Digital Agenda for Europe - European Commission

Pillar VII: ICT-enabled benefits for EU society

Digital technologies have enormous potential to benefit our everyday lives and tackle social challenges. The Digital Agenda focuses on ICTs capability to reduce energy consumption, support ageing citizens' lives, revolutionises health services and deliver better public services. ICTs can also drive forward the digitisation of Europe's cultural heritage providing online access for all. (read more)

List of Actions

Action 69: Assess whether the ICT sector has complied with common energy and emmission measures
Action 70: Support partnerships between the ICT sector and major emitting sectors
Action 71: Assess contribution of smart grids and define minimum functionalities to promote interoperability
Action 72: Launch Green Paper on Solid State Lighting (SSL)
Action 73: Member States to agree common additional functionalities for smart meters
Action 74: Member States to include specifications for total lifetime costs for public lighting in public procurement
Action 75: Give Europeans secure online access to their medical health data and achieve widespread telemedicine deployment
Action 76: Propose a recommendation to define a minimum common set of patient data
Action 77: Foster EU-wide standards, interoperability testing and certification of eHealth
Action 78: Reinforce the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme
Action 79: Propose a sustainable model for financing the Europeana digital library
Action 80: Propose measures to support cultural and creative industries.
Action 81: Issue recommendation on digital film
Action 82: Implement the Audiovisual Media Services Directive on cultural diversity
Action 83: Propose a Council and Parliament Decision on mutual recognition of e-ID
Action 84: Support seamless cross-border eGovernment services in the single market
Action 85: Review the Public access to Environmental Information Directive
Action 86: Implement cross-border eEnvironment services
Action 87: Issue White Paper on inter-connecting e-procurement capacity in EU
Action 88: Create and implement an ambitious eCommission 2011-2015 action plan
Action 89: Member States to make eGovernment services fully interoperable
Action 90: Points of Single Contact should function as fully fledged eGovernment centres
Action 91: Member States to agree a common list of key cross-border public services
Action 92: Apply the Intelligent Transport System Directive in support of interoperability and rapid standardisation
Action 93: Adopt the Air Traffic Management Solutions for (SESAR)
Action 94: Propose a directive for the deployment of e-Maritime services
Action 95: Propose a directive setting out technical specifications for telematic applications for rail passenger services
Action 96: Member States to fulfil obligations under European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS)

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Press Releases

EU Citizenship: Commission proposes 12 new actions to boost citizens' rights
(2013-05-16 02:00)
Commission welcomes Member States' endorsement of EU Open Data rules
(2013-04-11 02:00)
Global tech sector measures its carbon footprint
(2013-03-18 01:00)

Funding opportunities

Call for tenders: Using scenario analysis towards a new narrative for the role of ICT for growth in Europe, SMART 2012/0070
(2012-10-30 01:00)
Call for Proposals: Challenge 6: ICT for a low carbon economy
(2012-10-18 02:00)
Call for Proposals: Call for proposals Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
(2012-08-21 02:00)

Events

AALIANCE2 Project workshop: Reference Designs for Integrated Applications
(Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2013-06-11 02:00)
FuNeMS2013
(Lisbon, Portugal, 2013-07-03 02:00 to 2013-07-05 02:00)

Publications

Report/Study: ICT for water resources management - Experts Consultation of 31/01/2013
(2013-04-22 02:00)
Report/Study: eCare Benchmarking. Coping with an ageing population – Learning from good eHealth and tele-care practices (SMART 2010/0023)
(2013-04-12 02:00)
Policy/Legislation: Transatlantic eHealth/health IT Cooperation Roadmap
(2013-03-15 01:00)

Project results

CompAAL -Qualification profiles for jobs in Ambient-Assisted Living
(2013-05-02 02:00)
Mobiserv project: Providing robotic carers and smart systems for the elderly
(2013-04-19 02:00)

Audiovisual

Video "epSOS pilots setting sail" (epSOS - the European eHealth project)
(2013-02-25 01:00)
Video of PEPPOL - The Next Phase: OpenPEPPOL (interviews)
(2013-02-25 01:00)
Video STORK 2.0 - Change of address
(2013-02-25 01:00)

Speeches

Speech - Driving digital growth
(Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, 2012-12-18 01:00)
Active Ageing: Delivering Results for Europe
(Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, 2012-11-06 01:00)
Transforming Transport
(Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, 2012-10-26 02:00)