Legislating workplace AI remains on Commissionโs radar
Commission does not exclude AI in the workplace legislation with humans at the centre.
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Britain ditches AI declaration, pitches for cash
SNEAK PEEK โ As the AI Action Summit kicks off, the U.K. is tempted against signing its main declaration. โ Peter Kyle takes his investment pitch to Paris. โ Back at home, thereโs a backlash against the Home Office over encryption. Good Monday morning, This is Tom in Paris. You can get in touch with [โฆ]
Europe faces worrying skills shortages, says EU Commission
Labour gaps are especially acute in STEM sectors as well as in construction, transport, healthcare, and education, the Commission said.
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Europeโs AI competitiveness hinges on skills
The rapid rise of AI presents an opportunity to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness, but only if leaders act now to close persistent skills gaps in the workforce.
Victors in the race for emerging tech will determine future
Collectively, emerging technologies are creating an unstable world, where we donโt clearly understand what national security looks like.
5 things to know about EU tech security chief Henna Virkkunenโs hearing
Elon Musk and Europe’s tech gaps show the Finnish nominee has a major task at hand.
Green Skills for All: Embedding Sustainability Across Businesses [Promoted content]
The EU policy agenda is increasingly focusing on ensuring the long-term competitiveness of the EU. As such, addressing the current green and digital skills gap is becoming a priority, as highlighted in the Draghiโs report. Businesses are pivotal in thi…
Member states falling short of Digital Decade goals, shows latest European Commission report
The EU is falling short of meeting its 2030 digital targets, particularly in connectivity and digital skills, states the European Commission’s latest report on the State of the Digital Decade, released Tuesday (2 July).
Commission seeks to ease use of geo-tagged photos for farm checks
The EU executive proposed scrapping member states’ obligation to ensure that most farm monitoring is carried out using geo-tagged photos by 2027.
Youth unemployment hurts communities, its time for a new deal, says Andor [Advocacy Lab Content]
Youth unemployment stings and weakens communities, said Lรกszlรณ Andor, Former EU Commissioner for Employment. Andor called for new EU-level regulation to deal with the impact of the digital revolution on work.
Be Courageous, Confident, and Curious: Insights for Women in ICT [Promoted content]
Irina Varlan (Managing Director, GIGAEurope) shares lessons learnt when entering the Brussels Bubble, offers tips for women pursuing careers in predominately male sectors, and inspires us all to challenge ourselves by stepping outside of our comfort zone.
Digital sovereignty from an SME perspective
From technological dependency to a lack of skills, Europe’s digital SMEs face an uphill challenge in driving the EU’s digital sovereignty agenda.
Small companies are Europeโs โhidden championsโ, digital SME alliance chief says
Smaller technology companies are Europeโs โhidden championsโ that need to be connected to develop alternative solutions to the big tech companies, Secretary General of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance Sebastiano Toffaletti told Euractiv. For Toffalett…
DigiEduHack and the challenges of digital education
Taking stock of the COVID-19 pandemic, which showed the importance of digital skills, the Commission launched a digital skill initiative targeted to the youth – the annual Digital Education Hackathon event. The 2023 Digital Education Hackathon is…
AWS digital sovereignty pledge: A new, independent sovereign cloud in Europe
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a new, independent cloud for Europe, designed to help public-sector organizations and customers in highly-regulated industries meet their evolving sovereignty needs.
DIGITAL SME Summit โ Building European technological leadership [Promoted content]
Europe needs a new vision how to close the gap with its digital competitors. The DIGITAL SME Summit will demonstrate that this vision can only begin by putting SMEs, the majority of Europeโs industrial base, at the centre of all actions.
EU Digital Decade report shows gaps in digitalisation plans
The first report on the state of the Digital Decade was published on Wednesday (27 September), with key findings laying bare gaps in 5G network coverage and questions about the use of artificial intelligence by businesses. The EU’s objectives for…
Medicine information leaflets: Paper, digital or both?
The Commission’s proposed pharmaceutical strategy leaves the choice for countries to decide on whether the medicine information leaflet is in paper format electronic, or both. Moving towards the electronic version could risk leaving behind those …
EHDS: Boosting digital literacy crucial for success of EU health data plan
With almost half of Europeans lacking digital skills, there is an urgent need to boost digital literacy if the European Health Data Space (EHDS), set to be launched in 2025, is to be a success.
Europeโs message to workers: Retrain or fall behind
The bloc aims to retrain its workforce in response to technological and industrial innovations.
AI the next big challenge for the digital skills gap, EUโs Schmit says
Artificial Intelligence and related fields like cybersecurity will further fuel the growing need for highly qualified talents and basic digital skills in the European Union, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, told EURACTI…
How do we improve digital skills learning in schools?
Todayโs youngsters need access to digital education tools for their future careers, but a clear inequality in access across Europe is disadvantaging many, finds survey.
The Concept of a Virtual Registered Office for EU Law
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Bitฤ, Professor of Law at the Law School of Mykolas Romeris University
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Romashchenko, Senior Researcher of the Legal Technology Centre at the Law
School of Mykolas Romeris University
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