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The latest news :

• 24 July 2020
  RESEMBID vacancy: Manager, Programme Coordination and Implementation Oversight
  The Caribbean OCTs Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID) is a €40M programme financed by the European Union and implemented by Expertise France, the (...)
• 23 June 2020
  UPDATE: EU Sustainable Energy Week: Islands as champions of the green recovery?
  UPDATE: For those of you who were not able to enjoy the webinar live, the recording and the presentations can be accessed here: Event recording and presentations In the framework of the EU (...)
• 15 June 2020
  Webinar 1: "Dialogue on Marine Solutions in the Pacific"
  The BEST Initiative seeks to promote the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of ecosystem services, including ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and (...)
• 5 May 2020
  Report on the Oceans Conference
  The report on the Oceans Conference, which took place on the 16-17 October 2019, is now available. The OCTA Chair, the Prime Minister of Curaçao, M. Rhuggenaath, chaired the conference. In the (...)
• 5 May 2020
  Report on the Sustainable Energy workshop
  OCTA’s workshop, which took place on 9-10 December 2019 on the topic of sustainable energy, served as a platform for OCT representatives and energy experts to share best practices and experiences (...)
• 30 April 2020
  RESEMBID: New “Fast-track” EU-funded COVID-19 Resilience Facility to benefit Caribbean OCTs
  The Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme for Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories (RESEMBID) is funded by the European Union, under the 11th European (...)
• 23 April 2020
  Support measures for the Tourism sector at EU level
  The European Commission was requested by members of the Tourism Task Force of the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament to draft a tourism rescue action plan. The tourism and (...)
• 17 April 2020
  Impact of the outbreak on EU programmes
  In these times of uncertainty, the European Commission has adapted many of their guidelines and deadlines to palliate the negative effects of the COVID-19 crisis on horizontal programmes. During (...)
• 16 March 2020
  OCTA Newsletter Febuary 2020
  You can read our newsletter of Febuary 2020 clicking here.
• 13 March 2020
  Report on the EU Programmes workshop
  The report on the EU programmes workshop is now available. The 2-day workshop, which took place on the 11-12 December 2019, was a great opportunity to learn about programmes such as Erasmus+ (...)
• 17 February 2020
  OCTA Newsletter January 2020
  You can read our first newsletter of 2020 clicking here
• 4 February 2020
  OCTA & FEDOM sign a Partnership Agreement
  On the 30th January 2020, Oliver Gaston, President of the Executive Committee of OCTA, and Jean-Pierre Philibert, President of the FEDOM, Federation of Overseas Companies, signed a Partnership (...)
• 13 December 2019
  11-12 December: strengthening access to EU Programmes in OCTs
  On December 11 and 12, the Association of the Overseas Territories and Countries (OCTA) and the Representation of Greenland to the EU welcomed more than seventy participants from 18 OCTs to (...)
• 11 December 2019
  9-10 December: OCTs representatives pave the way for sustainable energy islands
  The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) Association held a workshop on sustainable energy on December 9 and 10 in Brussels. As marine territories, OCTs face growing challenges with the (...)
• 28 February 2019
  OCTA Executive Committee
  Under OCTA’s present statutes, the Executive Committee is composed of 8 Members and one President, elected by the Ministerial Conference every year from among OCTs having an Europe-based (...)

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