So glad to see leaders in action to shape the future of the 🇪🇺 budget!
A 25% allocation for digital, prioritizing critical technologies like #AI and quantum, is a step forward to safeguard critical infrastructure and incentivize #criticaltech
👉Read more: https://t.co/KpOtLMFe4e
Good meeting with @EU_Budget's Director General @riso_stephanie to chat about the need for an 🇪🇺 budget fit for the digital age.
One in which we have to invest in and master critical technologies like #AI or quantum to protect our critical infrastructure: hospitals, banks, water plants...
To increase funding and ensure it reaches where it's needed faster, we must facilitate better incentives and simpler processes. #EuropeCan do it!
👋🇫🇷 Hello, Strasbourg!
No better place to be today than in the @Europarl_EN HQ at the same time of this EU mandate’s first plenary session.
We are gathering with our members to see what’ll take for the 🇪🇺 to become #aDigitalPowerhouse by 2030.
Can we? We say YES 💪.
How can the EU win the global tech race if 60% of EU enterprises struggle to fill ICT roles? Public-private cooperation, labour mobility, coherent governance on skills policy are some of @DIGITALEUROPE 's solutions to close #DigitalSkills gap. Read more👉https://t.co/QssCPe34FM
Strong emphasis on the need for increased R&I cooperation in biomass and bioeconomy today at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU. #HU24EU#R&I #Priorities
🚴🏻 Happy #WorldBicycleDay!
🌿 Bicycles help us pedal into a more sustainable future by reducing emissions. So does #technology.
🤔 Did you know digital solutions can cut 2️⃣0️⃣% of global #emissions by 2030?
Now you do 👇
https://t.co/e5LfendVs4
😟 Only 7️⃣% of the current EU funds are dedicated to innovation & #digital.
☝️ We can only become #aDigitalPowerhouse if we ramp our investments in digital.
🧰 That's exactly why we hosted experts to shape an EU long-term #budget that invests in the future, not the past.
Thrilled to join the panel on corporate R&D strategies and EU's competitiveness today! Presented @DIGITALEUROPE's publication, "The Download - Funding EU's Digital Transition," highlighting the crucial need to maximise the EU budget and explore beyond it 👉https://t.co/cVNpWgaH4s
Discussions on the future of Horizon Europe Programme have started at the #RIWeek2024. MEP @mgracacarvalho underlines the need to keep up the pace of increase of the budget of the last years and to improve the link between basic research and deployment.
What do Verona & Trento have in common? Right! Both are in 🇮🇹.
But also: both are hosting this week's discussions on global #AI governance among digital ministers from the world's 7️⃣ largest economies, aka @G7.
What do we expect to be front and center?🧵
#G7Italy
🔴 Only 12% of #AI researchers
🔴 Only 22% of tech policymakers
🔴 Only 24% of cyber professionals
On #InternationalWomensDay, let’s talk about why we need more women driving Europe’s digital transformation.
💡Industry involvement in R&I is crucial for EU's innovation & competitiveness. @DIGITALEUROPE urges €200B #HEU#FP10 Budget, industry incentives, balanced TRLs and improved funding coordination. Read more 👉https://t.co/Ph0VCfLgfc #Innovation#investments
Insightful panel on digital innovation in finance today, covering digital payments, assets, and the ECB's plans for a #DigitalEuro. Kudos to Director Vincenzo Renda for skillfully moderating the discussion! #MoD2024#aDigitalPowerhouse
Full house for 🇧🇪’s PM at #MoD2024 but more is yet to come! Stay tuned for more exciting discussions on competitiveness, digital, innovation and connectivity! @DIGITALEUROPE#aDigitalPowerhouse
🇧🇪’s Prime Minister @alexanderdecroo opening #MoD2024 with key elements for the five next 5 years of EU policy: connectivity, capital market union, security, governance, skilled & dynamic workforce, entrepreneurship and R&I.“Digital is the central nervous system of our society”