Three years after its establishment and eight months after gaining its autonomy, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking inaugurates its headquarters in Luxembourg.
CINEA has just signed grant agreements with 21 projects amounting to €123.481 million for several energy topics under the 2018-2020 Horizon 2020 Work Programme for the H2020 Energy call on Low Carbon Energy and the Cross Cutting call on Low Carbon and Circular Industries: H2020-LC-SC3-2020-NZE-RES-CC / H2020-LCCI-INEA-SingleStage.
Eurostat estimates that in 2020, the year when COVID-19 containment measures were widely introduced by the EU Member States, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel combustion (mainly oil and oil products, coal, peat and natural gas) significantly decreased by 10% in the EU compared with the previous year.
The European Parliament has officially approved the deal with EU Member States on the new LIFE programme which will run from 2021 to 2027.
On May 4, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, launched the Commission Expert Group on quality investment in education and training.