PiaAhrenkildeEU
@PiaAhrenkilde
Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture at @EU_Commission
In an uncertain world, the EU is standing strong. For its values, for competitiveness and for people. Our strength builds on talents and our shared future will be built on a #UnionOfSkills🇪🇺- a new initiative from the @EU_Commission. We will focus on 4️⃣ areas: ⤵️ 1/5

#ErasmusPlus has changed the lives of more than 16 million people for almost 40 years. The @EU_Commission has proposed to boost EU support to learning mobility, education, skills & solidarity. Creating opportunities for all. #ThePowerOfTogether 👉 europa.eu/!P8XYyy

Today I worked from DG EAC. Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport - are our shared missions and this is the team that helps us turn vision into reality. Thank you for your service, energy, insight, and your tireless work.
Earlier today, I joined @Bloomberg to talk about the @EU_Commission proposal for the next #EUbudget (#MFF). Together with @lizzzburden, @annaedwardsnews & Mark Cudmore, we discussed how this budget puts #people at the centre. 📍A clear baseline: €100 billion for direct…
Creative Europe's Culture Strand has doubled its budget. Double the ambition, double the support, double the capacity. #CultureCompassForEurope
#TeamEuropeForCulturalHeritageinUA 22 EU Member States. 65 impactful actions— including 31 dedicated to #capacitybuilding in Ukraine's cultural heritage sectors. Offering capacity building and scholarship opportunities for Ukrainian students and cultural professionals.…
🇪🇺In the new #MFF, @EUErasmusPlus gets stronger because learning mobility & capacity building are key for a more competitive, attractive and resilient Europe! It will support #UnionOfSkills & European Education Area - to build life competences, basic and advanced skills Europe…
The new AgoraEU Programme strengthens culture in Europe. From libraries to concert halls, from festivals to museums— Europe’s latest long-term budget will invests more in culture. A stronger Creative Europe - Culture Strand. A fairer future for cultural workers. A global…
This is a budget for the realities of today, as well as the challenges of tomorrow. Today we present our proposal. Now we continue the work, with the European Parliament, Member States, with citizens and businesses ↓
Today we present the EU budget for 2028-2034. It's a budget for a new era, that matches Europe’s ambition. That addresses Europe’s challenges. That strengthens our independence.
Productive exchange with @patriziananz - President of the @EUI_EU , together with @OficialRemus & @ligiadeca - Rector and Vice - Rector of @SNSPA_oficial! As 🇷🇴Romania prepares to chair the EUI High Council in 2026 - we reaffirm our commitment to a strong European university…
Culture is our strongest defence. At #URC2025, I launched the first-ever Team Europe Approach in the cultural sector. 22 Member States. 65 actions. €7 million in EU support through Creative Europe in 2025. Safeguarding Ukraine’s heritage, supporting its artists, and defending…
At #URC2025, the EU delivers on education. 📚 €5M from #ErasmusPlus to print 2M 🇺🇦 schoolbooks 🌍 Ukraine to be associated to Erasmus+, giving students & staff full access to opportunities Recovery starts with people.
Investments in youth & sport are key to Ukraine’s recovery—building resilience, unity & global partnerships through sport actions. With Andrea Abodi @andreaabodi and Matvii Bidny @bidnyi_matvii at #URC2025 panel on youth and sport we signalled our readiness to deepen our…
Europe’s budget gives you the chance to study abroad. It supports education and training across borders. It’s an investment in 450 million Europeans - and in your future. #ThePowerOfTogether
Europe could learn a lot from Ukraine - especially how to innovate fast. Now we must ensure that inventions born out of necessity - because of the Russian aggression - can translate into solutions in times of peace. (2/3)
It was an honour and a pleasure to welcome our energetic European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture & Sport @GlennMicallef, together with his great team @PiaAhrenkilde, today at #VillaEuropa🇪🇺, the diplomatic seat of the European Union in Rome…