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The European Commission supports Member States in their transition to a climate-neutral economy

The European Commission has approved all requests made by 18 Member States for support with the preparation of their territorial just transition plans, which each Member State will have to draw up to get access to funding from the Just Transition Mechanism. The Just Transition Mechanism is part of...
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Grants for joint Nordic events: Nordic solutions to sustainable urban development - Round 7

Application deadline: 6 May 2020 at 15.00 CET By launching this call for proposals for activities outside the Nordic region promoting Nordic solutions for sustainable, smart and liveable cities, Nordic Innovation is looking to create an ambitious showcase and export programme for Nordic solutions to...
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EASME interactive tool for EU funding programmes

Cluster organisations and their members are active participants in many European programmes. Do you want to see in a well structured way what projects are funded and who is behind them? The Executive Agency for SMEs has developed an interactive tool that generates information on EU funding...
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Skills for Industry: Scaling-up Best practices and re-Focusing Programmes and Incentives

The publication, prepared by empirica GmbH on behalf of EASME under the service contract “High-Tech Skills for Europe – Scaling-up Best Practices and re-Focusing Funding Programmes and Incentives” (https://leadership2019.eu/), analyses the funding models of education and training programmes...
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EIC pilot: €210 million awarded to 108 innovative projects to help them access the market faster

108 innovative projects have been selected for funding under the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot in the latest funding round. Under the EIC Accelerator, 96 small companies from 20 countries get support to speed up the pace of their innovation with €177 million while under the FTI scheme, 14...
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European Commission to invest €11 billion in new solutions for societal challenges and drive innovation-led sustainable growth

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...
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INNOSUP-1: providing innovation support for SMEs to develop cross-sectoral value chains

The Horizon 2020 funding programme of cluster-facilitated projects for new industrial value chains, INNOSUP-1 and the projects the funding is delivered through were outlined in a news article published today, July 8, 2019 on EASME's website. Building upon the innovation potential of SMEs and...
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LIFE 2019 call for project proposals

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)...
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ECCP Expert Talks Webinar : The funding mix for cluster organisations

Guest expert: Gerd Meier zu Köcker, Founder of the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis Following the interest expressed by the ECCP cluster community to exchange more through direct interaction, we create the ECCP Expert Talks Webinar Series. These are regular webinars, as a virtual space for...