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The European Commission has adopted the amended Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom Work Programme 2019-2020. It will continue to support the development of the European Digital Skills and Jobs Platform and National Coalitions, as well as new learning opportunities in artificial intelligence.

The list of eligible entities for the fourth call of the WiFi4EU initiative is now available.

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.

The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition has upgraded its tool for searching, making and updating pledges. It is now easier for organisations to take action and make a pledge to provide digital skills training for Europeans.

The European Commission has launched the seventh edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize celebrates female leaders in innovation and aims to inspire the next generation to follow their footsteps. The contest is funded under Horizon 2020, the EU research and innovation programme. Three “Women Innovators" will each receive €100,000, and another €50,000 will be awarded to a “Rising Innovator”, an exceptional entrepreneur at the beginning of her career.

The Czech capital faces new challenges. How to approach the public-space development issue in a sustainable manner, which will bring an improved comfort and new services to its inhabitants? How to respond to the growing number of the capital’s population and thus to greater demands on the city’s infrastructure?

At EU level, Eurostat is responsible for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics. For the maritime domain, Eurostat collects maritime transport data and publishes statistics regarding transportation of goods and passengers and vessel traffic within the EU, as well as Norway and Turkey.

The European research project SMILE represents a showpiece for the implementation of integrated mobility.

Vehicle-generated data has a huge potential to help achieve public-interest purposes, such as road safety.