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RemIX is one of the five winners of the European Broadband Awards 2016 competition. RemIX focuses on bringing change through affordable technical solutions. It adopts familiar components, standards and technologies, to fit within the target environment, and allows for easy transfer of the model. It is a technically exciting project with an innovative approach: a unique distributed Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for remote and rural networks in Scotland and the United Kingdom. This is an excellent example of future-proof infrastructure and quality of service.

The 70th anniversary edition of Cannes Film Festival closed its doors on Sunday 28 May after revealing its winners. Amongst the films receiving honours, three were co-funded by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. Ruben Östlund’s “The Square” was crowned with Palme d’Or, while “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” won Best Screenplay Prize (Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou), ex-aequo “You Were Never Really Here” (Lynne Ramsay). In the section Un Certain Regard, “Barbara” directed by Mathieu Amalric, was awarded the Prize for Best Poetic Narrative.

Organised by GÉANT, the TNC17 Networking Conference is a major European research networking conference, with more than 650 participants attending this annual event. You can now submit your session proposal.

If you are an SME or a start-up interested in data access and sharing, you can have a say on the challenges you face by participating to a webinar organised on 29 May 2017. You’ll also be able to listen how other SMEs and start-ups access data and build their business models and what their needs and the barriers are

The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission reached a political agreement on the WiFi4EU initiative and its funding which supports installing free public Wi-Fi hotspots in local communities across the EU: in public squares, piazzas, parks, hospitals and other public spaces.

This event, hosted by the 5th Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum (5G MF), will offer participants lively debates around 5G spectrum, standards and deployment as well as exciting showcases of the latest 5G developments from international players.

The Database Directive, adopted in 1996, aims at encouraging the development of databases through appropriate legal protection and the use of data. The Commission launches today a consultation to understand better how the Database Directive is used, to evaluate its impact on users and to identify possible needs of adjustment. Since the entry into force of the Directive, the database market, and more generally the role of data in the economy, has evolved. The Commission has recently presented several initiatives to boost the European data economy. 

The QUANTICOL project aims to develop an innovative formal design and analysis framework for collective adaptive systems (CAS). The framework consists of a purposely defined specification language, paired with a large variety of tool-supported, scalable analysis techniques. The scope of the Industry engagement event, is to boost the technological transfer of the results obtained during the project.