To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the LIFE Programme, the #LIFEis30 exhibition showcases powerful images from some of the most innovative, inspirational, and effective LIFE projects. Check it out!
LIFE BioTHOP has won the gold award for the best innovation in Slovenia’s Lower Savinja Valley region and Celje region and bronze at the country’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Innovation Awards.
Fan mussel populations are in danger of extinction due to a severe parasite. And European freshwater pearl mussels have declined by 90% over the past century. Get to know six LIFE projects working to reverse this trend.
In Sweden, LIFE SUNALGAE has inaugurated a pilot facility to mass produce a revolutionary material that improves solar panel efficiency.
The corporate challenge ended on 31 October. Congratulations to the nearly 80 active CINEA participants and especially to the top walkers Damiao Chaves (A), Mario Lionetti (D2) and Radostina Petrova-Kirilova (C3) for their impressive step counts! Keep walking and join the CINEA’s Walking Group!
After six months, 20 meetings and a couple of leadership walks, the 2022 Women Talent Programme (WTP) came to an end on Thursday 13 October. The WTP coordination team successfully led a fruitful closing event marked by the active participation and strong involvement of all participants.
Many thanks to our CINEA HR Team for organising the traditional Halloween breakfast on 28 October - the event photos are now available the ‘Photos and Videos’ section on CINEAnet. You can also send us your own photos or short videos from your unit/team/department internal events and we will publish them.
In our series of short interviews - ‘Meet your colleagues’ - this week we met Salima Abu Jeriban from Department C. Let us know if you would like to be next!
The H2020 project LOCOMOTION organises an in-person round table on 14 November in Brussels - ‘The raw realities of the green transition’ - about the current energy and raw materials crisis, with scientists, civil society representatives and industry.
A huge congratulations to all 24 CINEA colleagues who successfully represented the Agency in the annual Brussels Ekiden marathon that took place at the King Baudouin Stadium on 22 October! CINEA colleagues from all four departments took part and formed four teams.
CINEA Green Team released the second interview in the series “The ‘go-greener’ of the month featuring Barbara Bernardi, Project Manager in Unit B3. Like many of us, Barbara loves travelling but she is also strongly committed to reducing her environmental footprint at the same time.
Director Beckers and Paloma Aba Garrote will present the Agency to all Commission services in a dedicated session on 24 November. The presentation will focus on the Agency’s mission and core activities.
The new Green Advisory Service for Sustainable Investments will operate under #InvestEU and is funded from the LIFE programme. It aims at building up a pipeline for green investment projects with a high impact. Director Dirk Beckers will officially launch Green Assist at ECOMONDO on 9 November, and Florika Fink-Hooijer, General Director DG ENV, will make a keynote speech on the policy perspective by video message.
On 3 November, the Commission launched a new call for innovative clean tech projects to deliver on #REPowerEU and accelerate Europe's energy independence from Russian fossil fuels. With a budget of EUR 3 billion and four call topics, the call is open until 16 March 2023. Info Days to support possible applicants on the new call will take place on 29-30 November.
Last week two colleagues travelled to Paris to visit the “Lagny” bus depots. The project consists of works to install electrical and bio-CNG charging infrastructure in 9 existing bus depots in the Paris region as well as support the acquisition of 303 electric buses.
Don't plan any meetings from 9:30 to 10:30 next Friday, 28 October! CINEA's HR Team will be welcoming you in the W910 00/41 meeting room for its traditional Halloween breakfast. Bring your mug and spookiest attitude for this get together with your colleagues.
As part of the action plan derived from the 2021 staff survey results, we launched a series of short interviews - ‘Meet your colleagues’ - to introduce people from all Agency’s Departments. This week we meet Luca Marchetti from Department B. Let us know if you would like to be next!
Check their new website to learn more about this project that plans to develop innovative technology to eliminate CO2 emissions stemming from conventional hydrogen production. The proposed solution eliminates the need for catalysts and water, rendering hydrogen production cost-competitive, environmentally friendly and easy to implement.
The study concluded that EU commercial fisheries can be resilient to climate shocks if they are managed following sound scientific advice and the principles of maximum sustainable yield. The study also looks into ways to reduce greenhouse emissions from the fishing sector.
Be well at work: physically, mentally, remotely and at the workplace. Be Well is the Commission's new corporate health and wellbeing programme, which succeeds the fit@work action plan that ran from 2017–2020. Be Well is the result of extensive consultations with staff.
