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07/04/2023
EU Code Week 2023
Every year, EU Code Week celebrates and promotes the importance of digital literacy and coding skills among people of all ages and backgrounds. Activities are ongoing throughout the year, but two weeks are set aside that are specifically designated as Code Week – this year, 7-22 October.
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06/04/2023
EU4Digital and INATBA event supports Eastern Partnership blockchain development and international cooperation
EU4Digital ICT Innovation hosted an online networking event on 30 March 2023 to support the development of a blockchain ecosystem in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region. Blockchain associations, industry players, key innovation ecosystem actors and EaP government representatives discussed opportunities to join and cooperate with the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) and its leading partnerships.
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23/03/2023
EU4Digital ICT Innovation Forum highlights digital education for upskilling SMEs and start-ups
The 2023 EU4Digital ICT Innovation Forum raised important questions about the future of education for businesses to better prepare them for our post-industrial, digital society. Stressing the importance of digital upskilling of start-ups and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region, the online event on 9 March was the second in an annual Innovation Forum series and attracted more than 100 participants. They learned about diverse EU and EaP policy and support initiatives including the EU4Digital Academy activity, which was announced during the event.
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28/02/2023
Feedback welcome: Digital Decade performance indicators – deadline 13 March
The EC is inviting feedback on a draft act regarding key performance indicators (KPIs) of progress towards the Digital Decade policy programme 2030. These KPIs are to be used to measure underlying trends at the national as well as European level. Anyone wishing to participate is welcome to login via the EC information page and share their views before the deadline: midnight, Brussels time on 13 March 2023.
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23/02/2023
Digital skills in focus at Annual EU4Digital Start-ups and Innovation Forum 2023
The EU4Digital Facility will bring together key policy makers, leading start-up ecosystems organisations and experts in the area of digital innovation and startup ecosystem development in its 2023 Annual EU4Digital Start-ups and Innovation Forum. This high-level policy event will focus on ‘Digital technologies for the wide-reaching digital upskilling of SMEs in the Eastern Partnership’ (EaP). The event will be held remotely in the form of a virtual session on 9 March 2023.
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06/02/2023
‘Radical digital inclusion’ needed to support education and learning
From childhood to later life, the accumulation of knowledge and skills enables people to develop and realise their potential and contribute to a productive society. The European Training Foundation (ETF) says a ‘radical digital inclusion’ mindset is required to ensure human capital development. Through various tools and initiatives, ETF is supporting digital inclusion policies and practices in its partner countries, including the Eastern Partnership region.
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17/01/2023
New step towards the Digital Decade: 2030 policy programme comes into force
The Digital Decade policy programme 2030 has entered into force. The European Parliament, Member States and the European Commission have jointly set concrete objectives and targets in four key areas in this strategic vision for the development of the digital economy.
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13/12/2022
EU to invest €4.5 billion in digital transformation for 2023-2024
To deliver on the European Union’s goals for digital transformation, more than €4.5 billion will be available in the 2023-24 Horizon Europe work programme - more than 33% of the total work programme budget.
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08/12/2022
Awareness to action: developing women’s entrepreneurship in the Eastern Partnership
Women’s entrepreneurship and innovation in Eastern partner countries was the focus of the Women 4 Digital Future virtual networking event on 28 November 2022, hosted by EU4Digital ICT Innovation.
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