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11 April 2013
Invitation to market participants to submit observations regarding the Commission's serious doubts letter under Article 7a of Directive 2002/21/EC - DE/2013/1430
The market participants can submit their observations for the Case "Call termination on individual public telephone networks at a fixed location in Germany" - DE/2013/1430[more]
11 April 2013
Commission welcomes Member States' endorsement of EU Open Data rules
The European Commission welcomes endorsement by the EU Council's 'Coreper' committee (EU Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives) of the Commission's effort to open-up public sector data for re-use across Europe.[more]
11 April 2013
European Commission halts German plans to set fixed termination rates 3-times above EU-average
The European Commission has blocked a proposal by the German Telecoms Regulator (BNetzA) to set fixed termination rates three times (300%) higher than the average of countries which follow the recommended approach set out in EU...[more]
11 April 2013
AALIANCE2 Project workshop: Reference Designs for Integrated Applications
The workshop will focus on reference architectures and AAL middleware. Many projects have in the last few years developed AAL runtime environments and middleware solutions that aim at being reusable “AAL operating...[more]
11 April 2013
ICT for Societal Challenges: new publication on research and innovation projects
This booklet highlights some of the many EU initiatives and co-funded research and innovation projects which address societal challenges through digital innovation, such as better healthcare, independent living for the elderly,...[more]
10 April 2013
Open Innovation 2.0 Conference - practical information
Practical information: transport and accomodation[more]
10 April 2013
Open Innovation 2.0 Conference - agenda
The European Commission, Open Innovation and Strategy Policy Group, Intel Labs Europe, Dublin City, Trinity College, and many other stakeholders co-organise the unique working conference Open Innovation 2.0: Sustainable Economy &...[more]
9 April 2013
Burn Fat not Energy
Watch the FUTURIS video on how EU research project SPORTE2 helps sports centres save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.[more]
9 April 2013
Progress and Findings in the Harmonisation of EU-US Security and Communications Standards in the field of Cooperative Systems: EU-US Task Force - Reports from HTG1 and HTG3
Joint standardisation of Cooperative Systems (V2V and V2I) is a core objective of the EU-US cooperation on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). In 2012, two Harmonisation Task Groups worked in parallel on analyses of security...[more]
9 April 2013
Call for tenders: Seminar for National Judges: Broadband deployment & Spectrum Management in the Digital Single Market: from Policy to Judicial Control
The European Commission will soon launch a call for tenders for a service contract of a maximum value of EUR 19.000. The purpose of this call for tenders is the organisation of the 8th Seminar for National Judges, which will...[more]