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The European Research and Innovation Days, Europe’s annual flagship event on the future of research and innovation, starts today. The two-day event will take place online until tomorrow 24 June. It features more than 60 live sessions, over 200 speakers, and connects around 20.000 participating policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens.

To boost research and innovation investments in digital, the Commission launched today new European Partnerships together with industry and academia, under the Horizon Europe programme.
The Partnerships will pursue innovative solutions on a large scale, pooling in efforts, resources and investments which will generate long-term positive impact, boost European competitiveness and technological sovereignty, as well as create jobs and growth.

The Commission is today laying out a vision to build a new Joint Cyber Unit to tackle the rising number of serious cyber incidents impacting public services, as well as the life of businesses and citizens across the European Union. Advanced and coordinated responses in the field of cybersecurity have become increasingly necessary, as cyberattacks grow in number, scale and consequences, impacting heavily our security. All relevant actors in the EU need to be prepared to respond collectively and exchange relevant information on a ‘need to share', rather than only ‘need to know', basis.

The Web Accessibility Directive enters its last phase of implementation

Commission decision on the prior consent to the establishment of a local office presence of ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) in Brussels, Belgium - C(2021) 4626 final

Today the European Commission published a new report that takes stock of national strategies on Artificial Intelligence and provides suggestions for future developments.

The Commission has today released the European Innovation Scoreboard 2021, which shows that Europe's innovation performance continues to improve across the EU. On average, innovation performance has increased by 12.5% since 2014. There is continued convergence within the EU, with lower performing countries growing faster than higher performing ones, therefore closing the innovation gap among them.

“Spain is the first European country to develop a broadband scheme for grey areas with a geographical scope covering all the nation” states Elena Galindo from Spain’s Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda, in this video. Ms Galindo, representing Spain’s national Broadband Competence Office, explains that the scheme is needed as approximately “8-10% of the population living in isolated rural and remote areas could not be covered with fast broadband”. It aims to cover 3.5 million people, of which 430,000 in grey areas, with minimum speeds of 300 Mbps symmetrical, upgradeable to 1 Gbps.

Today, the European Commission gave it prior consent to the establishment of a local office presence of ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) in Brussels, Belgium.

With its 2021 update, the MAVISE database now offers a central access point to jurisdiction information related to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD).