EU policy news

This section summarises recent EU policy news and opportunities that are relevant to geoscientists. It includes recently passed legislation, EU funding opportunities and EU Commission consultations.

The tags on the right-hand side of this page can be used to easily locate open EU funding calls sourced from the EU’s participant portal and the EU Commission consultations that are most likely to be of interest to EGU members. EU consultations allow individuals and organisations to provide expertise or submit their opinion on a particular issue.

If you would like to inform others about an EU geoscience-relevant news item or opportunity that is not listed below, please forward the details to the EGU’s Policy Officer, Chloe Hill via policy@egu.eu.

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SAPEA’s New Science for Policy podcast

• General policy news
• 21 September 2020

SAPEA has launched its new podcast series exploring science-policy questions, and many more in conversation with the politicians, policymakers, academics and science communicators who make science advice happen around the world.

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Have your say: Ocean energy consultation — evaluation of EU renewable power generation & policy

• EU consultations
• 14 September 2020

This consultation will gather information from survey participants to assist the Commission in evaluating the European Commission’s policy to promote the development of ocean energy technologies. Ocean energy use is covered by a set of technologies that aims to harness the energy from tides, currents, waves, sea temperature and salinity gradients. Ocean energy could provide clean, predictable, indigenous and reliable energy and contribute to the EU’s objective of reaching a share of renewables of at least 32% of the EU’s gross final consumption by 2030 and to decarbonise the EU economy by 2050 .

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EIC Horizon Prize for ‘European Low-Cost Space Launch’ (open until 01 June 2021)

• EU funding
• 20 June 2018

The European Low-Cost Space Launch is a larger-scale grant (10 million). The proposal should outline an innovative and commercially viable solution that enhances Europe’s access. Furthermore, it should provide strategic and competitive advantages for European companies, SMEs, universities, and research organisations.

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