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The current challenges in STEM education and the way forward

January 2, 2019

Teachers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) need more support, training and tools for implementing innovative pedagogies in schools, such as student-centred learning. It is of particular concern that more than 35% of STEM teachers think they get no pedagogical or technical support in their line of work, even from other teachers of the… » read more

  Posted by European Schoolnet

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Innovation & Enterprise, Science & Policymaking, Social Europe & Jobs

COP24: When will we finally get rid of the “but”?

“The UN’s latest climate meeting ends positively. But there is a lot more to do if global warming is to be stopped” says The Economist about the 24th UN Conference of Parties, the so-called COP24, which came to an end in Katowice on Saturday 15th December. “The agreement struck in Poland is not strong enough,… » read more

  Posted by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, EurActiv.com, Global Europe, Regional Policy

New reporting standards for extractive companies in Ukraine

December 18, 2018

Ukraine has sufficient natural gas reserves to meet own gas demand. According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, in 2017 Ukraine ranked second among the European countries by its proved gas reserves (1.1 trillion cubic meters), with only Norway surpassing (1.7 trillion cubic meters). However, it is only fourth by production volumes with… » read more

  Posted by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels

blogactiv, Energy, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe

As Good as It Gets: Why the West Should Start Preparing Itself to a Ukraine under President Tymoshenko

Andreas Umland   The prominent Western commentator of post-Soviet affairs Taras Kuzio has recently come forward with a barrel of English-language attacks on Ukrainian opposition politician Yulia Tymoshenko – so far, the clear front-runner in Ukraine’s upcoming presidential elections in March 2019. Kuzio has placed several critical and partly denigrating texts about Tymoshenko in reputed… » read more

  Posted by Andreas Umland

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe

In a Time of Changing Geopolitical Landscape, should the EU re-evaluate its approach to China?

December 13, 2018

Confidence in the EU has gradually diminished after a series of crises of values. This has enabled the rapid growth of the populist and the far-right parties in the V4 countries, which are causing fragmentation within the EU due to what they perceive as unresolved asylum and migration issues. In 2004, Romano Prodi commented on… » read more

  Posted by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Global Europe

In Slovakia, a shining example of EU funds for renewables and families

There is a sad joke in Slovakia that the country could become a museum for renewable energy sources (RES). Not because the Slovak physicist Aurel Stodola invented in 1928 the world’s oldest heat pump that still powers Geneva’s city hall, but because of its antiquated energy policy that lacks systematic support for renewables at the… » read more

  Posted by Bankwatch

blogactiv, Climate & Environment, EU Budget, EurActiv.com, Sustainable Dev.

Free movement of goods: A new goal for Ukraine and the EU

December 7, 2018

It is time for both EU and Ukraine to reshape their long-term relations, especially in the context of the heated debate about the future of the EU and its neighbourhood policy towards Balkans, Turkey and Great Britain. The jubilee 20th Ukraine-EU Summit provided a good basis for Kyiv to raise the issues of long-term cooperation… » read more

  Posted by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels

blogactiv, Enlargement, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe

Three years of the National Police Law: the history of success and resistance of the system

November 19, 2018

Public demand for radical changes in the system of law enforcement agencies in Ukraine exists already for a number of years. The Revolution of Dignity only testified to their relevance, especially in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Public discussions of that period resulted in a number of specific indicators (requirements) to the process… » read more

  Posted by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels

blogactiv, EurActiv.com, Europe's East, Global Europe

Why and How Ukraine Should Open Up to the EU Now

  Kyiv should foster Ukraine’s European integration, economic growth and national security by offering EU citizens instantaneous residence and work permission   By Andrej Novak and Andreas Umland Recent Eurostat data reveals that Ukrainians have been granted the most residency permits of any nationals in the EU last year. During 2017 alone, approximately 662,000 Ukrainians… » read more

  Posted by Andreas Umland

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