The team behind Egyptian Vulture New LIFE has tackled threats to the globally endangered Egyptian Vulture’s flyway from the Balkans through the Middle East and into Africa.
The team behind LIFE Biomass C+ has developed a new way of producing sustainable biofuel. Instead of land, they used existing and underused infrastructure and water resources.
We've launched a brand-new campaign to encourage our LIFE projects to promote their work through social media by becoming #LIFEAmplifiers.
If you would like to benefit from Green Assist but you are wondering what the eligibility criteria is and how you can place a request for the advisory service, we invite you to check our webpage explaining all the details from the beneficiary perspective.
As a #LIFEAmplifier, digitally-savvy LIFE projects will spread the word about LIFE's Programme's news, events and press releases while inspiring other LIFE projects to do the same. We will promote your project on LIFE social media channels, helping you reach a wider audience.
DG Climate Action launched a market-testing survey, to consult a wide range of stakeholders on key features of the future Innovation Fund and to establish an appropriate portfolio of support instruments that will best meet the market needs. The survey will remain open until 7 March 2023.
On 8 February 2023, the European Commission organised a workshop for mature research and innovation projects funded under Horizon 2020 to explore the opportunities that the Innovation Fund programme can bring to them.
The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) has launched its online public dashboard bringing together all the programmes that have been entrusted to it by the European Commission. The dashboard will allow everyone to find up to date information about the projects supported in each programme, cross-reference them and extract data for potential re-use.
The 6th edition of the Salon Halieutis took place in Agadir from February 1st to February 5th. It is the largest international event for fisheries, aquaculture and seafood processing in Morocco.
The city of Brussels is organising a support campaign for victims of the earthquake. People can bring warm clothes or blankets to donate at Brussels Expo Hall 11 until next Sunday, 19 February. To see and share other ideas to help the victims of the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria, visit My IntraComm at the link below.
On Saturday 18 February, the House of European History in Brussels invites you to the public opening of its new temporary exhibition ‘Throwaway: The history of a modern crisis’. This showing will look at the hidden history of litter in Europe. If we are what we throw away, what does Europe's waste production tell us about its past, present and future?
Take a few minutes of your time and watch Aneta Willems, Head of Department D 'Natural resources, climate, sustainable blue economy and clean energy', who gives us a short update with all the latest news about CINEA (past and upcoming events, horizontal and HR topics etc.).
The PARIS REINFORCE project has come to an end with an impressive track record of modelling analyses based on integrated assessment models, high-impact scientific publications and the I2AM PARIS platform. The main purpose of the project was to support the design of climate policies, in light of the ever-challenging context and domain of climate change and action.
The EU is committed to promote ocean literacy by granting support to the continuation of the EU4Ocean Coalition. The second phase of EU4Ocean has kicked off at the end of January, following an invitation to tender launched by CINEA in September 2022.
In our series of short interviews - ‘Meet your colleagues’ - this week we met Federico Di Filippi, Project Adviser in Unit D2 ‘LIFE Environment (Nature & Circular Economy)’. Let us know if you would like to be next!
On 26 January, two large underground/underwater bicycle parkings were inaugurated close to the the Amsterdam Central Railway Station. These new parkings can accommodate up to 11,000 bicycles. These large infrastructures will contribute to shifting mobility even more away from polluting means of transport.
The EnFAIT project has been instrumental in supporting and expanding the Shetland Tidal Array, reducing tidal energy costs and increasing its reliability and bankability. The array of three underwater tidal turbines was the first of its kind in 2016. A fourth turbine was added in 2020 and with the recent installation of the 5th and 6th turbines, it becomes the array with the largest number of turbines anywhere in the world.
The LIFE Programme has just launched a brand-new campaign encouraging their projects to promote their work through social media by becoming #LIFEAmplifiers. Today, 59% of the world's population uses social media. On average, people use channels like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for two hours and 29 minutes a day. There is an excellent opportunity for your LIFE project to capitalise on this and become a #LIFEAmplifier!
CINEA has launched its online public dashboard bringing together all the programmes that have been entrusted to it by the Commission. The CINEA public dashboard is an intuitive and interactive platform that allows users to discover the projects funded by the EU and managed/implemented by CINEA. Help us to promote this new tool - spread the word across your networks!
Do you have an interesting output (presentation, note, briefing) of cross-cutting nature that you would like to share with CINEA colleagues working with other programmes? Are you interested in finding information across programmes based on the European Green Deal Objectives? Then visit the CINEA Programme Knowledge Sharing Platform.
