The European Parliament has set up a new blog listing the latest digital resources that are free to use. Updated around the clock, this page informs you what images, infographics, videos and photos are available for you to download as soon as they become available.
Not only are these materials free to use, they are also often available in all of the EU’s 24 official languages, from Bulgarian to Swedish.

The high quality editorial products are ready to be embedded, published or broadcast on websites and on social media.
The blog is run by the European Parliament’s web communications unit.

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More than thirty European civil society networks, including EUNET, supported the creation of Civil Society Europe on 16 December 2014 in Rome. The launch of Civil Society Europe will take place on 3 February in the European Parliament Press Center, from 13:30 to 14:00.

Civil Society Europe will work towards regenerating the European project around the shared values of Equality, Solidarity, Inclusiveness and Democracy expressed in its Manifesto.
It will enable horizontal exchanges between civil society organisations and movements across Europe, providing a common and permanent space to share experience and knowledge, scale up campaigns and other forms of collective action, strengthen the capacity of its members to connect people in the diversity of their democratic forms of expression and act for change around the shared values expresses in its Manifesto.

On the anniversary of the signing of the Élysée Treaty, why not take a look at the CVCE’s updated publication on the ‘Franco-German duo’ and its influence on the history of European integration?

The ‘Franco-German duo’ and Europe as seen in cartoons (1945–2013) contains more than 400 press cartoons that offer a humorous, quirky interpretation of this important historical period in which a united Europe began to take shape, and reflects on more than 50 years of Franco-German cooperation. The rapprochement that began in the early years after the Second World War between France and Germany, two countries that had been long-standing enemies, followed a unique path.

As well as cartoons, this publication includes several other documents, resources and digital tools (an interactive timeline, short biographies and a bibliography). It is available in French, English and German.

This multilingual glossary (2014) defines 130 key terms used in European education and training policy. It is an extended and updated version of ‘Terminology of European education and training policy’ (2008) and ‘Terminology of vocational training policy’ (2004).
It considers new priorities of European union policy, mainly in skills and competence needs analysis. New definitions have been developed with experts from Cedefop.

Download: Terminology of European education and training policy (2014)

On January 9th the European Union is officially opening the European Year for Development in the Latvian capital Riga. Latvia has the EU-presidency for the first six months of this year and actually came up with the initiative for a year focused on development three years ago.
This year’s EU slogan “Our world, Our dignity, Our future” is supposed to call upon all European actors to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) together.