EUREKA 2024: Fair of culture and creativity - Friuli Venezia Giulia
EUREKA Fair 2024, promoted by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region, serves as a dynamic platform for European businesses in the cultural and creative industries.
The initiative aims to promote networking, dialogue, innovation, and collaboration among CCI and traditional companies, making it ideal for enterprises seeking to improve their competitiveness as well as for all culture and innovation enthusiasts. As an exhibitor at Eureka 2024, by reserving a booth, they will have the opportunity to meet leaders in the cultural and creative industry and take part in two days of exposition, B2B meetings, workshops, and conferences.
All the information about the new edition of the Eureka Fair in 2024 and how to participate as exhibitors are now available on the webpage.
For further information:
Pordenone Fiere - e-mail: etorzo@fierapordenone.it
EHDS, for a Data-driven Health Transformation
Biocat, ScanBalt, the Council of European BioRegions and Health Cluster Portugal, the EDAH project consortium, and with the support of the Flemish Government, Sciensano and SITRA, are organising a conference “EHDS, for a data-driven health innovation” in the framework of the Belgium Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This event will take place on 30 May 2024, from 09:15-15:00, both in person at the Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire building, Flemish Government, and online.
The European Parliament has just adopted the European Health Data Space (EHDS), a key pillar of the European Health Union. The agreement reached is of utmost importance for better healthcare for citizens, for transformative data-driven research and innovation and the development of a more personalised medicine. Understanding this groundbreaking regulation and the health data scenario it will open is crucial for researchers, innovators, patients, policymakers and society.
The activity will be a side event of the high-level Conference on Personalised Medicine -organised by the Flemish Government and taking place on the 28-29 May. It will update the state of the EHDS, connecting it to EU-wide initiatives like TEHDAS, EP Permed or 1 Million Genomes. It will discuss scenarios of implementation of EHDS with examples and good practices at the Member State or Regional level, highlighting opportunities for advancing personalised treatments in both public and private research areas.
The panelists are top representatives of European Institutions, industry, academia, healthcare and policymaking.
The event is organised as a hybrid event and the online participation information will be sent after registration before the event.
Learn more and register here.
Space Meetings Veneto 2024
Space meetings Veneto is an international conference and business meeting dedicated to the Space Industry. The event will be taking place in Venice, from 20 to 22 May.
The goal of the event is to connect suppliers operating in both the upstream and downstream parts of the space sector value chain and aeronautics companies to investors, buyers, research centres, government and space agencies, facilitating business and knowledge exchange for three days.
To learn more and register, click here.
The third Call for Proposals of the European Urban Initiative- Innovative Actions is now open
The third EUI-Innovative Actions (EUI-IA) Call for Proposals is now open and will close on 14 October 2024 at 14.00 CEST, with an allocated indicative budget of EUR 90 million ERDF. Each project can receive up to a maximum of EUR 5 million ERDF co-financing and project implementation should take place within a maximum period of 3,5 years.
Cities interested in applying are invited to begin developing their project proposals as early as possible utilising the various resources available on this call page. The following steps are recommended to start with:
- Read the third EUI-IA call topics descriptions;
- Develop a project idea in line with one of the topics answering local challenges in your city;
- Set up your project partnership by establishing contacts with relevant entities, e.g. public and private partners, NGOs, universities, SMEs, etc.
- Start co-designing your project work plan framework with your project partners and stakeholders.
Find more information and resources on this page.
ESD Talk #2 - Uncovering skills for the future in healthcare
Following the launch of ESD Talks as part of the Erasmus+ Centres of Vocational Excellence project ,TEACH4SD is thrilled to announce ESD Talk #2, which will examine the health sector from the skills side. The healthcare sector is currently struggling with the increasing elderly population and its consequences (e.g., age-related diseases), which outweigh other requirements on the future workforce.
In this second edition, TEACH4SD is proud to welcome Claire Nassiet, Head of Innovation Adoption & Healthcare Transformation, EIT Health, and Matilda Åberg-Wennerholm , Partnership /Collaboration Lead, EIT Health Scandinavia. Claire Nassiet and Mathilda Åberg-Wennerholm will present Pact for Skills for Partnership for the European Health Industry with a view on skills needed in the future and the green transition.
Addtionally, there will be a panel debate with different perspectives on the implementation of ESD in the Healthcare Sector. Panelists are Susanne Jastrup, Head of Education for the nursing programme at VIA University College, Sigrid Amalie Beierholm, student ambassador for SDG Ambassador corps at VIA University College, and Birgitte Woge Nielsen, educator at VIA University College.
The panel discussion is moderated by Jeppe Kiel Christensen from VIA University College.
The webinar is hosted by the Erasmus+ project TEACH4SD and marks the second edition of four annual sessions during the four-year project. Join them as they address the current European state of art on green skills in education with our fellow EU partners.
To learn more and register, click here.
How to achieve real integration of social sciences and humanities into transdisciplinary research for a competitive, green and fair Europe?
