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COP26: Will it be different this time?
After being delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, will take place in Glasgow from 1 – 12 November 2021. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described 2021 as a “make or...Promoted content
The Future of manufacturing is Made in Europe
The European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA) is the voice of European manufacturing companies, research institutes and academia. Željko Pazin, EFFRA Executive Director, is presenting here the Made in Europe partnership and how it will shape the future of manufacturing.
Empowering Citizens – The key to a successful digital health transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the untapped potential for the deployment of digital health tools in Europe. Digital tools can empower citizens to manage their own health, allow healthcare workers to treat patients remotely, enable beneficial research efforts,...
STEM skills: Mind the gap!
We often hear from policymakers, media and employer groups that the EU faces a shortage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills. However, what we rarely hear are specific details of what those skills shortages actually are and —...Promoted content
GE Garages Brussels 2016
Digitisation and technology are changing the way we build.Promoted content
Steven Tas, ETNO EB Chair – A new Digital Union
We have to substantially reform our European policies for digital networks and services. Small changes will not be enough.Promoted content
Technology and Media: Shaping the Future of Audience Engagement – Future Media Lab’s 2016 Annual Conference
The sixth Future Media Lab. conference took place on 26 January 2016 in Brussels.Promoted content
Embracing the Internet Opportunity to Drive the European Economy
Europe has an unprecedented opportunity to increase consumer and business use of online technology as it crafts its Digital Single Market plan. The outcome can help grow Europe’s domestic technology industry and boost productivity and sales for traditional European companies -- or stifle them depending on what choices are made.Promoted content
EU Community launches new tool for relevant experts
On 29 January, EURACTIV's flagship innovation project EU Community, presented the beta version of its first tool: EurActory.Promoted content
Vince Cable on the Digital Single Market
“The European Union is part of the solution; not part of the problem” said Vince Cable, in a speech at the Lisbon Council in Brussels on January 20th. The speech, titled "The Europe I Want, the Europe We Need" called for a re-invigorated digital single market. Cable, the British business secretary – and Liberal Democrat MP added that, “digital is central to growth in the European Union” and “we need to be able to show that the internal market works.”Promoted content
The importance of digital technologies and social media
The Yellow Academy is a series of 7 workshops on EU lobbying and communication with a strong focus on case studies.Promoted content
Open and Connected Learning: How to improve and expand education through technology
While the digital revolution has led to an increase in educational resources via the Internet, European education systems are still unable to integrate ICT in their mainstream practices. A Commission initiative titled 'Opening up Education' aims at enhancing education and skills development through new technologies. How can a coherent infrastructure and use of ICT in schools be achieved across Member States? What are the main reasons for not fully exploiting new digital resources such as &#Promoted content
What do European metal, engineering and technology-based industries need from the EU?
CEEMET President Sakari Tamminen discusses the policy environment European metal, engineering, and technology industries require to stay internationally competitive and profitable in today’s world. CEEMET Represents metal, engineering and technology employers in 23 countries, with 200,000 member companies directly employing over 13 million people.Promoted content
Innovating for a wireless future – Interview with Leo Sun
Huawei launched an exhibition “Enriching Life Through Communication – Innovating for a wireless future” at Place du Luxembourg in Brussels from May 14 - 16. Starting from the year 2000, the exhibition guided visitors through a timeline of Huawei’s evolution as an innovator of wireless technologies in the EU.Promoted content
COST Science Night
COST Science Night - How S&T Networks Impact Tomorrow's Europe was held on 4 December 2012. This exclusive event showcased the impact of science and technology networks on Europe's society. At this unique science night researchers leading successful COST networks met research policy-makers and stakeholders for interactive discussions... and fun experiments!Promoted content
StartUp Europe Launch
As Europe faces its highest unemployment rate in more than two decades -- and hitting today's young adults particularly hard -- StartUp Europe is being established to stem the current "brain drain" of talent from the region and empower youth, technology and entrepreneurship. StartUp Europe is a centre of excellence to develop and support entrepreneurship and drive job creation in Europe and is a collaboration between Telefónica and the Lisbon Council - the Brussels-based think tank.Promoted content
EU to define ICT ambition as future Internet is shaped
The role of Europe in shaping the future of the Internet remains to be defined as the European Union's institutions are bracing for a long battle with governments of the union's 27 member states over the amount of money that is to be made available for research & development projects in the ICT sector. The amount of money that will be assigned to the new Horizon2020 research funding programme will show exactly where Europe's ambitions are when it comes to determining which technologies will serve people online.Special ReportPromoted content