A BRAND NEW SLIMMED DOWN BUDGET FOR HORIZON EUROPE

Have you heard the (sad) news?

Last Tuesday 21st July, EU leaders agreed on the final Horizon Europe budget. But instead of being the foreseen €94.4 billions it got slashed down to €80.9 billions.

This decision was made after an intense five-day marathon summit where EU leaders had to find a compromise. One of the reasons for not meeting the expectations is the great difference between EU countries which actually benefit from the research and innovation programme (mainly richer, northwestern countries) and those which don’t (mainly poorer countries). And to make the deal happen something had to be sacrificed.

But in the end, we all lose.

Read more about our opinion and experience at https://bit.ly/32untiW

FOUR STEPS CLOSER TO EU PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Most of us have experienced the power of procrastination on our own skin. We’ve all been there: Yes, I will work on it tomorrow; I just need to review this task one more time or I simply can’t sit down and do this. This may happen because there are a million other things we’d rather be doing, or we simply don’t know where to get started.

And that’s ok.

Habits and routines grow on us. We need to segment them into smaller goals and make them measurable. Humans can adapt, no big deal.

Having said this, I would be incredibly happy if you told me you have been postponing brushing up topics related to EU project management. Why? Because I can offer you something that should come in handy for you and will leave NO room for procrastination.

At Europa Media we’re working to democratise some key knowledge related to EU-funded projects. There are concepts which you simply need to get started in this field, and others which are just convenient to revise. And what better way is there to learn than with a video which you can watch at your own pace?

Continue reading at our website.

THE EU4OCEAN PLATFORM, FOCUSED ON OCEAN LITERACY, KICKED-OFF

And Geonardois a proud founding member!

On June 8th, the World’s Ocean Day, the EU4Ocean Coalition on Ocean Literacy was officially launched during the first Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit, together with Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, and IOC-UNESCO. The coalition is composed by three parts:

• The EU4Ocean Platform;
• The Youth4Ocean Forum, and
• The Network of European Blue Schools

Following the coalition, the first meeting on the EU4Ocean Platform took place on the 18 June 2020 with more than 90 participants from different sectors and backgrounds.

The aim?

To be a focal point for organizations and initiatives to connect, collaborate and mobilize efforts on ocean literacy!

After this information session, on last July 2^nd it was announced the final list of founding members, which includes Geonardo, covering together 20 EU Member States, (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, republic of Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden) & 3 Associated countries (Monaco, Norway, UK)

The EU4Ocean Platform founding members will work in Working Groups (WGs) to focus on particular themes/topics, including: Climate and Ocean, Food from the Ocean and Healthy and Clean Ocean. As we plan for EU4Ocean events in September 2020, you can in the meantime take part on the #EU4Ocean platform by becoming a member of the platform.

Why ocean literacy?