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The Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC) invites stakeholders and society for a public consultation on the new draft strategic agenda for research and innovation for 2030 (SIRA2030). The emerging bio-based industries sector, coordinated by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), is cooperating with the European Commission to create a new public-private partnership under Horizon Europe. The objective […]

DG CLIMA and INEA are looking for experienced and motivated experts to evaluate projects applying for funding from the Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the first of a kind demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. The Innovation Fund focuses on: Innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy intensive industries, including products […]

In its new call for project proposals under the LIFE programme, the European Commisison (EC) has earmarked more than €450 million for projects related to nature conservation, environmental protection and climate action. This is part of the EC’s plan in reaching the EU Green Deal‘s climate neutrality objective. The LIFE Programme funds projects under its […]

The Commission has adopted an update of the 2020 Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme to allocate increased funding to its priorities, including urgently needed research and innovation projects into the coronavirus. This decision is part of regular adjustment of the budget and actions of Horizon 2020. The update includes […]

The European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan – one of the main blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth. The new Action Plan announces initiatives along the entire life cycle of products, targeting for example their design, promoting circular economy processes, fostering sustainable consumption, and aiming to ensure that […]

Taking place on 20 – 21 February in Brussels, the BIOEAST high-level conference "BIOEAST as a driving force in the context of the European Green Deal" aimed to deploy sustainable and circular bioeconomies in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of food, agriculture, natural resources and bioeconomy related policies. On the first day, the […]

Taking the momentum of the European Commission launching the new EU growth strategy, the European Green Deal, over 120 project representatives and policymakers gathered at the Workshop “Innovative services and products for the circular economy” organised by EASME in Brussels. This workshop gathered important insights to feed the current policymaking, days before the publication of […]

The European Commission has presented the European Green Deal – a roadmap for making the EU’s economy sustainable by turning climate and environmental challenges into opportunities across all policy areas and making the transition just and inclusive for all. The Green Deal covers all sectors of the economy, notably transport, energy, agriculture, buildings, and industries such […]

The EU Council has gathered to consider the European Green Deal, a large scale re-imagining of how Europe’s economies can collectively create the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050. The goal is a comprehensive makeover of all sectors of the economy in support of the ambition of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and avoiding the worst consequences […]

EU competition and digital commissioner Margrethe Vestager has become the latest to add her voice to calls on member states not to trim back the proposed 2021 – 2027 budget, urging Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria and Sweden to back a bigger EU research programme. Vestager’s plea followed on from a demand by European parliament president […]