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  • The Agency’s main goal is to create value for the Paris Region by helping Parisian companies to create international partnerships and assisting international companies to establish a presence in the Paris region.
The Agency has recently established an office in Tel Aviv to assist Israeli companies that would like:
1-Develop a technological partnership with a Parisian counterpart
2-Set up an activity or develop a presence in the Paris region and benefit from the numerous advantages the Region has to offer. Source office-fr

  • Many citizens already have a way to identify themselves electronically and reliably at home, namely with the national electronic ID, but they cannot yet use that tool in the same way across Europe as their eID is not recognised in another country. For authorising an online transaction in a country or across Europe, the eSignatures Directive has been providing since years the legal framework but its use is still too limited as it is perceived to be rather complicated and missing the following key elements for today’s online world:
    - The lack of interoperability and capability coupled with a guarantee on the appropriate use of...

  • (8 December 2011) The European Commission has today updated spectrum harmonisation conditions for short-range devices (SRD) in the internal market. SRDs play an important role in the daily life of citizens. Numerous applications such as alarms, door openers, medical devices, but also local communications equipment such as Wi-Fi routers, rely on these low power radio transmitters. The newly harmonised licence-exempt frequency bands can be used by intelligent transport systems, vehicle radars and for non-specified purposes. >...

  • European Commission proposes EUR 80 billion investment in research and innovation, to boost growth and jobs.
    For the first time, Horizon 2020 brings together all EU research and innovation funding under a single programme. It focuses more than ever on turning scientific breakthroughs into innovative products and services that provide business opportunities and change people’s lives for the better. At the same time it drastically cuts red tape, with simplification of rules and procedures to attract more top researchers and a broader range of innovative businesses.
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  • The European Commission has proposed to spend almost EUR 9.2 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects to give EU citizens and businesses access to high-speed broadband networks and the services that run on them. The funding, part of the proposed Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), would take the form of both equity and debt instruments and grants. It would complement private investment and public money at local, regional and national level and EU structural or cohesion funds. At least EUR 7 billion would be available for investment in high-speed broadband infrastructure....