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The EU’s MEDIA programme, created in 1991, supports Europe’s audiovisual sector and since then has invested over €2.4 billion on content, creativity and cultural diversity in Europe. The MEDIA programme's current budget - €820 million for 2014 to 2020-, comes to an end soon. Actions on how the next MEDIA Programme can help the audiovisual industry to take further advantage of the possibilities offered by online distribution and online viewing are on the discussion table.

IBSEN has published in Nature interesting results regarding models of the dynamics of social behavior for large groups taking different types of behaviors (the hawk or the dove, aggressive versus cooperative). This will help in the future to develop large human behaviour simulators that will have important consequences like policy testing for pressing societal issues.

The European Commission will launch soon a call for tenders for a service contract of a maximum value of 90 000,00 EUR. Mobile satellite services (MSS) are services provided by a satellite system which communicates with portable terminals on the ground, which can be carried by a person or mounted on a car or ship (study reference SMART 2016/0097).

Ten cities using the most innovative ideas to improve quality of life and to involve citizens in community life have reached the final stage of the European Capital of Innovation Award 2017. Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, said: "Every new edition of the European Capital of Innovation showcases more inspiring and innovative ideas from across Europe. The tough competition this year proved how vibrant our local innovation ecosystems are."

The European Commission is looking for organisations based in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, or Slovenia taking on the role of a Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) to participate in a training programme managed by PwC and Oxentia.

OpenLivingLab Days is the annual summit of the worldwide Living Lab community. The 4 day event includes interactive sessions, workshops, lively discussion panels with excursions and off-site visits with the aim of giving the participants a wider insight about models, theories and technologies related to Living Labs.

The German cities Dortmund, Duisburg and Arnsberg are the test beds for new remote assisted-living technologies that enable the elderly to live independently at home for as long as possible, secure in the knowledge that medical care and other assistance are never far away. The tests demonstrate how such a system can have a sustainable business model. The project was selected as one of the finalists of the RegioStars Awards 2017.

The European Commission has launched a Call for Tenders to carry out a Study on the “Assessment of the cost of providing wholesale roaming services in the EU/EEA countries" (SMART 2017/0091).