President Jean-Claude Juncker spoke to Prime Minister Johnson on the phone on thursday. The Prime Minister informed the President about the contents of the UK’s latest proposal – which includes a legal text, explanatory note and letter from Prime Minister Johnson. President Juncker welcomed Prime Minister Johnson’s determination to advance the talks ahead of the October European Council and […]
Read MoreTraditional beer brewing: hop’s horticultural heritage
With today’s craft beer movement, the origins of beer culture come more and more to the fore. As interest in traditional recipes and forgotten brewing practices rises, ingredients such as hops gain new attention. Hops are one of Europe’s traditional crops, and are responsible for a beer’s distinctive bitterness and aroma. Background Beer was one […]
Read MoreAn unexpected companion
This year 2019 marked five years since ESA’s Rosetta probe arrived at its target, a comet named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (or 67P/C-G). In August, it was four years since the comet, escorted by Rosetta, reached its perihelion – the closest point to the Sun along its orbit. This image, gathered by Rosetta a couple of months after perihelion, when the comet activity was still […]
Read MorePreferences of our users: the most consulted in September 2019
What you can’t miss … We have carried out a selection of the documents, news and calls with more success of our web page in the month of September in both versions, Spanish and English. Choosing is not always an easy task and even more so if there is a great variety. For this reason, […]
Read MorePolicy tool to promote better entrepreneurship now available in 24 languages
A multi-lingual tool is now available to help cities, regions and countries to make entrepreneurship policies more inclusive and more social. It covers policies supporting entrepreneurship by people from under-represented groups, as well as social entrepreneurship. The better entrepreneurship policy tool was launched by the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and […]
Read MoreThe new R+I Bulletin No. 8 is now available!
The new R+I Newsletter (No. 8) is now available! This bulletin summarises all the European Union’s activity in the field of R+I in recent months. The bulletin is structured into News; Calls and Awards; Statistics; Documentation; and finally Magazines and Media Collection. In this September edition, we can highlight news such as Project VicInAqua: […]
Read MoreNew Africa-Caribbean-Pacific/European Union Partnership
Meeting in New York held in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. The chief negotiators Commissioner Mimica and Togolese Minister Robert Dussey further specified the economic framework of future relations between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries with the European Union after 2020. Robert Dussey, Togo’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Africa Integration, the ACP’s Chief […]
Read MoreNantes is European Capital of Innovation 2019
The city of Nantes in north-west France is the European Capital of Innovation 2019, the Commission announced today at the European Research and Innovation Days. The title was awarded to Nantes in recognition for its outstanding ability to harness innovation to improve the lives of its citizens and its open and collaborative governance model. It comes with […]
Read MoreA mobile app that saves lives: remote symptom monitoring for cancer patients
The eSMART consortium extends a hand to people undergoing chemotherapy. To patients previously left to their own devices in coping with side effects once back home, they propose a mobile-based monitoring system allowing for faster clinician intervention. It is often one of the first questions coming to patients’ minds as they face the prospect of […]
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