A buyers group from Scotland and Spain invites interested operators to submit tenders for their EuropeWave pre-commercial procurement. The aim is to accelerate the design, development, and demonstration of cost-effective wave energy converter (WEC) systems to produce clean electricity, advance promising designs for wave energy converter systems to a point from which they are ready to proceed to a first of a kind commercial-scale design and testing programme and commercial exploitation through other national/regional programmes and/or private sector investment.

The TIQUE Buyers Group of healthcare providers from Spain, Italy and Sweden have identified a common need for the transformation of health and care services for patients with advanced heart failure and co-existing chronic conditions, frail or at risk of becoming frail. They invite potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation of their upcoming pre-commercial procurement that aims to develop and test integrated care approaches to treatment for those patients. The consultation takes place in the form of online meetings between 7 October and 4 November 2021.

A group of healthcare buyers from Sweden, Norway and Spain invites potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for their upcoming Carematrix pre-commercial procurement. Objective is to trigger testing and development of new solutions to anticipate and address the needs of people suffering from multimorbititiy, by ensuring timely service access, co-managed care journeys and transitions between specialties and sectors. The open market consultation takes place as a combination of an RFI, questionnaire and webinars between November-December 2021.

The Canarias islands government has launched a prior announcement for its MEDP-BIG DATA pre-commercial procurement, which aims to create to a "big data for personalized medicine" system. This includes two challenges: a direct information exchange interface - assisted by an artificial intelligence bot - patient / healthcare system - and a clinical decision support system of each individualized and stratified patient; both supported on an intelligent platform that serves both the care of the specific patient and the generation of scientific knowledge for collective use. Aim is to improve

The Brussels intercommunal transport operator, MIVB-STIB, invites interested bidders to submit offers for its Muntstroom pre-commercial procurement. The aim is to develop novel data driven solutions for smart predictive monitoring of people flows, outdoor as well as indoor. A Living Lab is envisaged for testing the solutions in the Brussels Capital Region. Solutions are needed for the Collection, Combination, Storage, Analysis of and Smart Access to people flow-data. Register to the 28/9/21 webinar for more information about the call for tenders. Deadline for submission of offers: 29/10/2021

The European Commission has sent this week a reasoned opinion to Czechia, Estonia, Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Slovenia and Slovakia for failing to provide information about the implementation of the EU Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) into their national laws. The new rules apply on all audiovisual media, both traditional TV broadcasts and on-demand services, as well as video-sharing platforms. They aim to create a regulatory framework fit for the digital age, leading to a safer, fairer and more diverse audiovisual landscape.

The Commission has sent this week a reasoned opinion to Estonia, Spain, Croatia, Ireland, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden for not having notified the Commission about the full transposition of the European Electronic Communications Code.

The Commission has decided this week to refer Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union for breaching EU law safeguarding the independence of the national regulatory authority (NRA), the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE).

The EIC is seeking to build synergies with the wider European startup ecosystem via a new wave of projects under the Commission’s Startup Europe initiative, following the opening of the HORIZON-EIC-2021-STARTUPEU-01-01 call with a total budget of EUR 6 million. The call is open until 18 November 2021.

Four EU-funded films are competing in the 69th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, which has kicked off today. ‘Inventory' by Darko Sinko, ‘Prayers for the Stolen' by Tatiana Huezo, ‘The Crossing' by Florence Miailhe and ‘107 Mothers' by Peter Kerekes are competing within the Official Selection category. The winners of this year's festival will be announced on 25 September during the Festival Closing Gala.