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This article is part of our special report EU ambitions unabated. The absence of the official “enlargement perspective” doesn’t meant that Georgia should be discouraged lodging a membership application. But in order to succeed, Georgia should be more creative in its foreign policy, write Teona Lavrelashvili and Steven Van Hecke. Teona Lavrelashvili is project Manager of the European Party Monitor, KU Leuven. Previously she worked as a policy officer at European Commission, DG NEAR. Steven van Hecke is Associate Professor at KU Leuven, Project Coordinator of the European Party Monitor. G...

Marine Institute Director Elected Chair of JPI Oceans Management Board 18th December 2020 Dr Niall McDonough will serve as Chair of the JPI Oceans Management Board for a three-year term. Credit: Andrew Downes Dr Niall McDonough, Director of Policy Innovation and Research Support Services at the Marine Institute, was recently elected Chair of the JPI Oceans Management Board. JPI Oceans is an intergovernmental platform that works to increase the alignment and impact of national investments in marine and maritime research and innovation in Europe. The platform provides its member countries wit...

InnovFin – EU Finance for innovators  Display in: What financing products are available? InnovFin financing tools cover a wide range of loans, guarantees and equity-type funding, which can be tailored to innovators’ needs. Financing is either provided directly or via a financial intermediary, most usually a bank or a fund. InnovFin is available across all eligible sectors in EU Member States and Associated Countries, under the EU Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020. To read more about which InnovFin products are available and who can benefit from them, please click here. What...