• Posted 08-Nov-2019

Digital skills, your future: Call for action

During the Web Summit 2019 in Lisbon, the European Commission launched a Call for action inviting companies, organisations, schools and institutions to recognise the need to bridge the digital skills gap in Europe.


  • Posted 08-Nov-2019

Commission holds first meeting of the European Universities in Brussels

On 7 November, the higher education institutions forming the initial European Universities came together for the first time to explore the benefits and opportunities created by this new initiative.


  • Posted 08-Nov-2019

2,500 scientists urge EU to reform environmentally ‘damaging’ CAP

More than 2,500 scientists across the EU have joined forces and reached out to the EU parliament in a letter urging them to “to act on the science, and undertake a far-reaching reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) without delay.”


  • Posted 06-Nov-2019

Horizon 2020 Work Programme to kick-start a large-scale research initiative on future battery technologies

The updated Horizon 2020 Work Programme provides €47 million to kick-start the large-scale research initiative on future battery technologies previously announced in the Commission Strategic Action Plan for Batteries.


  • Posted 04-Nov-2019

Commission's report on eGovernment shows narrower gap between leading and lower-performing European countries

On 18th of October the Commission published the eGovernment benchmark report, which assesses the use of information and communications technologies in public administrations, as well as the levels of cross-border interoperability and digital interaction between administrations and citizens or businesses in the EU Member States and 8 non-EU countries.