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The Spanish, Italian, German and French supercomputing centers GENCI, BSC, CINECA and FZJ/JSC are inviting potentially interested suppliers to participate in the open market consultation on 6 September 2017 to prepare their upcoming 73 €million joint Public Procurement of Innovative solutions for High Performance Computing (PPI4HPC).

Launched in August 2017, the European Catalogue of Cybersecurity & Privacy Service Offers contains information and results from cybersecurity & privacy research and innovation initiatives funded on a European, national and regional basis. If you want your project results to get noticed then this is the place to be! The catalogue is an initiative of the EU-funded project Cyberwatching.eu, the European observatory of research and innovation in the field of cybersecurity and privacy.

The European Union has made available financial tools that can boost broadband investment in order to support Member States and private investors, as well as to promote economic growth and opportunities. This guide, created by the Broadband Competence Offices Network Support Facility (BCO-SF), will help understand these broadband investment tools.

Jan Dröge, Director of the Broadband Competence Offices Network Support Facility (BCO-SF) will speak at the 2017 Broadband World Forum. A special registration rate for members of the Broadband Competence Offices Network is available via the BCO Network Forum on Futurium.

Two-part video interview with B4RN – Broadband for the Rural North – a community-owned company started by volunteers to provide hyper-fast (1000 Mbps) symmetric broadband to every property in the community. It is described as the fastest residential network in the world, and has grown from 8 to 40 parishes, adding 150 customers per week.

Registration is open and the agenda is online for the latest training day for European national and regional Broadband Competence Offices on September 19, in Paris.

The European Commission has opened a consultation on the High Performance Computing Initiative in Europe. The Commission wants to gather stakeholders’ opinions on the key areas of the future EU-wide initiative on HPC that will support the development of the next generation of computing and data infrastructure in Europe.

Europeana published a virtual exhibition of vintage postcards of south-eastern Europe this year. They invite people to share their pictures of the same places as they are today as part of the Picture This! competition. To participate, send in your pictures before 31 August 2017 with #PicThisEurope.