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February is the kickoff to a busy season of Digital Leadership Institute projects - with events for girls and women in tech.In particular, the next Girls Tech Fest is approaching!

The current Cloud Select Industry Group (C-SIG) is made up of representatives from European and multinational industry, public administrations and other interested players. Meetings with this group help the Commission gather feedback on major cloud-related issues from a variety of perspectives.

After three years of activities, the Flagship instrument, and its implementation through the two Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagships, namely Graphene and the Human Brain Project, has been evaluated by a panel of high-level experts.

The sharing economy is proving a major game-changer in a number of different markets, shaking traditional assumptions and disrupting well-established value chains. This event will bring together innovators, business angels, business developers, major industries, venture capitalists and technologists who are anticipating the market disruption that will follow the rise of the sharing economy approach.

An international team, led by a group from the University of Sussex, has produced the first-ever industrial blueprint for a large-scale quantum computer that could lead to an entirely new and exciting technological revolution. That group was also involved in the FET project iQIT, which aimed at combining ion traps and superconducting qubits in one device using microwave photons.

The 12th meeting of the Digital Champions took place in the margins of the Digital Skills and Jobs Conference in Brussels, on the 2nd of December, 2016.

The High Performance Analytics and Computing (HPAC) Platform within the Human Brain Project provides supercomputing, storage, and visualisation resources for the simulation of complex models and for analyzing huge neuroscientific datasets.

Not heard yet about the BROADMAP project? BROADMAP is a European network of public procurers preparing the procurement of interoperable next generation broadband communication systems for public safety and security.

IMAILE partners are looking for other procuring organizations to accelerate the use and development of Education technology. Aim is to prepare both a Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) that could start after ending the ongoing IMAILE Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) in January 2018 and to prepare also a new PCP in the field of education. If you would like to join, please contact IMAILE before 15 March 2017.

Select4Cities published the call for tenders for its Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP). The PCP is powered by the cities of Antwerp, Helsinki and Copenhagen. The challenge is to harness the power of the Internet-of-Everything (IoE) and develop an open, standardised, data-driven, service-orientated and user-centric platform that enables large-scale co-creation and testing of urban IoE applications and services. Deadline to send offers: 14 April 2017 to win R&D contracts ranging from EUR 36,000 to EUR 800,000 each.