In response to recent climate-related natural disasters, the European Commission has proposed amendments to key EU regulations, enabling a quicker and more flexible mobilisation of funds for post-disaster recovery efforts.

Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, and Vasco Alves Cordeiro, President of the European Committee of the Regions, announced the winners of this year’s REGIOSTARS awards on 9 October at a ceremony in Brussels, Belgium.

The Social innovation forum 2024, a cornerstone of the ESF+ Social innovation+ initiative, explored the key skills for social innovators and how social innovations can drive skill development across Europe.

Curious about how the EU invests in skills? A new report on EU cohesion funds details how much is being invested, what activities are being funded, and who is expected to benefit from investments in education, training, and labour market skills.

The public vote for the REGIOSTARS 2024 competition – a label of excellence for EU cohesion policy projects – is open until 9 October 12:00 CET on the official REGIOSTARS website!

The European Social Fund (ESF) is the European Union’s main instrument for investing in people. In 2014-2022, the fund helped Member States progress towards achieving the EU’s 2030 headline targets in

The European Social Fund (ESF) has invested over €770,000 between 2019 and 2022 in career programmes across areas hosting the main venues and events for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: the

The Employment and Social Innovation Programme (EaSI), which financed a wide range of activities in the period 2014-2020, was the most suitable instrument for developing EU-wide tools and actions on

Moldova has joined the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) as an associated country, allowing organisations from Moldova to participate in projects funded by the ESF+ Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) strand.

In this Euronews episode, Real Economy travelled to Romania and France to meet people whose lives have taken a new turn thanks to EU-funded solidarity initiatives aimed at building a strong social