On the initiative of the European Commission, a new network platform „Re-open EU” was launchen to provide the safe travel and tourism in Europe.

17 June 2020

Bringing cycling and tourism together, the Policy Learning Platform proposes a cross-thematic webinar to explore the multiple benefits of cycling tourism and to hear from successfully good practices from different EU regions how to best support this leisure activity that brings so much added value to regions. 

16 June 2020

Increased funding to support the transition of farmers and fishermen in the green economy

05 June 2020

2235 new partnerships scaling up 120 innovative projects to tackle coronavirus challenges.

Building on the success of the previous EUvsVirus Pan-European Hackathon, a Matchathon to boost the scaling up of creative solutions to coronavirus challenges, took place from 21 to 28 May under the patronage of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and the European Innovation Council (EIC). It brought together the 120 winning solutions from the Hackathon with over 458 partners including investors, corporates, public authorities, academia and research institutions from 40 countries.

A total of 2235 partnerships were brokered by the European Commission and the multinational team of 600 volunteers who acted as organisers, mentors and matchmakers for the participating projects. These partnerships do not only concern cash contributions and other forms of funding but also business acceleration services, including mentoring, networking, advisory services and access to incubators, inter alia.

Furthermore, all 120 participating teams will be granted access to Business Acceleration Services under the European Innovation Council (EIC).

More information: here

04 June 2020