemic and movement […]
The European Environment Agency is seeking to recruit a climate change expert
The European Environment Agency (EEA) is organising an open competition with a view to establishing a reserve list for contract agents to work as experts on climate change. Candidates from a broad range of topic areas related to climate change are encouraged to apply. Job description The EEA seeks talented individuals across different topic areas […]
CO2 the culprit in southern hemisphere temperature drop millions of years ago
Research into ancient climates suggests that a drop in atmospheric CO2 caused cooling temperatures in south-east Australia 41 to 33 million years ago. Our planet is warming and its atmosphere is changing, but what impact will these changes have on its different ecosystems? To find answers, some scientists have been investigating climates from millions of […]
Teacher of English as a Foreign Language in the Foreign Languages Centre
Offer description 1) providing courses of English as a foreign language including: general English, English for academic purposes, English for the needs of the labor market, at B2, B2 +, C1 (level of proficiency according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe); 2) organization of the teaching process. […]