12/02/2024
Resilience and digital transformation: Ukrainian universities in times of war
The digital technologies that support research and education (R&E) have been facing wartime challenges in Ukraine. Here, URAN Association—an EU4Digital: Connecting Research and Education Communities (EaPConnect) project partner—provides specialist services to the country’s R&E institutions, including Kherson Technical University (KNTU). The long collaboration between the two organisations has only grown stronger during the past two years, leading to new plans for growth.
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28/07/2020
Ukrainian IT industry: looking for further growth and opening opportunities for women
The Ukrainian IT market has recently been growing by 30% a year. But the “digital boom” is accompanied by various challenges: brain drain, more complex regulation, gender gap and weak support infrastructure for new projects. However, this can be improved by local industry leaders, as well as Kyiv’s partners from the European Union.
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27/07/2020
Embracing a career in IT: how support for ICT Innovation is reversing the brain drain in Moldova and setting an example in the region
Information technology has become increasingly present in the Republic of Moldova in recent years. As both public and business have adopted innovations, so external partners have also contributed to the digital transformation in the country, with projects such as the European Union’s EU4Digital initiative.
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23/07/2020
How women can change the field of innovation in Georgia
Just 12% of women in Georgia are employed in science, technology and engineering, but increasing numbers are getting involved as Georgia develops its innovation ecosystems with the help of partners like the European Union.
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03/07/2020
Digitising industry: best practices to promote the digital transformation of SMEs in traditional sectors of the economy
As part of its efforts to support the establishment of a common legislative framework on ICT innovation in the Eastern Partnership region, EU4Digital has analysed EU best practices in the area of Digitising industry (digital transformation of SMEs in traditional sectors), selected as a priority policy area in Belarus.
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24/06/2020
Supporting digital innovation: how European ICT ecosystems can spark a new impetus in the Eastern Neighbourhood
EU4Digital has developed a review of EU best practices in the area of 'New organisational forms for supporting ICT Innovation', selected as a priority policy area in Azerbaijan, but with a particular resonance for the whole region.
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12/06/2020
‘We want as many women and girls as possible to embrace an IT career’ – empowering women in technology in Moldova
An IT empowerment programme is helping women and girls in Moldova to prepare for careers in tech.
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25/05/2020
Managing intellectual property rights for digital innovation: meeting a key challenge for innovative SMEs
The EU4Digital ICT innovation team has performed a gap analysis in the policy area of IPR management for digital innovations in Armenia, based on EU best practices, to be followed by tailored policy recommendations and an action plan for their implementation.
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17/04/2020
EaPConnect partners support research and education during the COVID-19 pandemic
With researchers racing to understand COVID-19, and with people working and studying from home in many countries, national research and education network (NREN) organisations are providing tools and services to support these activities, with the help of EaPConnect
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10/04/2020
Innovation ecosystems for start-ups: highlighting the key ingredients for success
What makes a good digital innovation ecosystem for start-ups? What are the key ingredients and how can they be brought together to optimise ICT innovation among businesses? These are the key questions that EU4Digital has been addressing in its review of EU best practices in ‘ICT innovation ecosystems for start-ups and scale-ups’.
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17/03/2020
Access to finance for digital innovation: what are the key steps to bridge the gap with the EU?
What are the gaps between the Eastern Partnership countries and the European Union in the area of access to finance for digital innovation SMEs? The EU4Digital Facility highlights EU best practices, on the basis of which gap analysis, policy recommendations and an action plan will be drawn up for Georgia and Ukraine.
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17/03/2020
EaPConnect: supporting academic publishing in Ukraine
The publication of scientific results has many benefits and digital publishing takes it all to a higher level, with support from the EaP project in Ukraine
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11/12/2019
Renaissance music techniques meet cutting edge technology to connect Armenia and Italy
The story of how partners in the EU-funded Eastern Partnership Connect (EaPConnect) project created a musical bridge between Venice and Yerevan with the help of low latency audio-video transmission technology and cutting-edge research and education networks.
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