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€2.4 bn ‘Innovative Health Initiative’ to better address current health issues
The public-private partnership ‘Innovative Health Initiative’ (IHI), built on the 14 years of experience from the previous ‘Innovative Medicines Initiative’(IMI), expands its scope, focusing less directly on pharmaceuticals and more broadly on health care.
New Ideas for Old Problems: How to Get Health Products to Remote Communities
Global health is a shared responsibility, and addressing today’s global health challenges requires us to go beyond the 20th-century model of donors and recipients, writes Christoph Benn.
European Development Days focus on private sector
The ‘European Development Days’, often called ‘the Davos of Development’ opened yesterday (7 June) in Brussels, with many of the VIP speakers stressing that in a difficult international context, the public sector cannot go it alone and therefore the role of the private sector is key.
Soft drink cold chain delivers vaccines to Africa’s most remote corners
A bright idea turned into reality: vaccines are getting to where they are needed, even in the most remote places in several African countries, thanks to specialised refrigeration support from Coca-Cola.
Report warns against public-private aid ‘blending’ over transparency failures
A key plank of future aid funding to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has come under fire in a report which warns against all ‘blending’ partnerships until a raft of alleged failures are fixed.
A fresh look at public-private partnerships
Public-private partnerships remain an invaluable tool for driving progress, but the unwillingness of governments to collaborate with private businesses has to change, writes Erin Huntington.
The Future for the Europe we need
“No time for business as usual” was the motto repeated by key EU leaders recently when announcing the EU priorities for 2016. These words ring particularly true in today’s context, writes Étienne Davignon. VideoPromoted content
Clean Sky in Action
Aviation faces big challenges in the years to come, in terms of growth and environment. Clean Sky is part of the solution, through the EU H2020 vision, by developing innovative technologies that will help to reduce CO2 emissions and noise levels produced by aircraft.
Energy efficiency investment must increase five-fold, warns report
SPECIAL REPORT / Private investment in energy-efficient buildings renovation must increase five-fold by 2030, according to a group set up by the European Commission and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Finance Initiative.
NGOs worried by ‘financialisation’ of development
With three major milestones just around the corner, many NGOs are urging greater caution in the use of private finance in development aid policies. EURACTIV France reports.![[DFID - UK Department for International Development]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/12/development_aid_french_rwanda_creditdfid_-_uk_department_for_international_development.jpeg)
Development NGOs warn EU ministers against their ‘fixation’ with the private sector
EU development ministers met today (12 December) in Brussels and adopted a “perspective” to boost the role of the private sector in the field of development cooperation. But leading NGOs warned that placing the private sector at the centre of EU development policy “shows ministers have failed to acknowledge its limitations”. VideoPromoted content
Can private money end global poverty?
2015 will see the superseding of the Millennium Development Goals by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while next year has also been declared as the European Year for Development (#EYD2015). VideoPromoted content
Commission, industry pledge €2.5 billion for big data
The European Commission and Europe's data industry pledged on Monday to invest €2.5 billion in a public-private partnership, aiming to “strengthen the data sector and put Europe at the forefront of the global data race.” VideoPromoted content
Sustainable chemistry: at the forefront of European innovation
A new video of interviews from the 2014 SusChem Stakeholder event features interviews with Clara de la Torre of the European Commission, Gernot Klotz of Cefic, Peter Nagler from Evonik and Louis Neltner of Solvay.![Strive Masiyiwa [Project Syndicate]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/strive-masiyiwa-africa_progress_panel_credit-projectsyndicate.jpeg)
Africa’s Farms of the Future
African agriculture is a sleeping giant: the odds are against Africa's farmers, but the potential for economic growth is huge. It's time to wake up the giant with action on policy, investment and technology, writes Strive Masiyiwa.![[Project Syndicate]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/06/projectsyndicate_image_credit-project-syndicate.jpeg)
The Infrastructure Solution
Failure to make the right infrastructure investments has impaired many countries’ potential to boost economic growth and employment. It is time for policymakers to ensure that infrastructure is realised to its full potential, so that the people who depend on it can realize theirs, write Martin Neil Baily and Robert Palmer.
New EU private sector aid criteria under the microscope
The European Commission has published the first set of guidelines for involving private sector players in delivering overseas aid, a long-standing practice that has generated controversy with some NGOs for its claimed lack of transparency, accountability and potential for corporate profit-taking.
MEPs vote for new public-private scheme for innovative medicines
The European Parliament's committee on industry, research and energy (ITRE) on Friday (24 January) adopted the second public-private joint venture in innovative medicines (IMI2).
INFOGRAPHIC: Private sector and UNESCO join forces for development
UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is increasing its partnerships with business to launch innovative development projects across the world, EURACTIV has found.