Today's mobile networks need to be fast. Speed is not only necessary between the radio towers and the users' smartphones, tablets or laptops… the radio towers must also have a fast connection to the internet and the network's backbone (backhaul link), otherwise they become a bottleneck and cannot receive and re-transmit the videos or music the users wish to watch or listen to. Ideally, the thousands of radio towers/rooftop antennas would be connected via fibre optic cables.

The European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC) has partnered with EUROCARERS to launch a new online database of digital services for carers of older people. This new tool offers access to 78 good practices of digital services for older care at home, which the JRC gathered and that EUROCARERS, the European network representing informal carers and their organisations, helped make available to all.

The online catalogue featuring the exhibitors present at ICT 2015 is now published.

During the 3-day event (20-22 October 2015 in Lisbon), an interactive exhibition will dynamically showcase the best-in-class results of the existing European ICT Research & Innovation; advanced products from individual companies that started, have grown and benefited from European funding, and much more.

As part of the EAST-HORIZON project, "Fostering Dialogue and Cooperation between the EU and EECA in the HORIZON 2020 perspective," the Academy of Sciences in Moldova is proud to announce that the Second H2020 ICT Open Training Event will be held on 14-15 September 2015 in Chisinau, Moldova.

The present call invites proposals to continue the test implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) tool. The MPM is designed to identify potential risks to media pluralism in Member States. The initial tool was first created in 2009.

The Commission is launching a €1 million hunt to find out how crowdsourcing or other innovative solutions can reduce the costs of obtaining subtitles and increase the exposure of European films in video on demand (VOD) services available in the EU. Applications are open until 25th September for projects to run in 2016.

The Innovation Radar published its first survey, after analysing 279 projects funded by two European research programmes. These projects produced 517 innovations, mostly related to data processing or software development.

The European Commission is challenging European innovators to come up with a food scanner, an ICT-based solution to measure and analyse people's food intake, and win a Horizon Prize. Participants will compete to develop the most innovative and affordable solution. This €1 million prize will be split into a maximum of three awards: € 800,000 will go to the winner and € 100,000 each to the first and second runner-ups.

The Brochure published recently summarise the first successes of the ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) Initiative.