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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.

Achieving energy efficient, cost effective and versatile solar cells has always been a challenge for the scientific community. The emerging perovskite sensitized solar cells (PSCs) are very attractive candidates to fulfil these requirements. Their potential for fast rise in performance attracted intense attention from scientific community and in particular from GOTSolar consortium.

The European Commission has launched a Call for Tenders to carry out a Study on “Media literacy and online empowerment issues raised by algorithm-driven media services" (SMART 2017/0081).

The aim of the targeted consultation is to collect feedback in order to define EuroHPC, a new legal and financial instrument to boost High Performance Computing in Europe.

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.

This publication is made pursuant to Article 124.1 of the Rules of Application of the Financial Regulation that provides for an ex-ante publication on the Institutions' websites of contracts with a value up to 135.000 EUR. The European Commission will soon launch a call for tenders for a service contract of a maximum value of EUR 120.000 (one hundred twenty thousand).