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On 11 November 2021, the European Commission organised a workshop on “Digital Autonomy in the Computing Continuum: From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data”, bringing together experts from industry and academia as well as those seeking to learn about existing work and future funding opportunities in the area of Cloud-Edge-IoT.

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.

This year marks the conclusion of the first phase of the European Broadband Competence Offices (BCOs) Network initiative. Since its launch in 2017, the Network has grown from 10 BCOs to 105, who come together throughout each year to exchange knowledge and build capacity.

The European Audiovisual Observatory has published a mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sport content.

Atomico in partnership with Slush published a comprehensive report on the state of European tech in 2021

On 2 December 2021, following the first call for proposals of the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL), the European Commission held two information workshops on the Agriculture and Mobility data spaces. Both workshops provided participants with an opportunity to learn more about the call, to share ideas on data spaces and network with potential consortium partners.

This is the final report of the conceptualization study “Building a European Cloud Marketplace”, entrusted by the European Commission to CapGemini Invent. The main objective of the study is to offer a conceptualization framework for the topic “Marketplace for federated cloud-to-edge-based services” as included in the Digital Europe Work Programme 2021-2022.

Visual Analytics has launched a survey on extended reality looking into the opportunities and challenges the sector is facing expanding the knowledge-base on research and market dimensions in relation to the use of extended reality technologies.

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.

On 29 November 2021, the Commission organised the second edition of the European News Media Forum, focusing on the sector’s industrial transformation.