The COVID-19 pandemic has only been the latest, very powerful wake-up call on the links between environment and emergencies. Disasters, crises and the environment are intrinsically interconnected...
EU Delegations' efforts to assist developing countries to fight the COVID-19 virus and its consequences have been a priority since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. The Heads of Cooperation in Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria are sharing the challenges they faced, how they responded to this...
Cuando Ana María, menor de edad, dio a luz en el hospital, el personal sanitario avisó a sus familiares y contactó con la Fiscalía para investigar las circunstancias de su embarazo. Su bebé había nacido muy enfermo como consecuencia de la sífilis que ella sufría. Ana María guardó silencio. Fue su...
The EU4Digital Initiative will hold its second annual Steering Committee Meeting. This year it will host a series of virtual sessions spread across the week of 5-9 October 2020, reviewing the digital...
The EU4Digital Facility organised a virtual training on the establishment and management of National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs on 13 July 2020. The objective of the training was to introduce participants to best EU practices for the establishment and management of National Coalitions...
In June 2020, the EU4Digital Facility’s eCommerce team achieved a significant milestone, developing a baseline report on cross-border eCommerce in the EU, which provides a benchmark to assess the state of play of eCommerce in the Eastern partner countries. Later, this assessment will result in...
The EU4Digital eHealth team is organising an online eHealth Network Meeting in September, which aims to bring together network members from the six Eastern partner countries to share key deliverables from activities in the eHealth stream. In the first part of the event, the EU4Digital eHealth team...
In early June 2020, the EU4Digital team held six rounds of online consultations with national stakeholders from the Eastern partner countries as part of its study on ‘Market assessment for the Digital Innovation and Scale-up Initiative (DISC study) in the Eastern partner countries’ . This study...
The EU4Digital Facility has concluded a more than one-year-long work on supporting the six Eastern partner countries with recommendations for national policy instruments in selected priority policy areas of ICT innovation. The selected policy areas are: Intellectual property rights management for...
The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to present its new open initiative GC Human Rights Preparedness, a space for collaboration on the role that human rights must play in addressing the persistent challenges of pandemics and other emergencies. By identifying good practices in a variety of...
The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to present its new open initiative GC Human Rights Preparedness, a space for collaboration on the role that human rights must play in addressing the persistent challenges of pandemics and other emergencies. By identifying good practices in a variety of...
The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to present its new open initiative GC Human Rights Preparedness , a space for collaboration on the role that human rights must play in addressing the persistent challenges of pandemics and other emergencies. By identifying good practices in a variety of...
When the COVID-19 crisis imposed a complete stop of travelling, in the first weeks of March 2020, nearly 200 ROM reviews were immediately affected, and a fast response had to be provided to keep the EU external monitoring function ongoing. Thanks to a full collaboration across the ROM contractors...
SOLiD-South Mediterranean Social Dialogue is a three-year programme (2016-2018) with a budget of 3.750 million Euros, funded up to 80% by the European Union. It is coordinated by a consortium of 10 partners. The major political changes that occurred in 2011 and mainly concerned Southern...