There’s a change of personnel in some of the European Commission’s top jobs, with a new chief at the education and culture directorate (DG EAC) and the appointment of a director to head the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) new digital and data directorate. Danish bureaucrat Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen is the new director general for DG EAC, overseeing the €26.6 billion Erasmus+ education and mobility programme.
Funding opportunities under the Missions Programme will create tangible impacts at European, national, regional and local level on societal challenges important to all citizens
The European Commission can funnel unspent money from the final year of Horizon 2020 to its successor research programme Horizon Europe, a Commission official told MEPs in the budgets committee on Wednesday.