Birmingham City Council’s European and International Affairs (EIA) team advice on future EU funding opportunities including: Interreg 5 (2014-2020), promoting cross-border, transnational and inter-regional cooperation of various entities, institutions and companies on relevant matters, the INTERREG programme is an important tool for European regional development. Erasmus […]

The Birmingham Energy Savers (BES) programme has recently been featured in the EUROCITIES publication “GREEN JOBS FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION”. BES programme tackles fuel poverty and the presence of energy inefficient buildings that have a negative impact on the environment. The programme was launched to make the most […]

Innovation Birmingham’s Entrepreneurs for the Future (e4f) start-up support programme was shortlisted for a EUROCITIES award at a ceremony which took place in Ghent, Belgium on 27 November 2013. Birmingham was shortlisted in the ‘smart jobs’ category alongside Brighton’s Employability Advice and Careers Hut and […]

This summer Birmingham will be the first city outside of London to launch direct flights to China. The Guangzhou-headquartered China Southern Airlines will be running a Beijing-Birmingham route from this July. The announcement follows months of hard work by the airport team, and other Birmingham […]

The Commonwealth Association has now been established under the Chairmanship of Mr Keith Stokes – Smith. Like the other Associations membership and focus centres around business and trade; education; culture; community; sport and local government. As the Commonwealth currently comprises some 53 countries the work […]

Newsletter #04       July 2021        Dear Reader, Welcome to the fourth Newsletter of the BETTER project! BETTER is an Interreg Europe project that focuses on the promotion of e-Government solutions. With our project we aim to create a win-win situation for everyone by […]

  An ecosystem is like a finely tuned Swiss watch.  Poetry in motion if you have all the relevant cogs and springs in place, but with one wheel out of kilter, the movement can go to pot.  Investment in people and skills is the oil […]

Why is the Urban M project of interest to you/ to your organisation?   In my role as Interim Head of Employment and Skills, I am always keen to support projects which address one of our city’s most important challenges:  the low skill level in […]

The kick off meeting for the Urban Manufacturing project was a fantastic initial opportunity to meet project managers and policy representatives from the seven other partnerships.  As host city we wanted to give partners a flavour of what Birmingham has to offer in terms of […]

This is a list of forthcoming EU calls for proposals.   Call name Short description Link Deadline Prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children Priorities are primary prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) (i.e. changing social attitudes and behaviour, in order to end tolerance […]