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By Lorcan McNamara The first Digital Europe Programme calls of the year have been launched, offering over €122 million in EU funding for ground-breaking digital projects in, among others: - Data (€31 million), with investment in the 'Genome for Europe' project to establish a European reference genome database that will foster break-through advances...

By Ruth Estrada Dorronsoro As the world faces unprecedented challenges in the areas of climate change, energy supply and biodiversity loss, the importance of research and innovation cannot be overstated. However, without open dialogue and the exchange of ideas, progress in these areas would come to a halt. At Schuman Associates, we believe tha...

  By Anca Wlizło As of April 18, a total of €611 million in funding for innovative and impactful sustainability projects in the areas of nature conservation, environmental protection, climate action, and clean energy transition, has become available via the 2023 calls for project proposals under the European Commission's LIFE Programme. Projec...

Innovation and growth, solidarity and peace As we near the end of a challenging year for Europe, we are proud to have been part of the EU-lead innovation and solidarity that saw it through. With initiatives ranging from the Green Transition and Digital Transformation, to the growth of education, skills and health solutions, we are prouder than ever...

 By Mike Savarese, Country Lead - Italy On September 27, the European Commission endorsed a positive assessment of Italy's second payment request for €21 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, confirming that the milestones and targets for the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) remain unchanged for the time ...

 By Mike Savarese, Country Lead - Italy Are you following the Italian elections? You may want to watch closely. Billions in EU funding may be at risk from this untimely governmental change: if any key milestones are missed, these important funds will be delayed or forfeited. This is a high stakes election for anyone doing business in Italy. We...

Schuman Associates is proud to share the newly updated NextGenerationEU Guide "for the industry to better understand and seize its opportunities", launched by the European Association of Innovation Consultants (EAIC) on 29 June 2022.  Having contributed significantly to this valuable resource, we look forward to taking these insights furt...

 By Anca Wlizło In the past few years, Europe has faced several once-in-a-lifetime crises. Throughout the financial crisis of 2008, the global pandemic and the war in Ukraine, European countries have acted together for the common good. Fighting climate change has not always been the most visible crisis Europe was tackling, but nonetheless, too...

 By Dimitra Vasilia The European Parliament's special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) concluded its work this month (April 2022) with the adoption of its final report, investigating the respective challenges that will come with the deployment of AI technologies and concluding with an u...

 By Ramona Chiritescu Artificial Intelligence, Data Spaces, Cloud, Cybersecurity and Digital Skills: projects in these areas should be on the alert for this year's new round of Digital Europe programme calls. This newly created EU funding programme for 2021-2027 supports investments in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligenc...

By Odysseas Cartalos The context and the call Teaming for Excellence (TfE) is a leading action of Horizon Europe under the objective of building up Research and Innovation (R&I) capacities in countries with reduced R&I performance to enable them to advance to the competitive edge at European and international level. These so called widening...

  By Anca Wlizło The European Union's ambitious climate goals will require significant investments in energy and environmental projects. Considering the substantial budgets made available by the EU to support these through various funding programmes, and the stringency of the climate objectives, the European Commission has reviewed the funding...

By Anca Wlizło Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) are one of the tools the EU can use to reach strategic autonomy in key industries. These projects represent a collective effort to build up entire European value chains.  Considering the different realities across Member States, building an IPCEI is an impressive work ...

A great year for European renewal,with a better one to come This past year has seen a tremendous wave of opportunities and very satisfying wins for our clients and partners. The EU's great new ambitions and commensurate budget brought a year of growth, harnessing the exponential momentum of the green and digital transitions and the boom in health i...

  By Anca Wlizło Looking for the next European Champions in leading industries For several decades, global supply chains have moved raw materials, goods and services across continents, bringing resources and products to our doorsteps. As a result, countries lay their bets on identifying and nurturing their competitive advantages. While global ...

The newly launched Digital Europe programme is the first EU funding programme focused on bringing digital technology to businesses and citizens. Details published last week reveal plans to invest its first-two-year budget of €1.796,2 million heavily in European Digital Innovation Hubs, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, quantum commu...

Author: Odysseas Cartalos  The policy context The European Research Area (ERA) was launched in 2000 to address the fragmentation of the EU's Research and Innovation (R&I) system by creating a single market for R&I, fostering free movement of researchers, scientific knowledge and innovation, and encouraging a more competitive Europ...

Webinar organised by the Council of Europe Development Bank 30 September, 14:30-16:00 CEST Context Growing social inequalities and chronic underinvestment in public infrastructure reinforce each other in increasing the vulnerability of societies and economies to unexpected shocks. The COVID-19 crisis has clearly shown how the impacts of these ...

The EU's newly launched Cloud and Semiconductor Alliances – or Alliance on Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, and Processor and Semiconductor Alliance – will strengthen these two key European industries as part of the EU's Industrial Strategy. With the objective of supporting them to thrive and become autonomous, these alliances are op...

EU4Health's first five calls for projects will open on 29 July and close on 15 September, with the results published in December. Four of the five calls target cancer-related actions, confirming the EU's goal of mitigating the pandemic's impact on cancer control and care. With a combined budget of €19 million, here are the ...