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The Commission has just published the results of a study for greener cloud services and data centres. Results show that energy consumption of data centres in EU Member States is expected to increase from 2.7% of the electricity demand in 2018 to 3.2% by 2030. The study provides technical and policy options to limit this increase.

This study addresses the issue of growing energy consumption due to the expansion of cloud services in Europe.

The EU funding program COSME provides EUR 5 million funding for transnational consortia with minimum 2 public buyers to implement public procurement of innovation solutions (PPI). The call is open to proposals that are interested to deploy innovative solutions for any domain of public sector activity (health, digital, climate, transport, education, energy etc.). The deadline for submission of proposals for the 1st and 2nd stage of the evaluation process is 19/01/2021 and 08/06/2021 respectively.

MIVB-STIB invites interested bidders to participate in the open market consultation for its Muntstroom pre-commercial procurement. The aim is to develop novel data driven solutions for smart predictive monitoring of people flow, for use cases including transport, COVID-19 and security analytics. A Living Lab is envisaged for testing the solutions in the Brussels Capital Region. The solutions are needed for the Collection, Combination, Storage, Analysis of and Smart Access to people flow-data. Register to the 19/11/20 webinar before 18/11/20 and complete the OMC questionnaire by 4/12/20.

The first online meeting with supporters of the Living-in.EU (LI.EU) movement took place on 22 October 2020. Supporters of the movement coming from a range of organisations across the EU (NGOs, research institutes, companies and associations) were briefed on the progress to date in implementing the commitments of the “Join, Boost, Sustain” Declaration, and discussed ideas on how they can contribute to the LI.EU movement.

As “5G’s great potential brings some security challenges”, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity – ENISA – has published a study on the “Threat landscape for 5G networks” as well as contributed to the “EU 5G Toolbox”. In this video interview, Dr. Louis Marinos, ENISA Senior Risk Management Expert, explains the key measures and recommendations for creating and running secure 5G networks.

Pula municipality launched a pre-commercial procurement to develop innovative solutions: Firstly, to equip lagoon outlets with an intelligent structural system aimed at making them safe from hydrogeological risks and limiting the decrease in fish stocks. Secondly, to enable continuous monitoring of physical, chemical and biological descriptors and their correct processing, with dynamic forecasts about the productive and environmental structure of the lagoon. The pre-commercial procurement is co-financed from the European Regional Development Funds. Submission deadline: 30/11/2020

With more than 150 participants in an interactive Zoom session hosted by ENoLL, the third plenary meeting of the Living-in.eu movement held on 29 September 2020 was a big success.
The chair Eddy Hartog and his colleagues had the pleasure to host more than 60 cities, partially signatories of the political declaration Living.-in.eu but also some guest cities from the Intelligent Cities Challenge programme, the organisations behind the initiative ENoLL, Eurocities, OASC, the Committee of the Regions and several services of the European Commission.