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New studies published by the Commission’s Joint Research Centre explain the relationship between human mobility and the spread of coronavirus, as well as the effectiveness of mobility restriction measures to contain the pandemic.

The Commission has mobilised another €122 million from its research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, for urgently needed research into the coronavirus. The new call for expressions of interest contributes to the Commission's €1.4 billion pledge to the Coronavirus Global Response initiative, launched by President Ursula von der Leyen on 4 May 2020.

A new Call on Medical technologies, Digital tools and Artificial Intelligence analytics, with a budget of €56 million, is launched on May 19 to quickly deploy new solutions using medical technologies, digital tools and artificial intelligence to increase our response capabilities to this coronavirus crisis, improve the recovery, and better prepare for future such crises or waves.

The OCRE consortium of research and education networks from 48 countries are inviting interested bidders to submit offers for their IaaS+ (Infrastructure as a Service) procurement. This aims to deploy commercial cloud services to empower the research capabilities of the European research community. This OCRE procurement exploits the results of the past HNSciCloud (Helix Nebula Science Cloud) pre-commercial procurement in which such type of innovative cloud based solutions were developed and tested for the European Open Science Cloud. Deadline for submission of offers: 2 June 2020.

This pledge has been put forward by Ioana Stoenescu, expert of the High-level Expert Group on B2G data sharing. It is part of the work of the High-level Expert Group on Business-to-Government (B2G) data sharing, whose report was published in February 2020.

This pledge has been put forward by Stefaan Verhults, expert of the High-level Expert Group on B2G data sharing. It is part of the work of the High-level Expert Group on Business-to-Government (B2G) data sharing, whose report was published in February 2020.

This pledge has been put forward by Nuria Oliver, expert of the High-level Expert Group on B2G data sharing. It is part of the work of the High-level Expert Group on Business-to-Government (B2G) data sharing, whose report was published in February 2020.

This pledge has been put forward by 2 experts of the High-level Expert Group on B2G data sharing: Richard Benjamins and Juan Murillo Arias. It is part of the work of the High-level Expert Group on Business-to-Government (B2G) data sharing, whose report was published in February 2020.

This pledge will help optimise logistic flows and generate a mutualisation of resources. It is part of the work of the High-level Expert Group on Business-to-Government (B2G) data sharing, whose report was published in February 2020.

Europeans want their digital devices to be easier to repair or recycle and are willing to share their personal information to improve public services, as a special Eurobarometer survey shows. The survey measured attitudes towards the impact of digitalisation on daily lives of Europeans in 27 EU Member States and the United Kingdom. It covers several different areas including digitalisation and the environment, sharing personal information, disinformation, digital skills and the use of digital ID.