DG CONNECT and EACEA are organising a webinar targeting the news media industry and stakeholders to explain the different funding opportunities that the European Commission offers to the sector.

The Polish National Center for Research and Development invites interested bidders to submit offers for the following two pre-commercial procurements about: (1) Home water retention technologies, (2) Ventilation for schools and homes, (3) A combined heat and power plant in the local energy system,

The Andalusian ministry of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and sustainable development invites interested bidders to submit offers for its pre-commercial procurement. Objective is to develop a cloud based e-infrastructure innovation that facilitates the spatial integration of a broad set of environmental variables (vegetation, uses, climate, cadaster, natural risks, climate change scenarios, etc). Aim is also to create a wide range of tools for analysis of the data (machine learning, generation of indicators, geoprocesses, statistical analysis).

Healthcare buyers from Sweden, Spain, Denmark and Norway are joining forces in the CRANE buyers group to implement together a pre-commercial procurement. Aim is to trigger innovation across Europe to improve the comprehensive treatment of chronic diseases in rural areas. The Horizon 2020 funded CRANE project has just started beginning of June.

The Commission has just organised a workshop about innovation procurement in the field of health care that gathered a lot of participants. It provided an opportunity for information and discussion about:
- Horizon Europe and other EC funded actions that provide funding, assistance, tools or other forms of support for innovation procurement in the field of healthcare
- real-life case examples and experiences of procurers an companies from implementing innovation procurement in the field of health care.

On 22 June 2021 (14h00-16h00) the European Commission will organise an info session about how to successfully prepare a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) or Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) type proposal for the Horizon Europe programme. This online webinar session will explain what are the funding conditions for these funding instruments, how the evaluation and submission process works, and what are the novelties that were introduced compared to the previous Horizon 2020 programme based on lessons learnt of past projects. You can also ask questions before and during the webinar

Today, the Presidents of the three EU institutions, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission attended the official signing ceremony for the Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate, marking the end of the legislative process.

Interested in EU funding for your next innovation procurement? Get ready to prepare proposals for the 2021-2022 calls of the Horizon Europe programme. There are 266M EURO of funding opportunities for pre-commercial procurements (PCPs) and public procurements of innovative solutions (PPIs) in different fields: health, security, energy, climate change, ICT, AI, satellite and research infrastructures etc. This includes also an open PCP call that supports public buyers in any field of public sector activity to get new green digital solutions developed. The video recording and slide decks of the

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is continuing its efforts to complete the European supply value chain and develop a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe.

The Commission has published a €7.6 million call for journalism partnerships financed for the first time through an EU programme, Creative Europe.