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EU4Digital launches action to support women mentorship programmes in tech in the Eastern partner countries

EU4Digital has launched a new activity for women mentorship programmes in the tech sector, with the aim of tackling the gender gap and to enable the national organisations to implement such programmes in their local tech markets. The gender gap in the tech market is a global issue, which also...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 16 December 2020
EU4Digital holds regional training on setting up National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs

The EU4Digital Facility organised a virtual training on the establishment and management of National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs on 13 July 2020. The objective of the training was to introduce participants to best EU practices for the establishment and management of National Coalitions...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 22 July 2020
EU eCommerce baseline report – a milestone towards facilitating cross-border eTrade between EU and Eastern partner countries

In June 2020, the EU4Digital Facility’s eCommerce team achieved a significant milestone, developing a baseline report on cross-border eCommerce in the EU, which provides a benchmark to assess the state of play of eCommerce in the Eastern partner countries. Later, this assessment will result in...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 22 July 2020
EU4Digital eHealth Network Meeting: focus on interoperability guidelines, cross-border eHealth collaboration platform and EU initiatives roadmap

The EU4Digital eHealth team is organising an online eHealth Network Meeting in September, which aims to bring together network members from the six Eastern partner countries to share key deliverables from activities in the eHealth stream. In the first part of the event, the EU4Digital eHealth team...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 22 July 2020
EU4Digital holds online consultations with partner countries regarding investment gaps and access to finance for high-tech start-ups

In early June 2020, the EU4Digital team held six rounds of online consultations with national stakeholders from the Eastern partner countries as part of its study on ‘Market assessment for the Digital Innovation and Scale-up Initiative (DISC study) in the Eastern partner countries’ . This study...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 22 July 2020
EU4Digital delivers country implementation action plans for key ICT innovation policy areas

The EU4Digital Facility has concluded a more than one-year-long work on supporting the six Eastern partner countries with recommendations for national policy instruments in selected priority policy areas of ICT innovation. The selected policy areas are: Intellectual property rights management for...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 22 July 2020
Digitising industry: best practices to promote the digital transformation of SMEs in traditional sectors of the economy

One of the central activities of the EU4Digital Facility in the area of ICT Innovation is supporting the establishment of a common legislative framework on ICT innovation in the Eastern Partnership region that would favour ICT innovation, based on EU norms and best practices. Working towards this...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 3 July 2020
Supporting digital innovation: how European ICT ecosystems can spark a new impetus in the Eastern Neighbourhood

In the past months, the EU4Digital Facility ICT Innovation team has been focusing its efforts to promote a common legislative framework in the Eastern Partnership region that would favour ICT innovation, based on EU norms and best practices. Working towards this objective, the EU4Digital Facility...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 3 July 2020
Managing intellectual property rights for digital innovation: meeting a key challenge for innovative SMEs

Ever since the late 19 th century, the world has recognised people’s right to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create, a principle so significant that intellectual property rights (IPR) are outlined as a fundamental right in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 3 July 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...

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EU4Digital Initiative posted news 3 July 2020