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.

In a major effort to improve existing skills and training in new ones, the European Commission is launching a Pact for Skills.

This study presents a roadmap of the emerging technologies impacting the global electronic value chain. It also identifies the main emerging Micro-Nano Electronics (MNE), Smart Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) technologies and forecasts their economic impact in short and midterm on the different end-user segments. It assesses which of these technologies are the most critical technologies for the EU and are therefore suggested to be supported by the European Commission and the follow-up Joint Undertaking in the context of Horizon Europe.

Taking the momentum of the European Commission launching the new EU growth strategy, the European Green Deal, over 120 project representatives and policymakers gathered at the Workshop “Innovative services and products for the circular economy” organised by EASME in Brussels. This workshop gathered important insights to feed the current policymaking, days before the publication of the new Circular Economy Action plan and the New Industrial Strategy for Europe.

The present working paper summarizes selected findings of the macro-economic simulations conducted as part of the study "Shaping the digital transformation in Europe", which assess the potential impact of disruptive digital technologies on the economy and society in the EU and its member states. The study is carried out by McKinsey & Company on behalf of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect).

An EU funded project, EoT, which designed an embedded vision platform for mobile applications such as wearables, drones, smart toys and video surveillance, has received the ECS Innovation Award 2019 at the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems in Helsinki.

Bioelectronics and micro-nano-bio systems (MNBS) activities bring together a range of key enabling technologies such as micro and nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, biomaterials, photonics and ICT to develop miniaturised, intelligent, communicating devices for biological-related applications. This report covers the main activities and outcome of the workshop.

The EU-funded project SNIFFPHONE has developed a system that can identify whether someone has stomach cancer by analysing exhaled gases using a compact handheld sensor device that is plugged into a smartphone.