An Italian research centre has secured funding from Horizon 2020 for an ICT project.

The ARTEMIS Industry Association on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems, and ITEA 3 Co-summit 2015 in Berlin, Germany, has opened, focusing on the importance of software innovation.

Computer scientists at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, are leading a new Horizon 2020 research project to develop new ways to build and maintain IT systems that use Big Data on the web.

The Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG) has selected Markku Markkula as its new vice-chair.

A €3.6m project aimed at improving cloud networking and application deployment has accepted a new member to its research consortium.

The UK’s largest mobile phone company has announced a £1.5bn (~€2bn) investment designed to tackle the UK’s changing digital infrastructure needs.

Researchers from across Europe have won a €4m grant from Horizon 2020 to develop the first market-ready bell pepper harvester.

Ireland’s Centre for Data Analytics, known as INSIGHT, will this week propose a ‘Magna Carta for Data’ according to news reports.

The University of Glasgow has secured funding under Horizon 2020 for the development of an ultra-fast wireless data transfer.

A Swiss-led ICT project investigating human-machine technologies has won funding from Horizon 2020.

Two new global maps have been published and providing a significant step forward in global cropland information.

The European Commission has announced that Cinnober has been chosen to receive financial support to develop a real-time risk margining and multi-asset client clearing system for European and international banks.

The Joint Research Centre and Italian coastguard have together developed a new service to ensure the accuracy of ship positioning, which are reported using the Automatic Identification System (AIS).

Engineers at Lancaster University in the UK are to lead a project developing the world’s first W-band wireless system, which will lead to a greater availability of cost-effective, high-speed internet.

The European Commission has released details of a major workshop focusing on big data and Horizon 2020, due to take place in January.

EIT ICT Labs has announced it will open a new office in Eindhoven at the High Tech Campus on 11 December. The opening is being seen as an important step in the goal of driving ICT innovation in the Netherlands.

A Dutch project has won this year’s EIT Labs’ Idea Challenge Internet of Things (IoT) at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

European Robotics Week 2014 has begun with over 300 events showcasing current and upcoming technological breakthroughs.

Details have been released in anticipation for this year’s European Robotics Week.

Over 250 students from 35 different countries have begun their studies for the new academic year at the EIT ICT Labs Master School.