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Gender Equality Index 2024 Uploaded On: 26/02/2025

The latest edition of the Gender Equality Index, the 2024 edition, highlights the fact that the EU is battling a host of emerging challenges, from increasing effects of climate change and extreme weather events to high geopolitical tensions, rapid digitalisation, volatile political situations and growing political extremism across the region.  While such phenomena claim the attention of decision-makers, they not only occur against the backdrop of long-standing gender equality issues such as...

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WHO Launched the European Health Report 2024 Uploaded On: 26/02/2025

On 25 February, during a live webinar hosted in UN City, Copenhagen, WHO/Europe unveiled its European Health Report 2024. Produced every 3 years as a flagship WHO/Europe publication, the reports provide an overview of the health status of the population of the WHO European Region and analyse the Region’s progress towards its health policy goals and targets to identify priority areas for action and further improvement. This edition is based on indicators included in the European Programme of ...

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EU Organic Awards 2025 Uploaded On: 21/02/2025

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) announces that applications for the fourth edition of the EU Organic Awards open today, 11 February 2025. The application period runs until 27 April 2025, and interested parties can access the clear and friendly user application form on the EESC's official website starting today.  The EU Organic Awards recognise excellence throughout the organic value chain, rewarding the best and most innovative actors in EU organic production. ...

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She Figures 2024 Uploaded On: 21/02/2025

Equality in research and innovation (R&I) is a core value of the European Union, essential for fostering excellence, diversity, and inclusiveness. The She Figures publication is the European Commission’s flagship report monitoring gender equality in R&I across Europe and beyond. In line with previous editions, She Figures 2024 follows the chronological journey of researchers from higher education into the labour market and on to decision-making and leadership positions. The report...

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Uploaded On: 20/02/2025

New discovery made by an EU-supported project can help unlock the mysteries of violent phenomena in the Universe! The announcement was made yesterday after the discovery was published in Nature Magazine. KM3NET, a giant neutrino telescope sitting at the bottom of the sea, has detected the highest-energy neutrino ever observed. The neutrino travelled at the speed of light directly from the cosmos to the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Sicily, where the detector is located. ...

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Project H2020UNITED - Ocean Multi-use Commercialisation Roadmap Uploaded On: 20/02/2025

Ocean Multi-use can potentially contribute to a more sustainable and efficient use of ocean reasources, and provide tangible economic and environmental benefits.  UNITED will promote ocean multi-use through the installation of real-world demonstration pilots, exploring technical, regulatory, economic, social and environmental requirements and impatcs. Check out their Ocean Multi-use Commerciaisation Roadmap Executive Summary. Visit the below link to learn more on this project and it's ...

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Open Research Europe Uploaded On: 20/02/2025

Open Research Europe is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from European Commission funding across all subject areas. The platform makes it easy for European Commission beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly and facilitate open, constructive research discussion. Open Research Europe operates under a continuous publication schedule. Visit the ...

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EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy Uploaded On: 18/02/2025

Start-ups and scale-ups are crucial for Europe’s competitiveness. They often introduce to the market breakthrough innovative solutions capable of tackling the existing societal challenges. However, they still face barriers affecting their growth, including difficulties in accessing private capital in the EU and selling seamlessly across the single market. This initiative will propose a set of policy, financial and legislative measures to improve and simplify framework conditions for start-ups ...

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European Commission Logo Uploaded On: 17/02/2025

The 2025 call for higher education institutions (HEIs) and universities to participate in the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme encompasses 25 collaborative research topics.  The Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Programme (CDP) is a JRC initiative to establish strategic collaborations with HEIs/universities. The programme facilitates dual PhD projects, where HEIs/universities partner up with the JRC to jointly design, host, and supervise doctoral ...

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Project COREnet: strengthening Short Food Supply Chain across Europe through advisory network and best practices Uploaded On: 11/02/2025

The COREnet project, an Horizon EU funded project coordinated by the University of Foggia, deals with Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs), which contribute to more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable food systems. The project is aimed at enhancing SFSCs development and scalability through the collaborative knowledge sharing among stakeholders. COREnet began in September 2022 and involves 15 partners from across the EU. Despite SFSCs potential, barriers such as institutional challenges and ...

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