Save the Date for the next edition of EU Green Week – the largest annual environmental event in Europe. As part of the European Year of Skills, this year's selection of EU Green Week Partner Events will focus on skills for sustainable, resilient, and socially fair communities. Find out more about organising a partner event on their website.
If you are on social media, do not hesitate to follow the new accounts of our Acting Director. Connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn and like, share and comment her posts promoting CINEA and its main activities. Both accounts were launched at the occasion of the Financing Innovative Clean Tech Conference on 19 January.
Every year on 28 January, EU institutions and Member States of the Council of Europe celebrate Data Protection Day. Read the EDPS factsheet to know more about your digital rights and watch the European Data Protection Supervisor's video to mark Data Protection Week 2023.
In our series of short interviews - ‘Meet your colleagues’ - this week we met Chrysa Ziogou, Project Adviser in Unit C4 ‘Innovation Fund’. Let us know if you would like to be next!
The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) will celebrate a young energy champion and organise a world café with 30 young participants. If you know young people (aged 18-34) who contribute significantly in advancing the clean energy transition through political activism, energy communication, research and innovation, studies or professional activity, please send an e-mail to cinea-eusew@ec.europa.eu.
Ice-core drilling project, BeyondEPICA, arrived at the Little Dome C field camp, located on the Antarctic Plateau at about 40 km from the French/Italian Concordia station. Check out their video in the link below to find out what it takes to set up camp in Antarctica.
The #LIFEis30 podcast series celebrates thirty years of nature protection, environmental and climate action projects under the LIFE Programme. Each episode also features top policymakers offering their expert insights into our planet's major challenges. The seventh - and last episode of the series - has been published recently.
The fourth in the 'Go-greener of the month' series is Marcin Gasiuk (Unit B1), fond of cars and electronics. Martin encourages repairing or buying second-hand, also when it comes to cars. Reusing materials from vehicles or purchasing a used car can play a huge role in reducing waste. Listen to his tips and repair it, don’t replace it!
One of the two measures set out in Council Implementing Decision on measures for the protection of the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary adopted on 16 December 2022 affects direct and indirect management. It prohibits the entering into new legal commitments with Hungarian public interest trusts or any entity maintained by them. Look at our eMoP for more details.
The second edition will take place on 13 February under the ‘Are we already CINEA, instead of INEA - EASME? How to strengthen the Agency’s core values to continue building up our corporate culture?’ topic. Colleagues will have an informal chat with the Agency’s senior management and will be given the opportunity to express their views on building a strong corporate culture.
The project’s main aim is to make future high-voltage direct current systems mutually compatible and interoperable by design, and to improve the grid forming capabilities of both offshore and onshore converters. With EUR 50 million in EU funding, InterOPERA receives one of the highest amount of project funding from the Horizon Europe programme.
This week Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) took centre stage for two full days of key developments, with the launch of the new MSP Assistance Mechanism and Blue Forum, the kick-off of three EU-funded projects on MSP and the establishment of the Community of Practice on MSP for the Mediterranean.
Following the 'Greening the Commission' public communication inviting staff to take initiatives and to lead by example, the Greening groups of the six EAs created a series of 11 internal videos to reduce our daily digital carbon footprint while improving our work efficiency.
This week the Commission launched the updated diversity and inclusion action plan. It complements the new Commission HR strategy and addresses important matters such as the role of managers, diversity in recruitment, accessibility of workplaces and tools and creating an inclusive working environment.
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GREEN ASSIST is the new InvestEU Advisory Initiative focusing on green and sustainable investment. Browse our webpages to know all about it and how it can improve your project/investment!
Heating, cooling, lighting, and the energy to power appliances are vital for our health and standard of living. But an estimated 35 million EU households have reported being unable to keep their households warm.
This monthly newsletter offers information on calls, projects and events from 8 EU programmes in the area of sustainable energy: Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe, LIFE, Innovation Fund, Connecting Europe Facility Energy, the Just Transition Mechanism, the Renewable Energy Financing Mechanism, and the EU Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund.
The European Union has granted EUR 1.8 billion through the Innovation Fund to 16 innovative clean tech projects that will avoid around 125 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in the first ten years of operation.
The #LIFEis30 podcast series celebrates thirty years of nature protection, environmental and climate action projects under the LIFE Programme. The final episode gives a voice to members of the new generation of environmental activists and experts, bringing their ideas and aspirations for a more sustainable and greener future, including Bakwatch representatives that work in the Just Transition Regions.
