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Apply for the European Broadband Awards 2017
You are involved in a project that is providing citizens with access to high-speed broadband internet? Apply for the European Broadband Award 2017!
Smart Cities Partnership – Innovation for E-Service
Following a comprehensive relaunch of the journal “Information on Spatial Development”, the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) devoted the first new issue to the subject of “Smart Cities”.
aconium contributed in the journal by sharing its expertise in the field of smart cities as well as the experience form the transnational project in the North Sea Region “Smart Cities – better life?”. Please find a summary here:
Launch of the fifth call for infrastructure projects
The fifth call for applications for the funding of infrastructure projects under the federal broadband funding program starts today.
Midway seminar of the Erasmus+-funded project Colibri (“Collaboration for Better, Personalized and IT-Supported Teaching”)
Colibri, an Erasmus+ funded project, aims to improve the quality of academic offering through innovative teaching methods. It takes place in three consecutive years, offering one-semester courses for students from seven universities from all over Europe. This year´s midway seminar from 18 to 22 April in Barcelona supported the collaboration between as well as the personal guidance of the students.
Handover of funding decision in Berlin
The Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) Norbert Barthle handed over 34 funding decisions for funds from the billion-euro federal program for broadband expansion on Monday, 25.04.2017 in Berlin. Municipalities and districts in structurally weak areas will receive up to 50,000 euros to fund planning services for the preparation of gigabit networks. In a second step, the BMVI will award up to 15 million euros per project to promote the implementation of expansion projects.
In Düsseldorf: First meeting of G20 digital ministers
For the first time in the almost 20-year history of the G20, a meeting of digital ministers took place on April 6 and 7, 2017. Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Brigitte Zypries invited the ministers for digitalization in the G20 countries, international organizations such as the OECD, WTO and UNCTAD as well as the host countries the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore and Spain to Düsseldorf. The theme of the meeting was “Digitalization: Policies for a Digital Future”.
Infrastructure projects in the Ukraine
Last week Tim Brauckmüller, managing director of Breitbandbüro des Bundes, visited the Ukrainian capital Kiev as a delegation member of German Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
East Germany discusses support for structurally weak regions
In Bad Muskau, Saxony, the East German Minister Presidents are meeting today to discuss the future promotion of structurally weak regions.
Development of future hydrogen projects
On Wednesday, 3rd March, aconium participated at a meeting regarding the launch of HyTrEc 2 in Brussels.
Groundbreaking ceremony for fast internet in Waldbreitbach
On behalf of the Wiedtal and all 162 districts near Neuwied, the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of the digital infrastructure in the region took place today in Waldbreitbach, in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Groundbreaking ceremony in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg
The ground-breaking ceremony for the expansion of the fiber optic network took place today in Löffingen in the Black Forest.
State Secretary Rainer Bomba hands over funding decision for Maintal
Today, Rainer Bomba, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), presented the town of Maintal (Main-Kinzig district) with a funding decision for funds from the billion-euro federal funding program for broadband expansion.