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The Spanish, Italian, German and French supercomputing centers GENCI, BSC, CINECA and FZJ/JSC are inviting potentially interested suppliers to participate in the open market consultation on 6 September 2017 to prepare their upcoming 73 €million joint Public Procurement of Innovative solutions for High Performance Computing (PPI4HPC).

Today in Rome the European Commission and Italian government are committing in working together to provide more freely accessible WiFi in Europe.

Researchers and students in the Graphene Flagship are preparing for two exciting experiments in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) to test the viability of graphene for space applications. Both experiments will launch between 6-17 November 2017.

The buyers group of the MARINE-EO pre-commercial procurement is inviting vendors to attend their open market consultation on 12 July 2017 (live streaming available). The buyers are Direção-Geral de Política do Mar (Portugal), Fundo Regional Para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal), Ministerio del Interior (Spain), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece) and Norwegian Coastal Administration (Norway). MARINE-EO is looking for new Copernicus earth observation-based services for marine monitoring and maritime security covering the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Arctic sea-basins.

Mariya Gabriel has been appointed as the new Member of the European Commission for the Digital Economy and Society. She will contribute to delivering a Digital Single Market, helping to lay the groundwork for Europe's digital future with EU-wide telecommunications networks, digital services that cross borders and a wave of innovative European start-ups.

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into proposed high fixed termination rates for 74 smaller operators in Germany. Despite having developed a cost model in line with EU rules, the German regulator (BNetzA) calculates rates based on international benchmarking. BNetzA follows the same approach used to set Deutsche Telekom's rates and which led to a Commission recommendation in June 2017 asking the regulator to amend or withdraw the proposal.

“Cyber Security is a shared responsibility!” is the motto of the European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM) campaign. ECSM is the EU’s annual advocacy campaign that takes place in October and aims to raise awareness of cyber security threats, promote cyber security among citizens and provide up to date security information, through education and sharing of good practices. Are you organising an event for ECSM? Make it known! Do you want to take part but do not know how? Browse the list of events and other resources in your home country!

Seven water utilities are inviting vendors to the open market consultation meetings in September 2017 for their upcoming PCP procurement on smart metering: Viveracqua (IT), Promedio (ES), Eau de Paris (FR), Syndicat des eaux et de l'assainissement Alsace-Moselle (FR), Compagnie intercommunale Liegoise des eaux (BE), Hydrobru (BE), Vizmuvek (HU). SMART.MET focuses on a more efficient open standardised smart-meter based drinking water management framework to improve customer service, decrease operating costs, better prioritize infrastructure investments and contribute to water conservation.