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BioMot, a project working to create wearable robots that help injured patients move better, has concluded with a successful trial. The trial showed that the injured subject was able to use the BioMot robot to exercise, helping their gait function. BioMot now plans to create devices that patients can use at home.

Bulgaria has signed the declaration 'Towards access to at least 1 million sequenced genomes in the EU by 2022', becoming the 14th country to participate in the joint national and European effort to deliver cross-border access to genomic information.

The first ever EOSC-hub week takes place on 16-20 April 2018 in Malaga, Spain, and brings together service providers, researchers and policy-makers to focus on the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud.

Researchers acknowledge robots will never substitute human care. But, they say, machines can at certain moments, address loneliness or isolation associated with dementia. Futuris, the Euronews tech channel, travels to Ireland to see how a new robot could transform elderly care.

At the event on High Performance Computing (HPC) taking place on 19 April in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Human Brain project will showcase some of its latest developments, focusing on the areas where the use of HPC is playing a key role in enhancing brain research.

Capable of 12 quadrillion calculations per second, JUWELS will replace this spring the Tier-0 machine JUQUEEN, opening the way to Exascale supercomputers.

Are you involved in a project providing citizens with access to high-speed broadband internet? Then you may be a candidate for the 2018 European Broadband Awards! All projects, big or small, rural or urban, private or public and of all technologies may apply for the awards. More information will be available in the coming weeks.

The first meeting of the new Digital Single Market cloud stakeholder working groups will take place in Brussels on 17 April. The creation of the working groups was spurred by the Commission's legislative proposals of 13 September 2017 on the free flow of non-personal data and cyber security. These working groups will conduct self-regulatory work in the areas of cloud security and porting data/switching cloud service providers.

Today the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition celebrates its 100th pledge aimed at bringing digital skills to Europeans. Since the launch in December 2016, organisations, government bodies and businesses who are members of the Coalition provided more than 3.7 million online or face-to-face trainings, one million certificates and 9,000 job placements and internships. Over a million citizens became more aware of the importance of digital skills for employability, competitiveness and participation in society through various organised activities.

The next deadline for submission of Research and Innovation Actions proposals under the Horizon 2020 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET-Open) programme is 16 May 2018. An information package with guidelines on proposal preparation, submission procedures and specific criteria for evaluation has just been put together.