The Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission launches a call for applications concerning the Strategic Advisory Group on the Destination Earth initiative.
The Commission and Japanese partners have successfully collaborated in research and innovation projects on the challenges associated with population ageing.
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Future is going into high gear with the launch of a call for external evaluators. This call is seeking experts to evaluate a series of diverse grants to be awarded by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) over the course of the EOSC Future project. The call will remain open for submissions until June 2023, experts will be called on to evaluate grant applications as soon as October 2021.
17 EU-funded films have been nominated for awards at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which has opened its doors this week, for the first time in a physical format since 2019.
The aim of this study is to provide the Commission with evidence and analysis on the online advertising industry that could inform future policy options for safeguarding individual privacy and supporting the evolution of a more balanced online advertising ecosystem. This will be in the interests of individual consumers of online services and content, and of online businesses and particularly publishers (study reference: CNECT/2021/OP/0030).
Today, the Commission and current signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation launched a Joint Call inviting interested parties to manifest their interest in becoming signatories of the strengthened Code and getting involved in its preparation.
The European Commission has launched today an awareness campaign aiming at fostering gender diversity and inclusion in the film and news media industries. Launched at the Festival de Cannes and under the title ‘CharactHer’, the campaign will run until the end of the year to increase awareness of inequalities in the sectors.
The European Parliament has adopted the regulation establishing the next Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme, which will support investments in Europe's transport, energy and digital infrastructure networks with a budget of €33.71 billion for the 2021-27 period.
The EU pilot project SONAAR is looking for social media users willing to help testing this new accessibility feature for Android and Chrome
The GATEKEEPER project is an EU-funded initiative under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Its main objective is to create a GATEKEEPER that connects healthcare providers, businesses, entrepreneurs, elderly citizens and the communities they live in. This connection between stakeholders will promote an open, trust-based arena for matching ideas, technologies, user needs and processes, aimed at ensuring healthier independent lives for senior people.