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EU funded H2020 project U_CODE goes from success to success, and two years after the end of the project it has just received the prestigious German Award, the Ralf Dahrendorf Award for the European Research Area from the German Ministry of Research. It is also building a start-up to upscale the results from the U_CODE project.

The Master in Artificial Intelligence for Public Services (AI4Gov) is a new higher education programme funded by the European Union, and developed by four leading European universities in the fields of digital, technology, and engineering science. 

The aim of the EIF4SCC is to provide leaders of EU local administrations with definitions, principles, recommendations, practical use cases drawn from cities and communities from around Europe and beyond, and a common model to facilitate delivery of services to the public across domains, cities, regions and borders.

Discover how the common goal of improving connectivity and citizen’s access to digital public services has brought Italian national and local authorities closer to the European Commission.

Today, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into the Irish Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg)’s analysis of the retail markets for fixed telephony services and the corresponding wholesale markets in Ireland that was notified on 18 June.

The European Commission has kick-started two new Industrial Alliances: the Alliance for Processors and Semiconductor technologies, and the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud.

Tomorrow, 17 July 2021, will mark the deadline for Member States to transpose the revised Directive on open data and reuse of public sector information into national law. The updated rules will stimulate the development of innovative solutions such as mobility apps, increase transparency by opening the access to publicly funded research data, and support new technologies, including artificial intelligence.

The Commission is launching infringement procedures against Hungary and Poland related to the equality and the protection of fundamental rights.

On 13 July the Economic and Financial Affairs Council adopted the Council Regulation on establishing the new European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).

Slovenia has joined the Living-in.EU movement. Boštjan Koritnik, Minister of Public Administration, signed the Join Boost Sustain declaration at the Slovenian Presidency Conference “EU as a Community of People” on 8 July 2021.