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Ten new Centres of Excellence (CoEs) for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications have been selected following the recent call under European Research Infrastructures. They will promote the use of upcoming exascale and extreme performance computing capabilities and scale up existing parallel codes towards exascale scaling performance.

In order to address the investment gap in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe (CESEE) in the digital economy, the European Commission together with the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank Group agreed to launch the Digital Innovation and Scale-up Initiative (DISC). The initiative, launched at the Digital Assembly in Bucharest, is setting up the first regional investment facility that specifically targets digital innovations and the scale-up of digital startups in the CESEE region.

Today at the Digital Assembly in Bucharest, the European Commission together with the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation agreed to launch the Digital Innovation and Scale-up Initiative (DISC).

The Commission has received monthly reports from Google, Facebook and Twitter addressing actions taken during May 2019 towards implementation of the commitments on electoral integrity. These reports are the last ones under the intermediate targeted monitoring of the Code of Practice against disinformation ahead of the European Parliament elections in May 2019 and follow up on the reports submitted for April.

On 14 June 2019, Norway joined the EU Member States driven initiative on linking genomic databases across borders, becoming the 21st country to join this cooperation mechanism.

This week the 8th edition of the Digital Assembly took place in Bucharest, Romania. The event, co-organised by the Commission and the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, brought together representatives of EU Member States with stakeholders from industry, academia and civil society. Discussions focused on what is needed to accelerate the digital transformation and ensure that the EU remains globally competitive.

From 24 June to 05 July 2019, the 4th edition of the CONNECT University Summer School took place with cybersecurity as overarching topic. It was a top-class learning opportunity, allowing participants to get cutting-edge insights on the technical, policy, economical, and societal aspects of cybersecurity and digital privacy. More than 35 high level cybersecurity experts shared with you their knowledge and innovative ideas and discussed upcoming cybersecurity challenges for Europe. You can watch again most of the sessions.

The EU-AU Digital Economy Task Force (DETF) unveiled at the Digital Assembly its final report, a concrete result of the Africa-Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs launched by President Jean-Claude Juncker in the 2018 State of the Union.

At the Digital Assembly, 7 Member States agreed to work together to explore how to make available a quantum communication infrastructure in Europe, to boost European capabilities in quantum technologies, cybersecurity and industrial competitiveness.

The European Commission released the results of the 2019 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which monitors Europe's overall digital performance and tracks the progress of EU countries with respect to their digital competitiveness.