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Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, today launches an online series on remarkable historical women in the arts & sciences, in close collaboration with Europeana. Once a week, from mid-January until International Women’s Day in the first week of March, Europeana will publish the story of an extraordinary historical European woman.

The Creative Europe MEDIA programme is launching the third edition of the EU Film Contest today. Thanks to this online quiz on European cinema, participants can test how much they know about European films for a chance to win one of the 10 trips to experience the Cannes Film Festival and discover the European audiovisual industry at work.

The STARTS programme launches local initiatives in schools to have artists and IT experts jointly teach digital skills.

The AI4EU project officially starts this month, with a kick-off meeting among the partners in Barcelona on 10 January. AI4EU brings together 79 top research institutes, SMEs and large enterprises in 21 countries to build a focal point for artificial intelligence (AI) resources, including data repositories, computing power, tools and algorithms. It will offer services and provide support to potential users of the technology, help them test and integrate AI solutions in their processes, products and services.

The contract to construct a fibre optic cable running under the Atlantic Ocean that will connect Latin America and Europe (from Portugal to Brazil) is now in force. By 2020, the cable will provide high broadband connectivity and boost business, scientific and cultural exchanges between the two continents.

In this blog, TIMESTORM scientific coordinator, Professor Panos Trahanias reviews the motivation and results of the project that tries to enable robots with the sense and perception of time to interact with humans.

The Human Brain Project (HBP) Curriculum on Interdisciplinary Brain Science has entered its third Teaching Cycle, courtesy of the HBP Education Programme.

The European Commission has published its coordinated plan on artificial intelligence, as well as new guidelines on how to deal with the ethical issues relating to AI. Both put humans firmly at the centre of this key technology that has the potential to revolutionise all our lives. Read the full blog post by Roberto Viola, Director General of DG CONNECT at the European Commission.

European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel and Austrian Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology Norbert Hofer presented the awards to the four FIWARE ICT Challenge Vienna winners - Team Kios, Team CC, Team Hop Ubiquitous and Team Elmitel - during the closing ceremony of the Commission’s ICT 2018 research and innovation event in Vienna, Austria on 6 December.

The European Commission has found that an integrated project jointly notified by France, Germany, Italy and the UK for research and innovation in microelectronics, a key enabling technology, is in line with EU State aid rules and contributes to a common European interest. The four Member States will provide in the coming years up to €1.75 billion in funding for this project that aims to unlock an additional €6 billion in private investment. The project should be completed by 2024 (with differing timelines for each sub-project).