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The European Week of Regions and Cities kick-off meeting – postponed to 9 April 2025

14/03/2025

The kick-off meeting will take place on Wednesday 26 March from 11:00 to 13:00 CET in the Breydel Auditorium (European Commission, Avenue d'Auderghem 45, Brussels) organised by DG REGIO and the Committee of the Regions to jointly present this year's motto, themes, formats, and milestones. The event will be live-streamed. Online participants will be able to interact via Slido.

Register here to attend the meeting in person (Register by Monday 24 March, 12:00 CET).

To follow the meeting remotely, click here (no need to register for online participation)

More information on the event website. 

 

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Launching the COST Cross-Cutting Activity on career development for young researchers

22/04/2025

The COST Strategic Plan (published at the end of year 2017) introduces a new instrument - the Cross-Cutting Activity (CCA) whose main aim is to better connect policy makers and R&I players to share best practices. The specificity of the CCA is that it is fully supported...

WIDERA Work Programme 2025 EC online Info Day

22/04/2025

European Commission (DG RTD) is organising a dedicated online Info Day on 20 May 2025 (whole day) to present the call topics of the new 2025 WIDERA (Widening and ERA) Work Programme and provide guidance on drafting quality proposals. More information is available here.

14 projects were selected under the ERA 2024-2 call

22/04/2025

They will receive €29 million in total to support early-career researchers, enhance public engagement with science and promote the uptake of research results in society and the economy.  Topic “Science comes to town”: 1 project coordinated by Germany will receive €6...
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