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This virtual event provided participants with the chance to brainstorm emerging Internet of Things (IoT) concepts, pitch their ideas and exchange knowledge with leading research organisations and innovators from industry.

The 5th (and last) workshop of the B2G data sharing in cities series of workshops aimed to draw conclusions from the series of meetings and put forward recommendations for future activities. The workshop was attended by around 40 participants from cities and communities as well as Commission services, and was moderated by Lodewijk Noordzij from Eurocities.

People, traffic, water and air pollution all flow across borders, so must digital solutions. The 6th Meeting of Living-in.EU Signatories took place on the 9th July 2021 and focused on Cross-border cooperation for smart regions, cities and communities.

In June 2021, DG CNECT’s robotics and artificial intelligence unit organised a series of workshops to further refine the concept of testing and experimentation facilities for artificial intelligence with the help of the invited experts and national delegations.

The SME survey on multilingual websites aimed to further analyse the language barriers across the EU.

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.

The members of the Alliance to better protect minors online met online on 29 June 2021. The main objectives of the meeting was to exchange information on recent developments such as the Commission Proposals: on Artificial Intelligence and on a European Digital Identity. A concept for the BIK Youth Pledge Phase 2.0 was also presented.

This webinar was organized by DIHNET, Vanguard and BOWI on 29 June 2021. EDIH consortia could learn about the EDIH Heatmap, a structure to discuss the strengths and gaps in the consortium and to develop a competence profile.

Platform signatories of the Code of Practice on Disinformation continue reporting about measures and tools to limit COVID-19 and vaccine disinformation.

For years, cities and communities have been raising their voices about the importance of privately held data for their city management; to know where traffic flows are, where tourists come from or what consumer purchasing patterns are in certain parts of town. These data are regularly collected by companies, but for various reasons, are often not shared or not shared in a format useful for policy-making. Research shows that some approaches already exist to tap into such data, but they are often sub-optimal and do not scale up. A series of business-to-government (B2G) workshops are organised to