The Commission has launched a call for setting up AI Factories to boost European leadership in trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). AI Factories will be created around the EU’s world-class network of European High-Performance Computing (HPC) supercomputers and will be available to a range of European users, such as startups, industry and researchers. AI Factories will bring together …
The European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the world’s first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence, enters into force. The AI Act is designed to ensure that AI developed and used in the EU is trustworthy, with safeguards to protect people’s fundamental rights. The regulation aims to establish a harmonised internal market for AI in the EU, …
The European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) launched a Digital Maturity Assessment tool that will help SMEs to identify their strengths and weaknesses in the digital transformation of their business. The tool is open to all companies and freely available in 32 languages. Businesses can use this tool to evaluate their maturity across six key criteria: …
EU Member States, with the support of the European Commission and ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, published the first report on the cybersecurity and resilience of Europe’s telecommunications and electricity sectors. The report points to concerns about a number of risks, including risks to supply chain security, the lack of cyber professionals and the …
EU Member States, with the support of the Commission and of the EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), published a report on the cybersecurity of the telecommunications and electricity sectors in the EU, as well as recommendations to bolster their resilience. The report identifies threats such as cyber-attacks and espionage activities from state-sponsored threat actors and …
The eArchiving Initiative seeks examples and case studies about the calculation of the carbon footprint of electronic archives, archiving software and tools. The eArchiving Initiative is developing a module on sustainable electronic archiving and carbon footprint calculation as part of its academic curriculum. The Initiative is looking for case studies of archivists calculating the carbon footprint …
The ambitious EU climate neutrality targets aim to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To realize this vision, fast and extensive decarbonisation efforts are necessary across all sectors. The integration of digital technologies with energy and mobility systems is crucial for achieving these sustainability goals. A recent report by Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information …
The European Commission welcomes the Cloud-Edge Industrial Working Group’s delivery of the Telco Cloud Thematic Roadmap, which examines cloud environments for the telecoms sector. European cloud and edge industries participate in the industrial Cloud-Edge Working Group to recommend areas of investment for the development and implementation of next generation European cloud and edge technologies to …
The amendment to the EuroHPC Regulation to set up AI factories entered into force enabling the creation of a new pillar of activities for the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). The AI Factories will consist of dedicated AI-supercomputers which will enable fast machine learning, in particular for the training of General Purpose AI (GPAI) …
The Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) announced the opening of calls to support semiconductor research and innovation initiatives in photonics, competence centres, and a cloud-based semiconductor design platform as part of the Chips for Europe initiative under the Chips Act. The total EU funding available for these calls is €325 million, which should be topped …