In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to the representation of women in STEM education fields: natural sciences, mathematics and statistics, information and communication technologies, engineering, manufacturing and construction. Women are largely underrepresented in these fields. In 2021, in the EU, women tertiary education graduates (International Standard Classification of Education – ISCED levels 5-8), in STEM […]
Eurostat: Business start-ups in the European Union increased in 2021
In 2021, the rate of enterprise births in the EU was 10.7% while the preliminary rate of enterprise deaths stood at 8.5%. In most EU countries more companies were created than dissolved. The exceptions to this were Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland, Denmark and Germany where the number of enterprises dissolved surpassed the number of companies created. This information comes […]
Eurostat: Plastic bag use continues to fall in the European Union
In 2021, each person living in the EU consumed on average 77 lightweight plastic carrier bags (LPCBs), which is 11 bags less per person, compared with 2020. Overall, 34.2 billion (bn) lightweight plastic carrier bags were consumed in the EU in 2021 (-4.8 bn bags compared with 2020). This information comes from data on lightweight plastic carrier bags published by Eurostat […]
According to Eurostat, fossil fuels accounted for 70% of the total energy consumed in the EU
The EU continues to largely rely on fossil fuels for its overall energy supply, as illustrated by the ratio of fossil fuels in gross available energy (the total energy demand of a country or region). In 2021, fossil fuels made up 70% of gross available energy in the EU, remaining at the same level as in 2020. This percentage […]
Commission publishes market study on hotels’ distribution practices
The European Commission has published the results of an external market study on the distribution practices of hotels in the EU. The market study was conducted in 2021 and covers the period between 2017 and 2021. It focused on a representative sample of six Member States (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Poland, Spain and Sweden). The study […]
Meet the 2021 Nobel Prize Laureates
We look back at the Nobel Prize winners in 2021. In this 2021 edition, we have six Europeans among the winners: Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann and Italy’s Giorgio Parisi in Physics; Germany’s Benjamin List and Britain’s David W.C. MacMillan in Chemistry; Russia’s Dmitry Muratov who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; and the Netherlands’ Guido […]
Come to the European Researchers’ Night on September 24th!
For the tenth consecutive year and at the same time as in 371 other European cities, we invite you to discover the human side of research through first-hand contact and conversation with the experts themselves. It is the European Researchers’ Night, which will be held this year on September 24 in the eight Andalusian capitals. […]
2021 Rule of Law Report
The European Commission has published the second EU-wide Report on the Rule of Law with a Communication looking at the situation in the EU as a whole and dedicated country chapters on each Member State. The 2021 report looks at the new developments since last September, deepening the assessment of issues identified in the previous report and taking […]
PRIMA Program Call 2021
The 2021 PRIMA program call has been opened, with a budget of 68 million euros, to cover 7 topics to address the objectives of green, fair and resilient recovery of the Mediterranean area. The closing dates for the submission of pre-proposal are all in April and the topics are: Section 1: works as the H2020 […]