One of the investment priorities for the ESF in 2014-2020 is to promote the sustainable integration into the labour market of young people, in particular those who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). This will be reinforced by the new Youth Employment Initiative […]

If you have a creative mind, and are an SME, a web entrepreneur or an ICT developer with a good idea for offering a smarter urban life to Europe’s citizens in areas such as quality of life, mobility, resource efficiency, tourism, cultural heritage, health and […]

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 […]

  Birmingham’s internationally renowned Christmas Markets return to the city for six weeks from 17 November – and for the first time will remain open until 29 December. This year the Frankfurt Christmas Market – organised by Birmingham City Council in partnership with Frankfurt Tourism […]

Two project proposals submitted by two Birmingham universities have been awarded with Horizon 2020 funding to support research on radically new technologies. Horizon 2020 is incredibly competitive with the success rate of 1.4%. In 2014/2015, a total of 822 proposals were submitted for the €40 million call […]

Date: 9th October 2015. Time: 13:00 – 14:00. Venue: University of Birmingham (room to be confirmed on registration. Car park available on site; 5 min walk from University station). Scope: The European Commission will launch the new Horizon 2020 call on Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology […]

Innovation is at the forefront of making Birmingham a competitive and economically-viable city. From 24th – 30th September, there will be a pop-up lab – the Operation Innovation Lab (OIL) – running which its host, Innovation Birmingham, are seeking collaborators to work extensively with local start-ups and […]

The community voting for the Climate-KIC Open Innovation Slam is now on and everybody is invited to vote until 21 September. You can have 5 votes to be distributed to 5 ideas. The ideas with the most votes will move on to the jury voting. […]

Open Days, The European Week of Regions and Cities takes place between 6th and 9th October this year on the theme of “Growing together – Smart investment for people”. It will be a week full of workshops and debates across Brussels welcoming 6,000 people and […]

The European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF) has been recently allocated 260 Million euros by the European Union to support various activities in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull region. The ESIF Strategy In February 2014, the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP) published […]