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Updated Information / Informal Meeting of the EU Defence Ministers in Bucharest Wednesday, 30 January, 2019 Working dinner on "Women, Peace and Security" Photo/video opportunity:   18:30 – 19:15 - Doorsteps Venue: Royal Palace 49-53, Victory Ave., Bucharest, entrance A4 Practical information: The event is open for all Media accredited to the Informal Meeting of Defence Ministers in Bucharest. The acces to the press corner starts from 17.30 pm up to 18.00 pm. For the journalists interested for live images, we recommend the…

The High Level Group meeting will take place in Bucharest and will gather experts in education and training. The topics on the agenda will include discussions on the contribution of education and training to the future of the European Union, the future strategic framework in education and training with a special focus on quality, inclusion, mobility and excellence in education.

Ministerial debates at the conference will focus on identifying actions needed to improve prevention and control of infections at national and European level.

In the context of Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Conference on Building Resilience to Natural Disasters, will take place on March 12 2019, in Bucharest. The conference is hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations and provides a framework for debate and exchange of good practices regarding resilience to natural disasters. At the same time, the Conference aims to facilitate the identification and development of…

The meetings scheduled on 15 March will take place at national Bank of Romania, 25 Lipscani street

The key point of this meeting is the exchange of best practices between European leaders and experts from EU countries with large diasporas. The topics will focus on ways in which European countries have established economic and cultural relations with diaspora; the initiatives adopted to support its linguistic and cultural development; the policies that led to the rapid integration of diasporas and policies aimed at supporting the returning process of their citizens in the countries of origin. An important point…

The Joint meeting of the EU Chief Medical, Dental and Nursing Officers (CMOs, CNOs and CDOs) in the EU Member States will be held in Bucharest from 21 to 22 March, 2019. During the event, topics such as patient safety and quality of care and control of healthcare-associated infections, combating antimicrobial resistance, exploiting innovation, and enhancing cooperation to support the health of the population in the European region will be presented and debated.  

Under the auspices of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Romanian Ministry of National Defence, in cooperation with the European Defence Agency (EDA), will organise the conference “Capability-Driven Defence Research and Innovation”. The conference will take place on 26 March 2019 in Bucharest at Palace of the Parliament venue. High-level representatives from Ministries of Defence, defence research centres, industry and the European institutions will discuss the present and future opportunities as well as challenges of…

Schedule 9:00 – 18:00 conference 18:00 – 19:00 visit of the Palace of the Parliament 19:00 – 23:00 dinner Event website: http://tentcefro.eu/

The Romanian Presidency strongly aims at establishing the role of the agricultural and food sectors in the development of the bioeconomy as a vision for the agricultural growth. In many countries there are currently in place policies enhancing the development of the bioeconomy, in areas such as: climate change, sustainable agriculture, livestock and aquaculture, forestry and biodiversity, biotechnology, bioenergy and the use of residual biomass. Many of those policies have evolved over time, in response to different national and international…

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This event is organized by Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with European External Action Service.

On April 16, 2019, the International Conference on topic „2030 Agenda: Partnerships for Sustainable Development“, with participants in their capacity as coordinators at governmental level who lead the process of implementation of the 2030 Agenda, from the European Union  Member States, Eastern Partnership countries, Western Balkans countries,  Central Asia countries, as well as civil society representatives, will take place.

The meeting will be held at Avram Iancu Hall, Palace of Parliament. Note: the meetings scheduled on 8th May will take place at National Library of Romania.

The 7th ASEM Education Ministers’ Meeting (ASEMME7) will be held on the 15th and 16th of May 2019, in Bucharest, Romania, at the Palace of the Parliament. ASEMME7 will be preceded on the 14th of May by the 2nd Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM2) which will also take place at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest. Both meetings will be organised under the auspices of Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The theme of ASEMME7 is „Connecting…

The conference will provide a forum to discuss the use of new technologies in the field of justice (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, Robotic Process Automations etc.). It aims to encourage participants to reflect on both opportunities and challenges arising from the fast pace of technological progress, and on the philosophical aspects implied by the implementation of such tools in the justice area.

The conference is co-organized by Romania and the European Commission. Its aim is to enable the Black Sea littoral countries (Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine) and the Republic of Moldova to adopt a Common Maritime Agenda for the Black Sea at the level of ministers with competences in the field of maritime affairs, in the presence of a high-level representative of the European Commission. The Agenda, which has been negotiated with the support of the European Commission, focuses on…

For the last 29 years, the European Union has been investing in European Territorial cooperation through Interreg, a financing instrument for regional development across borders, which despite its limited financial allocation proved a real added value to the European Union. Territorial cooperation is central to the construction of a common European space and it is a cornerstone of the European integration process. During the 2014-2020 programming period, the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration is responsible, as Managing Authority…

The meeting will take place in Bucharest and will bring together experts in the field of social protection and social inclusion by producing regularly updated information on all areas of social protection. MISSOC is an important source of updated, comparable online information on social protection systems in European countries. The main theme of the Romanian Presidency in the field of employment and social policy is "Mobility of labor as a key element in balancing the labor market". Thus, for this…