The European Innovation Agora is a unique event to be held on 22 March in San Francisco. The Forum brings together key players of the European Innovation Ecosystem to showcase new opportunities for entrepreneurs looking to collaborate, invest or work with Europe. The event will feature Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, who is joined by a delegation of over 40 high-level representatives from the EU including actors involved in the deep-tech ecosystem, representatives of Member States, investors, policymakers, and universities. As a high-level event showcasing the vibrant
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The SMOOTH Conference will take place on May 26-28 in Volos, Greece. The EU-funded research project SMOOTH (Horizon 2020) is organizing an international conference to bring together researchers, practitioners, teachers, civil society organizations, activists, journalists, and policy-makers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of a commons-oriented education to reverse inequalities, to present good practices resulting from ongoing projects, and to inform political decision-making processes. The educational commons concept relies on the idea of sharing space for collaboration, content creation, socialisation, governance, playing, and studying. The EU-funded SMOOTH project will focus
VAST Project aims to bring (moral) values to the forefront of advanced digitisation, and toinvestigate the transformation of core European Values, such as freedom, democracy, equality, therule of law, tolerance, dialogue, dignity, etc. across space and time. Through advanced techniquesand digital tools, VAST studies how the meaning of specific values have been expressed,transformed, and appropriated through time, and how moral values are communicated andperceived in modern societies.
On 25 October, BIOLOC partners gathered in Brussels to officially kick off their project. On this occasion, the partnership fine-tuned project activities that aim to advance the role and impact of social innovation to revitalise European local communities and accelerate the transition to the circular bioeconomy (CBE). BIOLOC will achieve this ambitious goal through comprehensive methodological work and specific actions to be implemented in 12 locations in Spain (Aragon), Greece (Western Macedonia), Bulgaria (Plovdiv), Slovakia (Nitra), Slovenia, Croatia (Adriatic), Hungary (North), Romania (West), the Czech Republic, the Netherlands (Apeldoorn), Germany
Please be informed that the original deadline for applications (15th July) has been extended to 31th July 2022. Further information on our project website: