The war in Ukraine is leaving hundreds of thousands of families and businesses without energy supply. This means no electricity, heating, hot water and hot food. The winter temperature in Ukraine can drop to as low as -15°C. Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure needs support - around 30% of energy Infrastructure has been destroyed by Russian targeted drone campaign. Donations of emergency energy equipment, fuels and funds are urgently needed to repair damaged infrastructure and restore energy supply.

EU-Japan Centre

The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation is a unique venture between the European Commission and the Japanese Government. It is a non-profit organisation established as an affiliate of the Institute of International Studies and Training (IIST). It aims at promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan and at improving EU and Japanese companies’ competitiveness and cooperation by facilitating exchanges of experience and know-how between EU and Japanese businesses.

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AMBITIOUS project: Partner extension call for SMEs

Submit your application by 31 January 2025 to join and unlock new opportunities for innovation! AMBITIOUS project AMBITIOUS is an I3 project co-funded under the I3-2021-INV1 call, which seeks to increase the competitiveness and the resilience of EU value chains on the basis of interregional cooperation and shared smart specialisation areas. The project’s mission is to address a number of important challenges for European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are competitive on the world market, to improve the state-of-the-art in data analysis , artificial intelligence , 5G and... Fri, 01/31/2025 - 12:00

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POLREC 2nd Training Open Call

The POLREC project is a collaborative project between 5 European clusters: Polymeris (coordinator), CENTIMFE, Cluster MAV, PCD/DMN and WFG. It started on the 1 st of September 2022 and will end on the 31 st of August 2025. POLREC is funded by the European Commission Joint Cluster initiatives for Europe’s recovery (Euroclusters) under the Single Market Programme (SMP COSME) Grant Agreement 101074434. During the 3 years-period the project plan to support up to 250 SMEs through financial support to third parties and dedicated services to encourage adoption of recycling technologies, train the... Tue, 02/25/2025 - 12:00

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Agri-food and retail SMEs Renewable Energy Communities

The 'Agri-food and retail SMEs Renewable Energy Communities’ (SMP-COSME-2024-REC-01) call for proposals aims to support the creation of local/regional renewable energy communities (RECs) in the EU, integrating local agri-food and retail SMEs. It aims to contribute to reducing and stabilising the energy costs of the SME members of such RECs. Support will be given by providing advisory and consulting services that facilitate the creation of RECs. The estimated available call budget is €2,900,000 for 3 projects with a duration of 24 months. The deadline for the call is 20 February 2025... Thu, 02/20/2025 - 12:00

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