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Romania has accepted the role of Coordinator to lead the implementation of the Common Maritime Agenda for the Black Sea (CMA) in 2023. Building on the success of previous actions, Romania will now set its implementation plan, coordinate and organise regional events and activities. The focus of the Romanian CMA Coordinator for 2023 is environmental protection, blue economy entrepreneurship and blue skills.

The European Commission has been supporting the establishment and implementation of three sea basin strategies in the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Western Mediterranean.

Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Energy Research Centre (IERC) Tyndall/UCC/MaREI, Dr María López Zambrano delves into de most facing challenges of historic building renovation and gives some clues about interesting solutions to be implemented.

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Over 350 delegates took part in the flagship event for Road Transport Research results (RTR) in Brussels from 14 to16 February. Attendees heard first-hand from over 60 Horizon 2020 projects about their most promising results and innovative solutions developed.

As part of the effort to promote a common corporate culture of listening to staff and sharing the same core values, a new CINEAnet page has just been launched gathering past, ongoing and future initiatives that give staff the opportunity to further collaborate, communicate and connect.

The Horizon Standardisation Booster provides support services to ongoing and completed H2020, Horizon Europe and Digital Europe projects in all research areas. This ensures the uptake and wider use of new technologies and inventions, guaranteeing interoperability and compatibility, providing quality and safety levels, and codifying knowledge in clear and specific ways.

The 8th Steering Committee meeting of CINEA took place this Tuesday, 21 February. After adopting several important documents and exchanging on a number of topics, all parent DGs praised the excellent results of the Agency in 2022. Thanks to everyone who made this possible!

The official theme of this years' International Women's Day is #EmbraceEquity, highlighting the difference between equity and equality and getting the world talking about why equal opportunities aren't enough. As every year, corporate events will take place across the Commission to celebrate this day.

In our series of short interviews - ‘Meet your colleagues’ - this week we met Beppe Zammit, Accounting Assistant in the Director’s office. Let us know if you would like to be next!

Every year, our Internal Control Manager (Damiao Chaves) checks if our system of controls is still fit for purpose. Tests are performed on a myriad of aspects including ethics, business continuity, staff engagement, communication… The latest results confirm that CINEA’s system of controls is present and works well. Only a few minor improvements are needed.

The EMFF-funded Algaenauts project to produce biopesticides from microalgae featured in the latest episode of the Euronews Ocean series. These documentaries have Europe-wide coverage and are often picked up by national broadcasters. Don’t miss it!

CINEA Green Team released the fifth interview in the series “The ‘go-greener’ of the month", featuring Vanessa Marinof, Technical/Administrative Assistant at B2. Read Vanessa’s interview to learn how her green journey started and to get tips in case you want to try the “zero waste” challenge in 2023.

The CINEA Cycling Group has recently welcomed its 100th member! This means that 20% of all CINEA colleagues are now part of the group. And also means that our participation in VeloMai looks very promising!

The campaign to celebrate the LIFE programme’s 30th anniversary ended in December 2022. Almost 400 actions were shared on the website by the LIFE projects, with events and activities in 33 different countries - including 26 EU Member States - and an estimated 82 000 people taking part.

Events taking place around the world promoting clean energy and energy efficiency, may apply from March to June 2023 to be part of the Sustainable Energy Days. Past events took place in locations such as schools, parks, town halls, factories... In the context of the European Year of Skills, events upskilling European citizens for a clean energy transition are particularly encouraged.

For those who are not yet familiar with the basic functionalities of the Qlik tool, a 30-minute training will take place on Tuesday, 28 February at 14:00. For more information on the dashboards, check out the reporting section on CINEAnet, and especially the Qliksense catalogue.

Commission en direct had a chat with Thomas Kellermann (Unit A1) and Kristina Lesinska (Director's Office) to find out more about the CINEA public dashboard and the work behind it. The dashboard is an intuitive and interactive platform that allows users to discover EU funded projects managed/implemented by CINEA.

Over the last three decades, almost 400 LIFE projects have helped protect wetlands - an endangered ecosystem across Europe, vital to mitigating climate change's effects.

Energy poverty is a situation in which households are unable to access essential energy services and products. Discover how the LIFE programme is tackling these problems through its LIFE projects.