e-Schools project from Croatia was awarded as the best project in the Inclusive Growth – Skills & Education for a Digital Europe category, proving the importance of a comprehensive approach to implementing modern technology, digital contents and support that enables every student to have an equal chance for education, regardless of where they are.

VERN’s lecturers have joined a global network of experts from American, British, Portuguese, Romanian and other numerous European universities and institutions.

Hrvoje Belani, M.Sc., and Igor Ljubi, M.Sc., are engaged as researchers in the international project "Interdisciplinary Network on Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments" which is part of a new COST action aimed at cooperation between academic and business communities. Building a scientific research network of associates, devising smart solutions that will make life easier for the elderly.

At its introductory conference of 7 October, HEP-Operator distribucijskog sustava d.o.o. (HEP ODS) presented Smart Grid Pilot Project, which was co-financed from EU funds. The total value of the project amounts to HRK 176.83 m, HRK 149.95 m, i.e. 85% of which are secured from the European Regional Development Fund, granted under the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014 – 2020, i.e. Specific Objective 4d1.

HEP's network of ELEN car chargers covers the area of ​​all 20 counties and the City of Zagreb, as well as all motorways and other important road routes across Croatia, city centres and tourist destinations, including several islands. At HEP's electric car charger stations, more than 400 electric cars can be charged at the same time, ie half of all of the registered electric cars in Croatia.

Alongside the well-established Croatian high school graduates' interest in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing study programmes, there is a considerable number of foreign students who wish to continue their education at that faculty. For that reason, and as part of the International University Graduate Study Programmes in Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER-IN) project, three new graduate study programmes in English were developed, already scheduled to enrol the first generation of students in the 2012-20 academic year.

Ericsson technology is powering Vodafone UK’s just-launched Standalone 5G network at Coventry University, the first live Standalone 5G network in the UK.

The Standalone 5G network will be used to trial virtual reality learning to support training for student nurses and allied health professionals.

• 190 million 5G subscriptions forecast by end of 2020; 2.8 billion by the end of 2025
  
• Digital infrastructure critical to meeting communication needs in times of crisis
  
• Fixed wireless access (FWA) connections forecast to reach close to 160 million, and account for 25 percent of global mobile network data traffic by end of 2025

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) expects the global number of 5G subscriptions to top 190 million by the end of 2020 and 2.8 billion by the end of 2025. These forecasts are included in the June 2020 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, along with projections for data traffic growth, and regional subscriptions.

The report also takes an incisive look at the role of networks and digital infrastructure in keeping societies running, and families connected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PBZ Card today brings its customers Premium Visa cardholders, including Premium Visa Gold, Premium Visa Platinum, Premium Visa Infinite and Visa Business Platinum cardholders, Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that's fast and convenient.
Security and privacy is at the core of Apple Pay. When you use a credit or debit card with Apple Pay, the actual card numbers are not stored on the device, nor on Apple servers. Instead, a unique Device Account Number is assigned, encrypted and securely stored in the Secure Element on your device. Each transaction is authorized with a one-time unique dynamic security code.

By the strategic decision of the owner and founder of InfoDom Slavko Vidović, members of the Management Board of InfoDom Zagreb became three long-term experts and employees who participated in all important projects and their development. Hrvoje Sagrak was appointed as President of the Management Board, and Ivan Barbarić and Goran Marković were appointed as members of the Management Board. The new Management continues the development of InfoDom Zagreb, while Mr. Vidović takes over the coordination and management of the operations of the InfoDom Group, which unites 14 companies and has 110 employees.

Internal transformation has further strengthened the InfoDom Group, and the new Management Board of InfoDom Zagreb will continue to focus more on the market and create value for its customers, in order to rapidly contribute to the digital transformation of the public sector and economy.

Watch Nordic mayors, city professionals, youth and experts discuss emerging issues and actions to prevent extremist hate and violence and the impact of the Covid-19 on safety in our societies. Broadcasted live from the Copenhagen City Hall directly to the offices and streets in five Nordic cities and their ongoing work to keep cities safe.

 

Here is a link to a recording of the session:
https://nordicsafecities.org/initiatives/the-safe-city-blueprint/

Join in for the launch of the Nordic Safe City Blueprint.

2 June, 13.00 - 15.30 CET
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Watch Nordic mayors, city professionals, youth and experts discuss emerging issues and actions to prevent extremist hate and violence and the impact of the Covid-19 on safety in our societies. Take part in the conversation as we broadcast live from the Copenhagen City Hall directly to the offices and streets in five Nordic cities and their ongoing work to keep cities safe.

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A detailed program conference can be found here, and a short one is available in this file Conference program

You are invited to join one of the free webinars organized by Island Innovation. It will be the second webinar in the series, Islands Responses to COVID-19 and is taking place this Wednesday, May 13th at 6pm.

MIPRO asks you to enrich the situation and further development with additional paper in the context of the extended Call for MIPRO 2020 which moves to a new term 28^th of September 2020, especially ICT in its ubiquity contributes against COVID 19.

The 31^st Central European Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems CECIIS 2020 will be held from October 7^th to October 9^th, 2020 at FOI in Varaždin. The special emphasis of this year Conference is on "Intelligent Systems - Trends, Future, Society". This year's conference is organized by The Faculty of Organization and Informatics and EDEN – European Distance and e-Learning Network.

Ericsson and British Telecommunication PLC (BT) have signed a deal to deploy Ericsson’s dual-mode 5G Core (Evolved Packet Core and 5G Core), a fully container-based, cloud native Mobile Packet Core for 4G, 5G Non-standalone and 5G Standalone services as a single fully integrated core.

The solution, delivered on BT’s Network Cloud, will form a key component in BT’s move to a single converged IP network. It will incorporate network orchestration and automation, including continuous delivery and integration processes (CI/CD), and be integrated into BT’s existing customer experience management platforms using Ericsson Expert Analytics together with Ericsson’s built-in software probes.

Igor Vukasović took over the position of the Director of the Corporate Communications Department of Hrvatski Telekom on April 1. He will be responsible for the internal and external communication of the leading telecommunications company in Croatia.
He has taken on a new position from the position of the manager of Corporate Communications at Addiko Bank, where he has been managing corporate communications over the past nine years. During his career, he served as the Corporate Communications Director of the Addiko Group and handled the communications aspect of the Group's privatization and rebranding.

On the 31^st of March Nokia has announced the launch of a complete AI as a service offering: Nokia AVA 5G Cognitive Operations. The framework and its underlying AI-based solutions enable CSPs to transform their network, service and business operations through the application of AI, automation and cloud scalability. The solution will provide CSPs with insights to assist with slice creation and assurance to meet committed SLAs.