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The 10th edition of the European Cybersecurity Month, this year titled “Think Before U click – I choose to be safe online”, starts today.

The Commission has published the 2022 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard, which reveals that the EU's innovation performance has grown by about 10% since 2015. Compared to 2021, innovation performance in 2022 has improved for 19 Member States, and declined for eight.

The municipality of Patmos (Greece), located in the southern Aegean Sea and famous for the vision of John as found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, is one of the proud winners of the second WiFi4EU call.

The InterConnect large scale pilot cuts across innovation in digital and energy markets, integrating appliances and systems into smart homes, buildings and grids.

The Virtual and Augmented Reality Industrial Coalition has developed a roadmap outlining the next steps for VR/AR in Europe endorsed by the Commission over 40 EU organisations operating and investing in these technologies.

After several trials, the municipality of Candelaria, in the Spanish island of Tenerife, won a WiFi4EU voucher in the fourth and last call of the project.

This week, the European Commission signed an agreement to associate Ukraine to the Digital Europe Programme. From now on, Ukrainian businesses, organisations, and public administrations will be able to access the calls from the Digital Europe Programme, which has an overall budget of €7.5 billion for the 2021-2027 period.

The European Union has opened its new office in San Francisco, California, a global centre for digital technology and innovation. The office will reinforce the EU's cooperation with the United States on digital diplomacy and strengthen the EU's capacity to reach out to key public and private stakeholders, including policy makers, the business community, and civil society in the digital technology sector.

Nine EU-funded films will be featured at the 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, which opened its doors on Wednesday and will run until 10 September.

The 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival will take place from 31 August until 10 September 2022, with the participation of 9 EU-supported films under the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. MEDIA will also host 3 events under the theme ‘Europe in Focus’ at Venice Production Bridge.