With the support of €10 million in ERDF funding, ONERA, the Occitanie Region, and the European Commission have officially launched PyCoFiRe – a world-first fire testing platform dedicated to studying the behaviour of composite materials used in modern aerospace under full-scale fire conditions.
frToday, the European Commission has proposed to allocate €280 million from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to support flood recovery in Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Moldova.
A conference on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy - Experience with Cohesion Funds from the Czech Republic and Slovakia will take place on 17 June 2025 at PONTON, Tyršovo nábrežie in Bratislava. It will be moderated by Michala Hergetová.
The C4T Working Groups met on 7 May with experts from 11 countries to develop actions for accelerating sustainability investments. They will prioritise and refine these actions in June, with results to be shared at the C4T Conference later that month.
The C4T Academic Sounding Board has grown to 14 members across 12 countries. It met in May to review progress and plan 2025 activities, and will meet again at the June C4T Conference to further contribute to the community.
The European Commission launched on 22 May 2025 two new I3 Instrument calls for proposals with a budget of EUR 47 million. These calls are open to consortia of applicants from private organisations (SMEs, start-ups), public institutions and academia (universities, research organisations).
Under the auspices of the Polish Presidency and chaired by Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, the EU Ministers responsible for Cohesion Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Urban Matters adopted their Joint Declaration on the importance of the territorial aspect and its consideration in post-2027 development policies at the Informal Ministerial Meeting in Warsaw (21 May). DG Christophidou representing the Commission, welcomed the adoption of the Declaration, which underlines the structural role of cohesion policy in supporting all of the EU’s priorities, highlighting two main strands of work in coming weeks: the Commission’s mid-term review proposal and the ambitious policy agenda for cities that the Commission aims to put forward towards the end of the year.
The Mediterranean is warming up at an alarming speed — 20% faster than the global average — placing its environment and ecosystems at serious risk. During the 2014–2020 programming period, 228 Interreg cooperation projects across the Mediterranean region have actively addressed nature protection and biodiversity conservation, aiming to balance human activity with environmental sustainability, while using research and innovation to promote greener jobs and businesses.
Following the devastating cyclone Chido of December 2024 in Mayotte, the Commission has today granted to France an advance payment of close to €24 million from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to ease the burden of the recovery and reconstruction efforts.
frExecutive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto will visit Sweden on 21-22 May to discuss the priorities of cohesion policy with national, regional, and local leaders. The visit will also cover the Commission's recent proposal to modernize and align cohesion policy with emerging priorities, like competitiveness and defense.