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This workshop will offer an interactive platform for broadband stakeholders in the EU with a strong focus on the challenges of broadband deployment in rural areas faced by the public local and regional authorities. Participants will be given an update on Digital Single Market policy developments.

Startup Europe Week (SEW) is the largest annual multi-event of its kind for Startups, simultaneously connecting hundreds of worldwide events from 11 - 15 March 2019. Learn how to digitally connect your community to the global entrepreneurial community by joining Startup Europe Week 2019 and discover all the support that is available to you.

The Joint Undertaking will present its plans to acquire precursors to exascale and petascale systems, as well as the supercomputing infrastructure roadmap until 2020.

Do you want to share your views about Government in 2030? Are you interested in technology’s impact in future democracy? Do you want to debate about novel ways of policy-making? And are you tempted to explore them by playing the FuturGov game? Then join us on 6 March for a journey to the future!

DG Connect is organising a meeting with stakeholders as part of the preparatory work for the guidelines to be issued in the framework of the revised Audiovisual Media Service Directive.

On 26 and 27 February 2019, the fifth plenary meeting of the DSM (Digital Single Market) self-regulatory cloud stakeholder working groups will take place in Madrid.

Nowadays anyone with the right technology can combine and superimpose existing images and videos onto source images or videos. Deepfakes are becoming more realistic and easier to produce, offering forgery that is qualitatively different from anything we have seen before. It has been described as “fake news on steroids”. The potential to skew information and manipulate the beliefs of online communities is immense, and immensely worrying. What about building confidence with the deep fakes rising? In whom do we trust?

Learn about the benefits graphene will have on communication and health at the Graphene Pavilion at the end of this month.

The FET-Proactive project OPRECOMP aims at demolishing the ultra-conservative “precise” computing abstraction and replacing it with a more flexible and efficient one, namely transprecision computing, saving time and energy.

The purpose of this call for tenders is to carry out a study on possible projects to enhance the bandwidth between the EU and the Southern Mediterranean countries, amongst South Mediterranean countries as well as between the EU and Sub-Saharan landlocked countries via the South Mediterranean countries. This publication is made pursuant to Point 3.1 of Annex 1 to Financial Regulation 2018 that provides for an ex-ante publication on the Institutions' websites of contracts with a value up to 144.000 EUR (study reference SMART 2018/0007).