From April 10 to 13, the New European Bauhaus Festival (NEB) reunited designers, architects, policymakers, and citizens in Brussels to think imagine a more sustainable and inclusive future. The festival's key attraction, the New European Bauhaus Prizes 2024, celebrated 20 exceptional projects that are already making this future a reality.

The Cohesion Forum has been a great success, attended by Presidents of EC, EP, CoR, and EESC, three Commissioners, Ministers, State Ministers, Regional Presidents, and hundreds of stakeholders and practitioners. Ahead of next week's Panorama feature about the Forum, take a look at the recording of the Forum. Read the speech of President von der Leyen. Commissioner Ferreira X account gives insights on what happened at the Forum.

The Sustainable Mobility Infrastructures for Low Emissions and qualitative Service (SMILES) project has officially started, with the objective of supporting improvements in the transport infrastructure of the French city of Nantes. SMILES is financed by the European Union under the Public Sector Loan Facility, which is part of the Just Transition Mechanism (JTM), with a grant of EUR 30 million. The grant complements a loan of EUR 200 million awarded by the European Investment Bank (EIB), bringing the total budget for the project to EUR 400 million.

Since 2019, the von der Leyen Commission has been working hard to support young people across the EU to help them thrive. They are the future leaders and contributors to our society! This brochure highlights the EU’s achievements in supporting youth related issues including, education, employment, health, and environmental initiatives since the start of the current European Commission mandate in 2019.

The 2024 European elections are fast approaching, and young people may have questions ahead of voting for the first time. Get the information you need to vote with this leaflet available in 24 languages, both online and to order in print. You’ll also find additional information on EU related opportunities available to young people to help them shape the Europe of the future.

On the 15th of April, the 9th edition of the Just Transition Platform Conference kicks-off in Brussels. Organised by the Commission, the two-day event will gather more than 1,000 participants from EU regions benefitting from the Just Transition Fund (JTF), to discuss progress on the ground and to share best practices that have demonstrated their added value in the 96 just transition regions identified across the EU.

Croatia: the youngest Member State of the European Union! Since accession, Croatia benefited from 8.6 million euros in cohesion policy support for regional and social development and for competitiveness. Take a look at some tangible results for Croatians! (Read Commissioner's Ferreira entire thread on X).

How is the Cohesion policy helping to make Spain more competitive, sustainable and inclusive? Since accession in 1986, Spain has received 156 billion € in Cohesion funds to support economic, social and territorial cohesion. (Read Commissioner Ferreira's entire thread on X)

Join us on 24-25 April for an enriching experience featuring high-level speakers and participants from around the Union, including Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, Commissioner Elisa Ferreira and Mario Nava, Director General DG REFORM. Together, we'll delve into impactful reforms across Member States.

Today, the Commission announced 20 laureates of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Prizes 2024, for the fourth year in a row, organised with funding from the Cohesion Policy. These prizes reward outstanding projects and initiatives that combine sustainability, inclusion and aesthetics, demonstrating how the European Green Deal transition can practically enrich the lives of people and communities. The prizes are awarded in four categories and two strands: one for established projects (the “New European Bauhaus Champions”) and one for promising initiatives from younger applicants (the “New European Bauhaus Rising Stars”).