The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity publishes the aggregated data and analysis of the incident reports for telecom services and trust services. Why is incident reporting important? The major objective of telecom services and trust services incident reporting is to help national authorities with their supervision tasks, to map cybersecurity trends as well crosscutting issues […]
EUROPEAN AGENDA: Internal Market & Industry
Europe is embarking on a transition towards climate neutrality and digital leadership. European industry can lead the way as we enter this new age, as it has done in the past. To this end, significant events are highlighted in this agenda: Upcoming meetings Institutions Meetings Date European Council Informal meeting of transport and energy ministers, […]
HORIZON EUROPE: ERA Chairs
Expected Outcome: Progress towards more and better links between research and innovation actors across European Research Area and beyond is a requirement if Europe as a whole is to capitalise on excellence from across the continent. To foster brain circulation for researchers and innovators the intervention point of the ERA Chairs actions is attracting in […]
One-stop-shops for building renovation
The renovation of buildings can bring economic and financial benefits while improving the health and wellbeing of owners, tenants and communities, and contributing to the targets and objectives of energy efficiency. In order to achieve a climate-neutral building stock, 90% of existing buildings in the EU with no renovation or superficial ‘shallow’ renovation should be […]
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Hardware Design for Edge Machine Learning Processors for IoT Sensors in Ireland
Offer description This postdoc position is available at the Internet of Things Engineering lab at UCD Dublin in collaboration with MCCI. UCD researchers are currently developing low complexity deep neural network (DNN) techniques for deployment in IoT-enabled edge sensors for biomedical, industrial applications. Current efforts are focused on achieving optimization via model compression, quantization, etc. […]
2021 Rule of Law Report
The European Commission has published the second EU-wide Report on the Rule of Law with a Communication looking at the situation in the EU as a whole and dedicated country chapters on each Member State. The 2021 report looks at the new developments since last September, deepening the assessment of issues identified in the previous report and taking […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Teaming for Excellence
Expected Outcome: Disparities in R&I performance are due to, among other reasons, the insufficient critical mass of science and lack of centres of excellence having sufficient competence to engage countries and regions strategically in a path of innovative growth. Teaming is responding to this challenge establishing new centers of excellence or modernising existing ones with […]
EU-UK relations: Commission proposes draft mandate for negotiations on Gibraltar
The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation for a Council decision authorising the opening of negotiations for an EU-UK agreement on Gibraltar. The Commission also presented its proposal for negotiating guidelines. It is now for the Council to adopt this draft mandate, after which the Commission can begin formal negotiations with the United Kingdom. Gibraltar […]
EU research shows COVID-19 poised to end progress on gender equality
The social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis threaten to roll back recent progress in gender equality, including an overall trend of upward convergence. Despite slow progress in some areas over the past decade, crucial improvements had been made in countries with lower levels of gender equality. The regressive consequences of COVID-19 on gender […]