Wherever you go, the European Union might just be around the corner!
🇺🇸 San Francisco: Global Centre of Digital Technology and Innovation
🇬🇱 Nuuk: EU-Greenland partnership
🇺🇦 Kyiv: The Horizon Europe Office
🇪🇸 Sevilla: The European Center for Algorithmic Transparency
We opened new offices around the globe in the last few years, ready to tackle new challenges or seize world opportunities.
RT by @EUClimateAction: 🛰️ Tackling space debris,
🏭 turning CO₂ into stone,
🏛️ reconstructing cultural sites in 3D
and much more!
As we celebrate 40 years of EU research and innovation programmes, let’s navigate through 8 scientific breakthroughs led by EU-funded researchers. ↓
[2024-07-04 09:00 UTC]
Celebrating 40 years of EU research and innovation programmes.
Through these years, we have invested €283 billion in research and more than 30 Nobel Prizes have been won by EU-funded researchers.
What have EU-funded scientists been working on?
🏭 Turning CO₂ into stone
🏛️ Reconstructing cultural sites in 3D
⚛️ A new material, one atom thick and stronger than diamond.
and much more!
Here's a look at 8 scientific breakthroughs by EU-funded researchers ↓
Congratulations to the winners of the EU 2024 Prize for Citizen Science ↓
🥇 INCREASE - for seed preservation
🥈 CoAct - for mental health
🥉 SeaPaCS - against marine pollution
Discover more about their projects here: https//europa.eu/!3bkW9M
R to @EU_Commission: From prevention to diagnosis and treatment, to post-cancer care.
Europe's Beating Cancer Plan is our plan to tackle the disease at every stage and is already making a difference to the lives of cancer patients across Europe.
[2024-05-22 09:49 UTC]
🌿 Nature is beautiful but fragile – so we need to protect it.
The Environmental Crime Directive coming into force today is good news for nature, and for us!
This landmark law is the first of its kind, ensuring:
🟩 the most severe breaches of environmental rules are considered as crimes
🟩 law enforcement authorities and the judiciary have the tools to act effectively
🟩 support and assistance to environmental defenders in criminal proceedings
RT by @EU_ENV: Delivering the #EUGreenDeal ambitions, #ForOurPlanet and for people!
Discover how, since 2019, we tackled the 3⃣ interrelated crisis of:
🌲 Biodiversity loss
🌍 #ClimateChange
🗑️ Pollution
#EUDelivers https://europa.eu/!3h8xJD
[2024-04-30 08:46 UTC]
RT by @EUClimateAction: Wind energy is crucial to meet EU’s #decarbonisation objectives & reach the #renewables target 🎯 of at least 42.5% by 2030.
In 2022, #WindPower accounted for 37.5% of the total #electricity generated from renewables in the EU.
[2024-04-30 13:32 UTC]
RT by @EU_ENV: How is the 🇪🇺 making positive changes that impact your daily life?
It's doing so with:
🏞️a #ZeroPollution environment
♻️more #CircularEconomy
🌲forest protection
🗑️waste management
🏞️#NatureRestoration
Find 5⃣ things that the EU is doing for you & #ForOurPlanet 👇
[2024-04-26 08:14 UTC]
Equal work deserves equal pay.
And equal pay needs transparency.
One year ago, the EU Pay Transparency Directive was approved, bringing us a step closer to equality.
This is particularly important for women, who still earn less than men for the same work.
These rules will help end pay discrimination by ensuring:
🔸Pay transparency for jobseekers
🔸Right to information for employees
🔸Reporting on gender pay gap
🔸Joint pay assessment
Details: https://europa.eu/!hBvTtj
Equal work deserves equal pay.
And equal pay needs transparency.
One year ago, the EU Pay Transparency Directive was approved, bringing us a step closer to equality.
This is particularly important for women, who still earn less than men for the same work.
These rules will help end pay discrimination by ensuring:
🔸Pay transparency for jobseekers
🔸Right to information for employees
🔸Reporting on gender pay gap
🔸Joint pay assessment
Details: https://europa.eu/!hBvTtj
RT by @eurireland: 📅On this day. One year ago.
The EU Pay Transparency Directive was approved, bringing us a step closer to equality.
Equal work deserves equal pay. And transparency is key to making sure this becomes a reality.
[2024-04-24 07:00 UTC]
🌍 This Earth Day and every day, we have taken ambitious steps and introduced concrete measures to reduce plastic pollution, including:
🔁 The EU’s Plastics strategy
🚯 The Single-Use Plastics Directive
♲ The Circular Economy Action Plan
🌊 Zero Pollution Action Plan
Last year, we adopted the chemical legislation REACH that restricts microplastics intentionally added to products. It prevents the release of about half a million tonnes of microplastics in the environment.
RT by @EUClimateAction: EU General Report 2023: Last year, @EU_Commission presented a package to strengthen the #SustainableFinanceEU Framework. It included a recommendation on transition finance to help companies and the financial sector make use of the framework.
🌍 https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2023/en/chapter2.html#subchapter2-5
#EUdelivers
[2024-04-19 06:33 UTC]
We’re digitising your lives with things like the EU Digital Identity Wallet for safe online ID checks and doc shares.
The #EUDigitalIdentity Wallet will allow users to easily obtain, store and share important digital documents, while electronically signing or sealing them for added convenience.
With this tool, control over shared data and access permissions are guaranteed for maximum privacy and security.
📍 It will be a voluntary service available to all who choose to use it.
We #REPowerEU.
On 31 March the winter heating season ended, and our gas storages were over 58% full – the highest level on record at this time of year.
We have emerged from the past winters stronger than before, with greater energy security and solidarity, and a cleaner energy mix.
And we must continue this path to support our citizens and industry, and our Ukrainian friends.
Learn more ➡️ https://europa.eu/!TVTC4N
Five years ago, the EU-supported Event Horizon Telescope captured the first-ever image of a black hole.
Two years later, we got this clearer image.
Science is how we move forward and progress.
Since 1984, we have achieved these milestones:
🧪 More than €283 billion invested in research;
👨🔬 More than 100 EU-funded projects supported for over €200 million during the pandemic;
🏆 More than 30 Nobel prizes won by EU-funded researchers.
We invest in science. For a better future.
For a safer, healthier future for every EU citizen.
On World Health Day, we reflect our achievements to:
💙overcome a pandemic together
💙reinforce our health security
💙reform the EU pharmaceutical legislation
🎗️ set out a plan to beat cancer
💙implement a comprehensive approach to mental health
Through a strong #HealthUnion, we are better prepared for the future.
#EUDelivers
RT by @eurireland: 🇪🇺🇮🇪 We're looking forward to attending this event on 8 April to promote the transformative impact #EUFunding has on communities in Cork!
✍️ Register here to attend in-person or online: https://europa.eu/!nC7J6p
[2024-04-05 09:18 UTC]
R to @EU_Commission: Before you hit the share button, don’t forget to:
✔️ Check the source of information
✔️ Watch out for misleading sponsored content
✔️ Check image authenticity
✔️ See what fact-checkers have to say about it
Countering disinformation has never been so important.
[2024-04-02 15:49 UTC]
