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On February 3rd, a meeting was held to discuss cumulative funding between the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) and the Recovery and Resiliency Facility (RRF) funds and DEP. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the appropriate procedures to manage the different cases in the Member States.

A webinar was held on January 12th to present the final DMA Questionnaire and the accompanying user Manual. During this webinar a methodology for assessing the digital maturity of customers of the EDIHs was presented.

Due to the ongoing open call for proposals for European Digital Innovation Hubs, a meeting was held between DG CNECT A4 and Member State Representatives to discuss Co-Funding and national strategy issues.

A webinar will be held on January 12th from 10:00-12:00 CET to present the final DMA Questionnaire and the accompanying user Manual. During this webinar a methodology for assessing the digital maturity of customers of the EDIHs will be presented.

The Digital Transformation Accelerator (DTA) will support the network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH), to accelerate the digital transformation of the European economy

This meeting, held with Member State representatives on November 15th, discussed and explained the use of RRF for co-financing EDIHs or financing additional EDIHs.

The aim of this Infoday is to shed light on the two-step approach for creating data spaces for manufacturing in Europe. In particular, the Infoday will gather relevant stakeholders to share ideas on who can support, with which focus, the preparatory actions needed to support the deployment of the data spaces.

This webinar will provide the information needed for designated candidate European Digital Innovation Hubs to respond to the EDIH call.

This workshop will explore the next steps to accelerate into a pan-European manufacturing data space and reach out to a very large user base, in particular SMEs.

On 28 October 2021 an online webinar explored the next steps to accelerate into a pan-European manufacturing data space by showcasing examples of already existing data spaces at different levels of maturity and with a variety of measures.

On 13 July the Economic and Financial Affairs Council adopted the Council Regulation on establishing the new European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).

The European Research and Innovation Days 2021 take place this week on 23 and 24 June. Since COVID19 struck more than a year ago, innovation and access to digital tools for education and training have become important priorities across Europe and offered new opportunities for the EdTech sector.

On 17 June 2021 an on-line information meeting provided the latest updates to the European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) Work Programme and the upcoming evaluations to the representatives of Member States. We took the opportunity to have an informal dialogue on the situation in the various countries. Several Member States expressed their concerns related to the uncertainties on the co-funding mechanisms and to the delays in the approval of the workprogramme.

Want to know how much the public sector in your country invests in adopting innovations and in which sectors they invest most (health, ICT..)? Keen to find out if your country has an action plan, target, financial incentives and a competence center for innovation procurement? Check out the results of the EU wide benchmarking of national policy frameworks and investments on innovation procurement across Europe. Now available: Final report, executive summary, country profiles of all 30 benchmarked countries as well as presentations and video of the final workshop that presented the results.

A cycle of webinars is organised by the European Commission to clarify issues related to the European Digital Innovation Hubs restricted call.

This brochure gives an overview of roaming in the European Union. Roaming charges ended for Europeans travelling within the EU countries on 15 June 2017.

The Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) monitors Europe’s overall digital performance and tracks the progress of EU countries in their digital competitiveness.

The FLIPT project tests and develops a novel way of polymer processing via controlled solidification derived from natural materials with reduced use of water and energy ("aquamelt" concept).

The Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Innovation LaunchPad aims to turn results from FET funded projects into societal or economic innovations. Up to EUR 100.000 is available to support short actions focused on the non-scientific aspects and the early stages of turning a FET result into a genuine innovation with socio-economic impacts.

400 patients across Turkey, Portugal, Spain and Italy are actively testing the new personalised diabetes management solutions developed in the PROEMPOWER pre-commercial procurement. Close to 90% of the patients monitored in their homes via the ProEmpower solutions have already returned to normal glucose values. This is thanks to data from Bluetooth-connected glucometers, blood pressure monitors, scales and smart trackers that is transferred automatically to the healthcare professionals, enabling better and more reactive diabetes care. Check out the video!