The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published on 30 September 2019 an Opinion on Sustainability and Solvency II. The Opinion addresses the integration of climate-related risks in Solvency II Pillar I requirements. While Solvency II – as a risk-based, forward-looking and market-consistent framework – is well equipped to accommodate sustainability risks and factors, […]
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Big data for small farms enhance resource use and profitability
Feeding the world’s growing population under increasingly extreme environmental conditions is challenging farmers globally. The hand that feeds us needs a helping hand, so EU-funded researchers developed an affordable farm-management platform. Copernicus and Apollo, came together under the auspices of the EU-funded APOLLO project to expand the implementation of precision agriculture. With a focus on […]
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Visual identities: vintage newspaper mastheads from across Europe
Mastheads are one of the most striking features of newspapers. Often the first thing we see, they are designed to catch our attention and communicate the newspaper’s identity and attract readers. Within the thousands of digitised historic newspaper titles in Europeana Newspapers, there’s a lot of variety in their mastheads – from simple text to more […]
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Statement by the European Commission following President Jean-Claude Juncker’s phone call with Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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 […]
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Traditional 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 […]
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An 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 […]
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Preferences 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, […]
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Policy 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 […]
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The 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: […]
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