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At the Awards Ceremony and a Gala event organized by the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) in Brussels on January 31st, the European Commission has been awarded for advancing international public policy cooperation on blockchain technologies in its role of co-chair of INATBA’s Governmental Advisory Body. Deputy Director of DG CNECT’s Platforms’s Directorate, …

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High-speed broadband and smart solutions are important for the revitalisation of many rural areas. This article explores how the EU supports this, particularly through initiatives such as the European Broadband Competence Offices Network, Smart Rural 21 and Smart Villages, as well as with a range of funding instruments and targeted policies. Europe is facing a …

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The European Commission has published a report on the initial three-year phase of the Quantum Technologies Flagship. This report reviews the successful results and concrete achievements of the Flagship’s quantum research projects and takes stock of key lessons learned, as the Flagship’s next phase gets underway. During its ramp-up phase (2018-2022), the Flagship supported 24 projects in quantum …

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The deadlines to apply for the second set of calls for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility Digital Programme worth €277 million have been extended to: 21 March 2023 – 17:00 CET (Brussels) for calls on: 5G coverage along transport corridors, 5G for smart communities, backbone networks for pan-European cloud federations, backbone connectivity for Digital Global Gateways, …

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On 28 January 1981, the Council of Europe adopted Convention 108, the first legally binding international instrument on data protection. To commemorate this landmark development, EU institutions, agencies and bodies celebrate Data Protection Day every 28January. Globally known as Data Privacy Day, the objective is to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. Discover some …

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Τhe Commission has published a list of high-value datasets that public sector bodies will have to make available for re-use, free of charge, within 16 months. Certain public sector data, such as meteorological or air quality data are particularly interesting for creators of value-added services and applications and have important benefits for society, the environment and the …

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The Innovation Radar is a publicly available repository of innovative outputs of EU funded research and innovation projects. It was set up to make it easier to discover innovations with high potential funded by the EU. It has started 2023 with a significant milestone and now contains more than 10,000 innovations developed with EU funding. …

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The Smart Network and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) has launched its second Call for Proposals 2023. The second call for proposals of the SNS JU can be found on the EU Funding and Tenders Portal. With a deadline set for 25 April 2023, participants can now submit their proposals online. On 14 December 2022, the Smart Networks and Services …

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The Commission is launching the European Cancer Imaging Initiative to support healthcare providers, research institutes and innovators in making the best use of innovative data-driven solutions for cancer treatment and care. The initiative, a flagship action under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, will work towards creating a digital infrastructure linking up resources and databases of cancer imaging data across the EU, …

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To make the EU the place where AI excellence thrives from the lab to the market, the European Union is setting up world-class Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) for AI. Together with Member States, the Commission is co-funding the TEFs to support AI developers to bring trustworthy AI to the market more efficiently, and facilitate …

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