IEU MONITORING: Funding Innovation Telegram 1 Feb 2018

Our telegram headlines today*: 

# DANUBE STRATEGY: 

• Bulgarian EU Presidency: More than 60 experts from 14 European countries met in Sofia to discuss the opportunities of the Danube Strategy as the grounds for economic development +++ 

# ESIF: 

• Better competencies for better results +++ 
• Key railway connection modernised in Bulgaria thanks to Cohesion policy investments +++ 
• Updated: The EU invests in clean and modern commuter train system in Hungary +++ 
• EP Draft opinion - Cohesion Policy and thematic objective ‘promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures’ - Article 9(7) of the Common Provisions Regulation - PE 616.793v01-00 - Committee on Transport and Tourism +++ 
• EU Commission Answer - ESI Funds investments - E-005740/2017 +++ 
• German Economic Institute (IW) on Cohesion Policy: Focusing on what is important 

# EFSI

• Make money work for a just and fair society, say S&Ds to Commission

# EIB

• Prime Minister Borisov and EIB President Hoyer agree to foster co-operation on the connectivity of the Western Balkans
• EIB boosts the Western Balkans’ economies and fosters European integration
• Kenya: The EIB extends a USD 40 Million financing facility to I&M Bank Ltd

# HORIZON 2020

• €50 million pilot project launched to support network of cybersecurity competence centres

# FP9

• Cefic calls for ambitious FP9

# DG CNECT

• Thursday and Friday 1-2 February 2018: Open PM² Conference – one common and open project management methodology for Europe
• European Commission launches the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum
• How can Europe benefit from blockchain technologies?
• Two key projects launched to implement the European Open Science Cloud
• EU Commission launches a call for proposals for a €50 million pilot to support the creation of a network of cybersecurity competence centres across the EU

# DG SANTE

• Demonstrating results of Big Data initiatives in Healthcare

# DG RTD

• Research Headlines - Boosting wheat yields in the face of climate change
• Updated: Events - Second international awareness session for international regulators, academia and NGOs - 8-9 March 2018, London, United Kingdom
• Events - Towards a European approach on Industrial Infrastructures for Research and Innovation" - 1 March 2018

# EASME

• SME Instrument top innovators pitch their projects to AIRBUS

# LIFE & NATURA 2000

• LIFE summit spells out socioeconomic dividends of Natura 2000

# COST

• Info Day - Czech Republic - COST

# CIVITAS

• Apply now for the CIVITAS SUNRISE Take-Up Cities Group

# ERASMUS +

• Call for proposals: Erasmus Charter for Higher Education Selection 2019

# PARTICIPANT PORTAL

• Latest calls on the Research Participant Portal
• 2018-2020 Mobility for Growth
• 2016 Pilot Projects for action grants
• Call for proposals for action grants 2016: European citizenship rights, anti-discrimination, preventing and combating intolerance
• Action grants to support training activities on the data protection reform
• Cybersecurity

# MFF & EU BUDGET

• Future of EU finances - Commissioner Oettinger visits France and Hungary

# EU COMMISSION REGISTER

• DG REGIO
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION approving the financial contribution to the major project "Modernization of the Sofia - Plovdiv railway line: railway section Elin Pelin - Kostenets" selected as part of the operational programme "Transport and transport infrastructure" in Bulgaria CCI 2016BG16CFMP002
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending Implementing Decision C(2015) 5667 approving the cross-border cooperation programme "Interreg-IPA CBC Romania – Serbia" for the years 2014-2020 under the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II) CCI 2014TC16I5CB002
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending Implementing Decision C(2014) 4134 approving certain elements of the Partnership Agreement with Slovakia CCI 2014SK16M8PA001
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending Implementing Decision C(2014) 8021 approving certain elements of the Partnership Agreement with Italy CCI 2014IT16M8PA001
• DG BUDGET
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU, Euratom) …/… establishing forms for reporting on fraud and irregularities affecting entitlements to traditional own resources and on inspections relating to traditional own resources pursuant to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 608/2014
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU, Euratom) …/… establishing models for statements of accounts for entitlements to own resources and a form for reports on irrecoverable amounts corresponding to the entitlements to own resources pursuant to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 609/2014

# EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER

• EU Commission Answer - EU-funded educational and vocational programmes - E-004510/2017
• EU Commission Answer - EU funding for Rieter CZ s.r.o. - P-005323/2017

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