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European Commission supports the Global Hack, a global tech movement to combat the coronavirus

The European Commission is supporting the Global Hack, an online hackathon, organised by Accelerate Estonia, Garage48, Guaana with the support of Devpost. The Hackathon is designed to share and rapidly develop ideas for the urgently needed solutions in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The Global Hack aims to partner people from around the world with one another to exchange ideas, know-how and best practices...Read more
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EACP: Teaming Up against Covid-19

In the article published on April 2nd on the network's website, the European Aerospace Cluster Partnership informs on the actions taken to ease exchange and cooperation among its members under the current Covid-19 crisis. "EACP initiated different channels as #membersupport and #nationalperspectives to easier exchange about these crucial topics within the network. EACP members share information about each...Read more
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European Commission launched eTranslation for SMEs, an online machine translation service

The European Commission has created a useful translation tool that is available to all SMEs across Europe: eTranslation for SMEs . eTranslation is a state-of-the-art online machine translation service. The eTranslation service is free of charge and will help you save time and money to translate your documents and text between any two official EU languages, and more! eTranslation guarantees the...Read more
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EUREKA Calls for projects

The EUREKA network, a leading facilitator of innovation, promotes and supports market-oriented international R&D&I project generation. EUREKA projects have a ‘bottom-up’ nature meaning that the project consortium defines the technology to be developed and how the project comes together as a whole. The consortium also agrees upon the intellectual property rights and how the partnership is built; it...Read more
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The Call for Applications for The Atlantic Project Awards in now open

The Call of Applications to select the 2020 Atlantic Project Awards, aimed to honour outstanding success stories, achieved by projects in the geographical area covered by the Atlantic Strategy and that are related to the implementation of the Atlantic Action Plan is now open. Please see the guidelines for applicants and get ready to submit the online application form before 18 June 2020. Projects can apply...Read more
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30 national measures adopted under the Temporary Framework for State Aid measures of the European Commission

On 19 March 2020 the European Commission has adopted a Temporary Framework for State Aid measures to support the economy in the current COVID-19 outbreak. The Temporary Framework provides for five types of aid which can be granted by Member States: Direct grants, selective tax advantages and advance payments State guarantees for loans taken by companies from banks Subsidised public loans to companies...Read more
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In force from today 1 April: EUR 37 billion from EU Funds available for national governments to help SMEs pay salaries and bills, buy medical supplies and have liquidity

As part of the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative (CRII), the European Commission proposal to mobilise €37 billion from EU Funds to support Member States in countering the COVID19 crisis as adopted by the European Union Council enters into force on 1 April 2020 . Please find more details here .Read more
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European Commission: How can public buyers make fast and efficient purchases during coronavirus crisis? EU guidelines here

The European Commission has made available guidance on how to use all the flexibilities offered by the EU public procurement framework in the emergency situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The guidance outlines the options and flexibilities provided by the EU legislation and provides an overview of the choice of tendering procedures available to public buyers and applicable deadlines. Read here...Read more
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Member States: Schengen restrictions on land, air and sea borders

The coronavirus outbreak has pushed many Member States to reintroduce border controls at internal borders on the grounds of an immediate threat to public policy. Member States must notify the Commission and the other Member States before taking action, specifying the reasons, scope and duration of the measures. The European Parliament Think Tank has mapped all Schengen restrictions on land, air and sea...Read more
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Lithuanian industrial clusters support their businesses while facing a crisis

Businesses start counting huge losses due to the restrictions announced in the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic internationally. Large, medium-sized and small Lithuanian enterprises have already been hit by the crisis as well. If companies were hesitating to benefit from clustering so far, the situation caused by the quarantine illustrates the value of the network for the rapid flow of relevant information...Read more
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