2018 Environment and resources Information Days – calls 2019

Information and networking days on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020, Challenge “Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency & Raw Materials” – 2019 calls – will take place on 11 and 12 September 2018 in Brussels in the European Commission’s Charlemagne building, rue de la Loi 170. The event targets potential applicants to the 2019 calls for project proposals under the …

EuroAccess: New portal to EU funding is now online!

A new portal, EuroAccess,  has been launched acting as a gateway to EU funding, providing the key data of more than 200 EU funding programmes, including (but not limited to!) all Interreg programmes that operate within the geographical scope of the EU macro-regional strategies. Potential applicants can look for open calls for project proposals and filter results based on their …

Finland to chair HELCOM next two years

Finland’s Chairmanship of the Baltic Sea Protection Commission (Helsinki Commission HELCOM) started in the beginning of July. The key task of the two-year Chairmanship is to update the Baltic Sea Action Plan launched in 2007. Measures should be included that enable to achieve a good environmental status for the Baltic Sea by 2030.   On the Finnish initiative HELCOM will …

NCM published Nordic Bioeconomy Programme: 15 Action Points for Sustainable Change

Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat have published the Nordic Bioeconomy Programme: 15 Action Points for Sustainable Change, which combines environmental, social and economic ambitions for a more sustainable Region. The bioeconomy is of fundamental importance to the national economies of the Nordic countries, and especially important for rural development in large parts of the Region. …

Publication: The Rapidly Developing Nordic Bioeconomy: Exerpt from State of the Nordic Region 2018

Nordic Council of Ministers has published a reprint of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ State of the Nordic Region 2018 about the Nordic Bioeconomy.   Authors: Refsgaard, Karen Teräs, Jukka Kull, Michael Oddsson, Geir Jóhannesson, Torfi Kristensen, Iryna   Abstract:The Rapidly Developing Nordic Bioeconomy is a reprint of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ State of the Nordic Region 2018. The …

Baltic Rim Economies 2/2018 Published

The Pan-European Institute publishes a discussion forum, Baltic Rim Economies (BRE), which deals with the development of the Baltic Sea Region. In the BRE review, high-level public and corporate decision makers, representatives of Academia as well as several other experts contribute to the discussion.   The latest Baltic Rim Economies (BRE) issue includes articles on new opportunities in Nordic cooperation, …

Open Call: Mobility scheme for Artists & Culture Professionals

This call for tenders aims to define and test a cross-border mobility scheme tailored for artists and culture professionals. The initiative paves the way for the full implementation of such a mobility scheme after 2020 within the proposed future Creative Europe Programme. A call for tenders has been published (EAC-18-2018) to test an experimental cross-border individual mobility scheme tailored for …

Call for proposals: Supporting the development and promotion of transnational thematic tourism products—exploiting synergies between tourism and cultural and creative industries

Support for transnational thematic tourism linked to cultural and creative industries Deadline: 19/07/2018 The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has just published a call for proposalsThis call encourages the development and promotion of transnational thematic tourism with synergies between cultural and creative industries. It does so by providing co-financing. The call especially targets transnational projects with cooperation between …