It’s been more than two years since CONCORDIA launched the map displaying short courses and training for cybersecurity professionals. The recently released new version brings a new look, new fields and new content. In addition, every cybersecurity course provider can share and promote their course.

The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) and the European Investment Advisory Hub, a joint advisory initiative of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group and the European Commission, announced their participation in a feasibility study on the design and set-up of a European Cybersecurity Investment Platform (ECIP). The new platform is expected to attract more investment in the European cybersecurity market. The feasibility study will be carried out by the Advisory Hub together with experts from the EIB Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant. This public-private collaboration

The ICU4COVID consortium of German, Austrian, Greek and Portuguese ICU Hubs is giving away 100 000 EURO grants to other peripheral hospitals around Europe, i.e. hospitals that want to deploy the CPS4TIC telemedicine console and smart bedside and be integrated in one of the ICU Hubs. CPS4TIC is a Cyber-Physical System for Telemedicine and Intensive Care that results from the Thalea pre-commercial procurement. It was already deployed by the central ICU Hubs in the consortium in 2019-2020 in the Thalea II project and was used successfully during the Corona pandemic. The CPS4TIC ensures efficient

The PREVENT PCP buyers group intends to boost innovative solutions to increase security in public transport through automatic detection and identification of of unattended items and perpetrators combined with advanced crisis management. The iProcureSecurity PCP buyers group is looking for innovative triage management systems for emergency medical services in security situations. Both buyers groups receiving co-financing from the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

In 2017-2020, Tech4Care developed and tested a virtual reality (VR) based system for stroke rehabilitation for a pre-commercial procurement led by healthcare organisations in Northern Ireland and Italy. This accelerated the internal R&D activity, boosted the company's growth and sustained the development of further digital health products, now available in the market. The solutions enables stroke patient to perform rehabilitation comfortably at home by means of a set of adaptive serious immersive VR games, with remote monitoring by clinical staff.

Over 25 organizations participated in the IN-4-AHA Open Call and five finalists have now been selected. The objective of IN-4-AHA Open Call was to facilitate the scalability of innovative solutions in active and healthy ageing across EU and provide testing opportunities and business coaching for innovative and scalable solutions.

The EU funded innovative project selfBACK is helping sufferers of lower back pain stay on track with their therapy thanks to an app using an artificial intelligence decision support system.

The European Commission is looking for novel blockchain solutions for the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure. The procurement contracts have been awarded to 7 contractors and the first phase of solution design is ongoing.

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) announced the creation of the “SecureSME Tool”: a practical and user-friendly tool facilitating SMEs to navigate to ENISA’s tips, guidelines and recommendation.

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.