On 27 May last, José Ignacio Hormaeche, Managing Director of the Basque Energy Cluster, presented the advances of the DOCC-OFF project (Digitalization of Critical Components in OFFshore Wind Turbines) during a round table on Renewable Marine Energies and Digitalisation projects organised by the Atlantic Maritime Strategy as part of the third pillar of the Atlantic .
A European Union health official on Thursday argued that some people in the region likely died from COVID-19 due to delays in the delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Pierre Delsaux, the deputy director general at DG SANTE, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, said during a Politico Live virtual panel titled, "Health in the EU's post-COVID-19 recovery," that some EU states relying on the AstraZeneca shot,.
New Urban Mobility Initiative: Five consultation workshops for stakeholders in June
In line with the priorities of the European Green Deal and the Sustainable and Smart Transport Strategy, transport – including urban mobility – should become drastically less polluting and undergo twin green and digital transitions, to build a resilient and sustainable transport system for generations to come.
The European Commission’s new urban mobility initiative, currently under preparation, will operationalise these goals by proposing actions needed to address common urban mobility challenges like pollution, congestion, accessibility and urban road safety, thus improving people’s quality of life.
Within the framework of the consultation process on its new initiative, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport is organising five consultation workshops on topics of interest for stakeholders and the public:
BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT:
The REACH OUT project aims to provide an improved response regarding gender based violence perpetrated against women, girls, men and boys migrants, including refugees. This European project is implemented jointly by MdM-Belgium (Antwerp), MdM Germany (Munich), MdM Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Nijmegen) and the Serbian Red Cross of Sid (Sid). It is implemented with the support of the European Commission s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumer Affairs, through the Rights, Equality and Citizenship funds.
This project aims to prevent gender-based violence among these particularly marginalised populations, to identify survivors and people at risk of GBV, in order to provide them with services meeting their needs and to complement existing services through dynamic collaboration between stakeholders. The aim is therefore to identify involved actors, to strengthen practices and protocols through training and exchanges of experie