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.

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 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, at the Cannes Film Festival, the Commission is launching an awareness campaign aimed at fostering diversity and inclusion in the film and news media industries and at highlighting gender equality and the role of women in the sector. The campaign, titled ‘CharactHer', is the first initiative with a clear focus on diversity and inclusion launched under the framework of the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan.

The Commission and the signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation are launching a joint call today inviting interested parties to become signatories of the strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation. New signatories are expected to help shape the revised Code together with current signatories.

The Assembly of the signatories of the Code of Practice has officially kicked off the process of drafting the strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation.

The EC-funded H2020 project DIH-HERO fights against Covid-19 with an emergency call for projects (one-week deadline) to boost robotic solutions that can be deployed quickly in the healthcare sector.

Mountain regions have much to gain from digitalisation and broadband connectivity. There is great potential for Smart Villages, SMEs, and access to online services in healthcare, education and much more. Mountain communities, however, face greater obstacles than most in becoming full participants in the European Union’s Digital Decade. Their remoteness, in terms of distance and topography, combined with smaller populations, make them technically and financially challenging to reach with broadband infrastructure.

The second meeting of Living-in.EU supporters took place on 29 June 2021. The focus of the meeting was the Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms Plus (MIMs Plus) and featured speakers from the European Commission, Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC), FIWARE, NEC, DKSR and others.

This one-hour online workshop is dedicated to WiFi Installation Companies involved in the WiFi4EU initiative. Its objective is to answer their questions in order to help overcome hurdles and accelerate network deployment. This workshop is an important opportunity in view of the approaching deadline, which risks the loss of municipalities’ € 15,000 WiFi4EU vouchers.