Overview

Joint Action EUnetCCC, part of EU4Health, creates a European network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres (CCCs) to ensure the EU population accesses top‑level cancer care. Funded with €112 million (€90 million EC co‑funding) and involving 234 organisations from 27 EU states and four partners, it targets at least 100 certified CCCs—one per Member State—reaching 90 % patient coverage by 2028. CCCs combine prevention, treatment, research and education, promoting cross‑border collaboration and greater equity.

This event will showcase how EU4Health and Horizon Europe 'Health' projects in HaDEA’s portfolio work together on cardiovascular health, with a focus on their contribution to the main pillars of the EU Safe Hearts Plan.The event will be organised around panel discussions with involved projects and policy interventions from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (SANTE) and for Research and Innovation (RTD).Agenda and registration link will follow.

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The Commission proposes amending the EMFAF Regulation to ease funding for fishers and aquaculture producers: clearer definitions for “energy transition” and “pilot projects”, flexible engine‑replacement rules, higher aid for young fishers, new temporary‑cessation and small‑scale schemes, doubled fleet‑measure ceilings, and stricter WTO‑compliant sustainability conditions.

The proposal for a new Regulation to modernise and simplify the EU's public procurement framework embeds sustainability criteria, giving priority to bio‑based and circular solutions, simplifies tender procedures and introduces electronic tools, reduces administrative barriers and encourages innovation partnerships. By mandating green public procurement and aligning awards with EU bioeconomy objectives, it opens sizable public markets for bio‑based products across Europe.

Europe’s farmers are global leaders in producing healthy, high-quality, sustainable food and animal feed. However, they rely to an important extent on imported mineral and fossil-based fertilisers. This CORDIS Results Pack highlights 11 EU-funded projects on bio-based fertilisers (BBFs) that alleviate farmer pressures through innovative fertiliser production and use, alongside improved nutrient recycling and management. In addition, this Pack aims to inform the wider public, scientific community and policymakers about recent R&I developments on BBFs funded by the EU.

This study analyses the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more specifically: a) how different organic interventions enable farmers to practice organic agriculture; b) how organic agriculture comparatively performs in terms of productivity and profitability.

This study analyses the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more specifically: a) how different organic interventions enable farmers to practice organic agriculture; b) how organic agriculture comparatively performs in terms of productivity and profitability.

Blue foods include thousands of species of aquatic plants and animals, many of them rich in protein and micronutrients. This vast diversity offers enormous potential. Sustainably harvested blue foods can help achieve the SDGs by alleviating hunger and malnutrition; improving health; reducing pressure on oceans, water, land and climate; and maintaining or creating decent livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

This commentary observes that achieving the EAT-Lancet report's recommended transition to the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) requires social, economic and production transformations which risk exacerbating gender inequalities throughout food systems unless strategies to create a just transition for women and girls are similarly bold and transformative. It sets out how women are disadvantaged across food systems and notes that recent shocks and anti-rights backlash have reversed progress, leaving a persistent gender gap in food insecurity.

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This paper synthesizes country-level decomposition evidence on the gender gap in agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa, identifying its major drivers and reviewing what works to close it. Gender productivity gaps range between 7 percent and 77 percent across twelve African countries, with male-managed plots yielding higher outputs than those managed by women.