Climate change

In 2013, the European Commission adopted a strategy on adaptation to climate change which was welcomed by the EU Member States. The strategy aims to make Europe more climate-resilient. The EU Adaptation Strategy focuses on three key objectives: Promoting action by Member States: The Commission...

At the end of March this year, 27-31.03.2023, two members of the cluster - Knowledge, Innovation and Strategy Management Club (KISMC) and CEED Bulgaria organized a seminar on "Sustainable Innovation and Culture of Change". The seminar was organized within the framework of the international project...

The Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEB), the Cyprus University of Technology (project coordinator) and the Department of Environment of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, participate in the European programme Business4Climate. The programme aims to...

Business4Climate+ is an enterprise-level GHG reduction initiative that provides Cypriot businesses with the tools to identify greenhouse gas emissions from their activities. Building on the Business4Climate project, it also helps businesses draw up an action plan for GHG emissions reduction, and...

Scotland is playing a leading role to develop new technology that can help meet the challenge of global climate change, according to Scotland’s first analysis of the sector. The report, which was commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, has been launched today by ScotlandIS, the membership and cluster...

The increasing manifestations of Climate Change on the African continent present many challenges for African stakeholders. This requires novel and holistic approaches in order to deal with the impacts on water resources and society. One such approach is social innovation - tackling societal, water...

Clusters.es, the Spanish Federation of Clusters, in close collaboration with the European Commision’s unit for Advanced Technologies, Clusters and Social Economy (DG GROW), the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism will have...

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action created in 1992. The current funding period 2014-2020 has a budget of €3.4 billion. The LIFE programme is divided into two sub-programmes, one for environment (representing 75% of the overall financial envelope)...

Deadline: 30th of March 2018 In the framework of supporting innovative actions in the area of sustainable urban development , the European Commission launched in 2015 the Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) Initiative, in order to identify and test new solutions which address issues related to...