Projects about Boosting European digital Industry

Given the global situation the World is facing these days due to the coronavirus pandemic, many governments, companies and citizen movements have developed mHealth initiatives to keep the population informed and help manage the crisis situation. A non-exhaustive compilation of some initiatives developed at European level has been created by the EU-funded mHealth Hub project.

In order to help build a strong European ecosystem where startups can thrive, Startup Europe is empowering 7 projects, funded under Horizon 2020, that are connecting local ecosystems across Europe.

Interested in the impacts achieved by pre-commercial procurements (PCPs) funded by the EU's research and innovation program? Check out new data about the link between PCP and venture capital and its impact on the commercialization success rate of companies and the modernization of public services (see slide pack). Check out also updated data how the impacts of the EU funded PCPs compare to those of PCPs implemented at national level or to those of other procurement approaches, such as the innovation partnership procedure.

An EU funded project, EoT, which designed an embedded vision platform for mobile applications such as wearables, drones, smart toys and video surveillance, has received the ECS Innovation Award 2019 at the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems in Helsinki.

In 2017, Sør-Trøndelag County Council in Norway realised that it had to do something to lower the emissions of the public ferry services. Otherwise, the County would not be able to achieve its own climate goals. Six speedboats emit the same as 1000 busses. Therefore Trøndelag conducted together with 10 other Counties in 2018-2019 a pre-commercial procurement (PCP) to challenge industry to develop emission free high speed ferry boats. Five consortia delivered on the challenge and the Counties are now preparing to procure the new emission free boat services.

In 2019, 10 public research organisations from 7 EU countries completed the EU funded Helix Nebula Science Cloud pre-commercial procurement (HNSciCloud) and kick-started the uptake of new cloud-based systems with big data storage and analysis tools needed by large scientific projects. The HNSciCloud consortium won the 2019 Procura+ Award ‘outstanding innovation procurement in ICT’. May 2020, an extended buyers group of 40 countries started buying the larger rollout across Europe of cloud research services based on the HNSciCloud results.

The EU-funded project SNIFFPHONE has developed a system that can identify whether someone has stomach cancer by analysing exhaled gases using a compact handheld sensor device that is plugged into a smartphone.

The Startup Europe Project MyGateway is looking for 25 companies that have already raised seed or series A funding to join Startup Europe at the Startup Europe Summit (Romania, 21-22 March). Travel and accommodation expenses are fully covered.

A breakthrough in handwritten text recognition, layout analysis and keyword spotting has been made. A service platform helps reveal European and international cultural heritage and search for centuries-old documents.

The EU-funded project HiPEAC has released its annual vision report, which analyses the challenges that the computing sector faces and how technologies will evolve in the future.