The European Commission is launching a fourth call for proposals in the field of data-driven news production. Applicants are invited to submit proposals to increase reporting on European issues from pan-European viewpoints and/or by comparing different viewpoints from within Europe, using data-driven techniques. Data-driven techniques can increase reporting on European topics (i.e. the range of […]
Commission publishes 2021 Annual Burden Survey
The European Commission has published the 2021 Annual Burden Survey, which presents concrete examples of simplification of EU rules in areas such as agriculture and rural development, competition, communications, health and food safety, transport and mobility, and the single market. The 2021 Annual Burden Survey outlines the overarching efforts made by the Commission to simplify […]
Joint Procurement contract HIPRA for Covid-19
HERA, the European Commission’s Health Preparedness and Response Authority, has signed a joint procurement Framework Contract with the company HIPRA HUMAN HEALTH for the supply of their protein COVID-19 vaccine. 14 Member States and countries are participating in this joint procurement, under which they can purchase up to 250 million doses. As the number of cases is […]
Technologist Position in Mass Spectrometry in Austria
Offer Description They are seeking an enthusiastic and energetic candidate for a Technical Assistant in Mass Spectrometry position to join our dynamic Proteomics Team at the Molecular Discovery Platform of CeMM. Interested candidates should have a background in analytical sciences or life sciences. Requirements Degree in analytical sciences or life sciences (B.Sc., M.Sc., Dipl.-Ing.) 2-3 […]
Commission consults citizens on possible EU Soil Health Law
The European Commission has launched an online public consultation on the development of a possible EU Soil Health Law. Soils are the foundation of our food security, providing 95% of the food we eat. Healthy soils are vital for life on Earth. They deliver many essential services, and are crucial to achieve key objectives of the European Green […]
Interview with Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB
Last Thursday 28th July, the Governing Council of the ECB decided to increase the key interest rates by 0.5 percent, which differed from the initial plan to increase rates by 0.25 percent. But has it not come too late? Other major central banks reacted to inflation much earlier. We started the normalisation of our monetary […]
Commission makes second 12 billion payment to Spain under the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism
On Friday 29 July, the Commission has paid Spain the second instalment of €12 billion of non-refundable financial assistance (excluding pre-financing) under the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM). The payments made by the Commission under the RRM are performance-based and depend on Spain’s implementation of the investments and reforms outlined in Spain‘s recovery and resilience […]
CineMart’s call for immersive and feature film projects
The 40th edition of IFFR’s co-production market CineMart will take place during IFFR 2023, from 25 January to 5 February 2023. The IFFR Pro co-production market, the industry section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, provides each year a carefully selected list of projects under development that are presented to international audiovisual industry representatives. Bold […]
Looking at how language became so complex
Using a combination of individual experiments and computational modelling, researchers uncover some big ideas in evolutionary linguistics. When it comes to language, one could say ‘you speak as you learn’. “The fundamental structural features of language are a consequence of how a language is learned,” explains Kenny Smith, a professor at the University of Edinburgh. […]