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.

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.

The TIQUE Buyers Group of healthcare providers from Spain, Italy and Sweden have identified a common need for the transformation of health and care services for patients with advanced heart failure and co-existing chronic conditions, frail or at risk of becoming frail. They invite potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation of their upcoming pre-commercial procurement that aims to develop and test integrated care approaches to treatment for those patients. The consultation takes place in the form of online meetings between 7 October and 4 November 2021.

A group of healthcare buyers from Sweden, Norway and Spain invites potentially interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for their upcoming Carematrix pre-commercial procurement. Objective is to trigger testing and development of new solutions to anticipate and address the needs of people suffering from multimorbititiy, by ensuring timely service access, co-managed care journeys and transitions between specialties and sectors. The open market consultation takes place as a combination of an RFI, questionnaire and webinars between November-December 2021.

The Canarias islands government has launched a prior announcement for its MEDP-BIG DATA pre-commercial procurement, which aims to create to a "big data for personalized medicine" system. This includes two challenges: a direct information exchange interface - assisted by an artificial intelligence bot - patient / healthcare system - and a clinical decision support system of each individualized and stratified patient; both supported on an intelligent platform that serves both the care of the specific patient and the generation of scientific knowledge for collective use. Aim is to improve

The Brussels intercommunal transport operator, MIVB-STIB, invites interested bidders to submit offers for its Muntstroom pre-commercial procurement. The aim is to develop novel data driven solutions for smart predictive monitoring of people flows, outdoor as well as indoor. A Living Lab is envisaged for testing the solutions in the Brussels Capital Region. Solutions are needed for the Collection, Combination, Storage, Analysis of and Smart Access to people flow-data. Register to the 28/9/21 webinar for more information about the call for tenders. Deadline for submission of offers: 29/10/2021

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 Commission has 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.