The EU’s Framework Programme (FP) for Research and Innovation is a political instrument to achieve specific EU goals, in particular the Green Deal. The integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) in transdisciplinary research is a necessity to reach these goals, which has been emphasized in previous FPs. However, further integration of SSH is considered a priority and the seminar will address this issue.
The seminar will focus on best practices and tools to reach a higher level of integration of SSH, in particular for climate- and health-specific issues:
- How can the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation address that true integration of SSH into transdisciplinary research may require dedicated resources?
- How can work programme calls be outlined to be attractive to include SSH researchers?
- How can the evaluation criteria and process for different instruments be developed to further support the inclusion of SSH in funded projects?
The Panel will be led by the Stockholm Trio for Sustainable Action addressing complex sustainability challenges through the use of transdisciplinary approaches in collaboration with key stakeholders.
You can register via this link. Further details on the seminar will be available soon.
For more information, please contact Johan Schuber jschuber@kth.se.
EU Sparks for Climate: European Citizens Hackathon Championship
The 'EU Sparks for Climate' initiative is organising a series of online hackathons in several countries to facilitate the collaborative creation of innovative technological and social solutions by teams of citizens and researchers in support of the EU Mission for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities and the EU Mission for Adaptation to Climate Change.
To participate, citizens must first propose a climate challenge relevant to their community, city or region, while researchers must bring their expertise to work with citizens to develop the solutions.
Hackathons will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons, as well as on Saturdays (full day). All hackathons will be virtual.
Each hackathon is facilitated by a local host. There are local hosts in 18 Member States and 4 associated countries. The winners of each local hackathon will have access to a dedicated training and coaching programme aimed at honing their skills and preparing them for the EU final.
At the EU final, three winning teams will be selected to receive €5,000 per team, access to the Angel Investors Network, tailored mentoring, support to commercialise the solution, support for a crowdfunding campaign and support to scale the solution.
Learn more about the exact dates of the nationally-led online hackathons on the dedicated website and register here.
ICT WG: Call for examples on Artificial Intelligence strategies at local and regional levels
The ICT Working Group is looking for examples from local and regional authorities having adopted, or being in the process of adopting, a strategy on Artificial Intelligence. The examples would be presented in an upcoming meeting on “AI-related strategies at regional and local level ”, which will take place on Wednesday 12 June 2024 (14:00 to 16:00 CEST).
We are specifically looking for:
- Existing, or almost finalised strategies related to Artificial Intelligence at the local and regional level
- Open consultation processes organised to consult different stakeholders from digital innovation ecosystems in creating or implementing such strategies
- Challenges or needs identified for support in developing such strategies at the local and regional level
The examples should focus on the added value of AI-related strategies for supporting public authorities, the challenges identified in creating or implementing such strategies (in relation to stakeholders’ engagement, for instance) and what would be needed to support this work further in the future. The European Commission representative will be invited to react to the example presented during the meeting.
To support actors from back home to get engaged in the discussion, the presentation can be done online.
ERRIN members interested in sharing their first reflections during the upcoming meeting, are invited to reach out to rodolphe.doite@errin.eu by Wednesday 29 May 2024, with a short description of the proposed example.
You may find more details about the meeting and register here.
- Rodolphe Doité
- 16 May 2024
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Deadline29 May 2024
ERRIN Contact
Urban and sustainable water solutions: tackling key challenges in the Nordic capital regions
The Nordic capital regions of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm are hosting a EU Green Week partner event on urban sustainable water solutions on 30 May from 10:00-12:00 at Rue Guimard 7, 1040 Brussels.
The impact of climate change, pollution and challenges of management has put pressure on water resources all around Europe and is affecting the way of life for citizens. The Nordic capital regions of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm all have significant coastlines, archipelagos, and waterways connected to the sea. Water resilience is therefore a topic that is highly relevant from a Nordic perspective.
Join on 30 May to discuss how to tackle key challenges in sustainable water management.
Please see more information and register here.
Agenda
10.00 Welcome by moderator.
Ms. Louise Coffineau, Senior Policy Advisor Environment, Eurocities
10.05 Keynote.
Ms. Silvia Bartolini, Head of Unit Marine Environment and Clean Water Services, DG
Environment
10.25 How to manage a rising sea level and lake water within a city.
Mr. Peter Svärd, Project Director and Ms. Lisa Jacobsson, Deputy Project Director, from the project “The New Slussen”.
10.45 PFAS challenges and solutions from a regional perspective.
Mr. John Flyvbjerg, Chief Consultant Environment, Capital Region of Denmark
11.00 Best practices and challenges from Helsinki region
11.15 Actions and investments for a clean and healthy Oslofjord where citizens can engage in outdoor activities.
Ms. Solveig Schytz, Councilor for planning, cultural heritage, climate and environment, Akershus County
11.30 Panel discussion and Q&A.
11.55 Concluding remarks by moderator.
Ms. Louise Coffineau, Senior Policy Advisor Environment, Eurocities
12.00 Networking lunch.