Top News After many hours of intense talks, the Irish Presidency, the European Parliament's negotiators and the European Commission have concluded negotiations on the Horizon 2020 package. The future EU funding program can now move forward: Good news for European research and innovation. Read more...  From now on, also Swiss citizens can use the epSOS project Patient Summary service when going to another epSOS (European patients Smart Open Services) piloting country. And there is more epSOS news - important with the summer vacation approaching! Read more... | Calendar (01/07/2013) Are cities and regions from your country leading the way in when it comes to Active & Healthy Ageing? On 1st July 2013, European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes will host an Award Ceremony to acknowledge 32 reference sites for putting innovative ideas into practice to bring concrete benefits to older people. The award ceremony is organized by DG SANCO and DG CONNECT, in the context of the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing. Among other high-level decision makers from each reference site, Edwin Poots, Minister of Health for Northern Ireland, Rocío Mosquera, Regional Health Minister for Galicia and Jon Darpón, Basque Government, will attend and present their local initiatives for healthy ageing. Documents Read more... (24/06/2013 — 28/06/2013) The Flagship course on European Programmes: Graphene and Human Brain project, falls within the summer activities of the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) in Santander (ES). Read more... (26/06/2013 — 26/06/2013) The Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and the Champalimaud Foundation's, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme have the pleasure of announcing a workshop entitled "New Brain Technologies: A roadmap for Portugal" Read more... (28/06/2013) The EU funded DECIPHER project is organizing its first Pre-Commercial Procurement Market Consultation Day for eHealth and mHealth solutions. It will take place on June 28th in conjunction with the MIHealth Forum event in Barcelona. The event will also be recorded and broadcasted online afterwards. Read more... | Policy  Vice President and Commissioner Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda for Europe) wrote a blog (in Dutch) about eHealth. It was published on the Artsennet website, a Dutch news site for doctors. 209 people from all over the globe participated in the online webinar on 20/06/2013 to kick off the EU-US eHealth Cooperation Initiative. During this webinar, US and EU officials talked about the state of play of transatlantic eHealth cooperation and what the plans are. On top of that, the participants were able to ask live questions. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here. Read more... | Research The young ambassadors will contribute to the event in different roles: Session reporters will be following selected conference sessions and write summaries of the highlights, which will be published on the blog; Conference highlighters will follow the conference and report online; Exhibition watchers will highlight the most attractive exhibits; Social media managers will help to coordinate the information and content produced by different ambassadors. Deadline Wednesday 3rd July 2013, 16:00 CET. ICT 2013 conference will feature top ICT professionals from industry, academia & research. Speakers from across the ICT sector will address a range of issues from cloud computing, broadband, ICT infrastructures, ICT skills, cyber security, long term visions on the future and much more. Experts will present details on how to participate in the next EU's Research Programme - Horizon 2020. | Subscription Information This is the newsletter of the eHealth web site on Europa. It is hosted by the Communications Networks, Content & Technologies Newsroom - a 'one stop shop' on European Communications Networks, Content & Technologies news spanning all Directorates-General of the European Commission. You may unsubscribe or broaden your subscription from this newsletter by going to Your Profile. | | |
