Digital skills and jobs coalition, digital opportunity traineeship initiative and startup Europe
Organisations who want to boost digital skills in Europe can get more information on how to become a member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition and on how to take action to tackle the digital skills gap. Students who want to get hands-on digital experience can find more information on how to apply for a digital opportunity traineeship. Entrepreneurs can learn more about how to soft-land in other markets and much more with Startup Europe.
Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition website
Digital opportunity traineeship website
.eu (EURid)
The European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid) operates the .eu top-level domain. At the EURid stand, visitors can win a prize by participating in a short quiz. They can also learn about how the secure .eu and .ею domain names are building online trust and watch testimonial videos.
STARTS programme
The European Commission’s STARTS arts stimulating programme promotes the inclusion of artists in projects funded by Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme. The most innovative projects that combine science, technology and the arts, and which make a significant impact in economic and social innovation can compete for the annual STARTS award. The STARTS Residencies programme aims to support and fund artistic residencies that bring original artistic contributions to technology-based projects.
Connecting Europe building blocks (CEF), eGovernment and trust, ISA²
The CEF programme funds generic digital service infrastructures, or building blocks, which can be reused in any European project. These building blocks help make digital public services across borders and sectors easier. The ISA² programme funds digital solutions that help public administrations, businesses and citizens in Europe to carry out cross-border and cross-sector public services. eGovernment, e-identification and trust services are all part of CEF and ISA².
EU-funded project REVEAL
The REVEAL project creates a technology that will help game studios to easily develop educational games for Playstation VR to discover Europe’s rich cultural heritage. Visitors can try the demo version of the imperial forum game.
EU-funded project My health my data
The my health my data project will show how they use blockchain technology to create a safe and easily accessible platform to store, transfer and retrieve medical data.
EU-funded project V4Design
V4Design uses visual and textual content to improve the re-living of a specific location in virtual reality. They will create a platform where architects, designers and video game creators can discover and reuse cultural heritage objects.
EU-funded project SPARK
Spatial augmented reality is used by the SPARK project to create co-creativity between the client, the brief, the designer and the consumer. Visitors can try the technology and interact by modifying graphics elements on packaging designs using real objects.
EU-funded project VOSTARS
The VOSTARS project is designing and developing a disruptive wearable augmented reality system to act as surgical navigator. The technology will integrate the surgeon’s view and provide stereoscopic vision, HD capabilities, lightness, wearability, precision and no more obtrusive external trackers. An early demonstrator will be presented.
EU-funded project PAL
The personal assistant for a healthy lifestyle PAL project will demonstrate its developed robot and tablet application that supports parents, health care professionals and children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
EU-funded project ImAc
The immmersive accessibility project investigates how accessibility services can be integrated with immersive media. Visitors can participate in a multiscreen immersive experience and learn more about accessibility.
Google Arts & Culture and Google Earth Voyager Story “Discover Bulgaria”
This online exhibition is prepared by the Bulgarian National Gallery for Google Arts and Culture Platform where you can discover Bulgaria through the Google earth voyager story. There are also demonstrations of cardboard and arts experiments.