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27 CEOs of leading European companies submitted to the European Commission, a roadmap outlining technological priorities for investment needed to strengthen Europe's leadership in cloud and edge technologies. The companies agree to continue cooperating and further elaborating this strategic technology roadmap in the framework of the forthcoming Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud.

Impact Assessment of the Regulation on Artificial intelligence

The Commission is proposing the first ever legal framework on AI, which addresses the risks of AI and positions Europe to play a leading role globally.

The 2021 Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the next step in creating EU global leadership in trustworthy AI. It builds on the strong collaboration between the Commission and Member States established during the 2018 Coordinated Plan.

Faced with the rapid technological development of AI and a global policy context where more and more countries are investing heavily in AI, the EU must act as one to harness the many opportunities and address challenges of AI in a future-proof manner. To promote the development of AI and address the potential high risks it poses to safety and fundamental rights equally, the Commission is presenting both a proposal for a regulatory framework on AI and a revised coordinated plan on AI.

Active and fruitful collaboration between European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) will be a key element in the network of EDIHs.On 13 April 2021, an on-line webinar discussed the various options for collaboration between EDIHs in the different contexts, and how the collaboration activities should be mentioned in the text of the proposals. Examples of different forms of collaborations were presented. 600+ participants attended the on-line event.

CYBERWISER.EU organised a whole-day online event on 25 March 2021. The first part of the event gathered experts from all across Europe setting the scene on the state-of-the-art in cybersecurity training, presenting existing solutions and opportunities to increase capacity building, evaluating best practices based on the emerging needs of SMEs and other organisations. There was also a practical training session on CYBERWISER.eu platform, with an opportunity to participate in a more detailed demonstration of the CYBERWISER.eu training platform. The recording is available now.

In this brochure the 24 new robotics projects launched in January 2021 are presented. These new Horizon 2020 projects work on robotics in application areas.

WiFi4EU provides free access to public Wi-Fi in parks, schools, public buildings, health centres throughout Europe. WiFi4EU networks are free of charge, free of data harvesting and free of advertisements. One voucher per municipality = 15,000

The Commission organised multi-stakeholder discussions between 23 February and 4 March 2021 - in the form of four online meetings - to collect input feeding into the preparation of the Guidance for strengthening the Code of Practice on Disinformation, as a follow-up to the European Democracy Action Plan.