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Deadline: 26th of September, 2019 17:00 hours (Brussels time). The European Commission launched the European Social Economy Regions Pilot (ESER) in February 2018 in order to raise awareness and build networks of social economy stakeholders at regional and local level. The successful initiative has...

On July 2, 2019, the Commission announced the budget plan for the final year of the programme Horizon 2020, which has also the biggest annual tranche - €11 billion - out of the total budget of €77 billion allocated to the programme for the period 2014-2020. Aiming at achieving greater impact of its...

The European Innovation Council (EIC) was established through the provisional agreement reached in March 2019 by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on Horizon Europe, as a one-stop-shop for innovation funding to turn science into new business and accelerate the scale-up of companies...

The European Commission is preparing the implementation of Horizon Europe, the next and most ambitious EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027) with a proposed budget of €100 billion, in an intensive co-design process. As part of the process, the Commission has launched an online...

One of the world’s largest funding programmes for demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies, the new fund aims at creating the right financial incentives for projects to invest in the next generation of low carbon technologies, boosting growth and competitiveness of EU companies and at...

On May 29, 2018, the European Commission proposed, as part of the European Territorial Cooperation INTERREG regulation, a new INTERREG component 5 on Interregional Innovation Investments. This new component 5, financed at €970 MLN, aims to develop European value chains across Europe through two...

The European Commission is currently conducting the two following public consultations: 1. Fitness check on the 2012 State aid modernisation package, railways guidelines and short-term export credit insurance – The consultation is open from 17 April 2019 to 10 July 2019. The aim of this ‘Fitness...

The Centre for Industrial Studies (CSIL), under the auspices of the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, has just launched a survey about the assistance provided by the European Commission to the design and implementation of...

Deadline: 16 April 2019 The European Commission has launched the calls for proposals for programmes to promote European agricultural products throughout the world and within the EU. Each year two calls for proposals are published for SIMPLE and MULTI programmes. Beneficiaries can receive up to 80%...

Save the date for the 6 th edition of the European Cluster Conference that will take place in Bucharest, Romania, from 14 to 16 May. It will bring together 400 cluster policy-makers, cluster managers, practitioners and other stakeholders. The event is organised by the European Commission's...

The European Commission has the pleasure to pre-announce the EU Cluster Weeks main Anchor event that will take place on 1-2 April 2019, in the Hanover Fair premises (Hanover, Germany), in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), in the context of the...

Dear Cluster Community, The entire Cluster Team of the European Commission would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2019! Thanks to your continuous support and enthusiasm in developing modern cluster policy, 2018 has been a major breakthrough in European cluster policy. Firstly...