Research programmes, startups, public digital infrastructure and the people building it.
A consortium of major Dutch financial and telecom firms has unveiled MyCheck, an eiDAS 2.0-compliant digital identity wallet offered free to the government and users. The move reflects growing momentum across Europe to meet the 2026 deadline for national digital identity systems.
Lucas Eustache has completed his doctoral dissertation on the organisational barriers to data circulation, supported by the Gaia-X Institute over three years of research at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.
The Paris-based cryptocurrency wallet maker discovered that devices distributed through CryptoBilis contained covert implants designed to intercept recovery phrases and drain user funds.
Kyiv's government has embraced open source software across key e-governance platforms, from the Diia citizen services app to the ProZorro procurement system, driven by sovereignty concerns and infrastructure resilience rather than a formal national policy.
The European Investment Fund is backing a new Czech venture capital vehicle with €27 million to help commercialize university research and build 40 deep-tech startups across Central Europe.
FLÆ Robotics has raised over €1 million in its first disclosed funding round to scale BE-A, an AI agent that handles guest inquiries and bookings across multiple channels for hotels across Europe.
The European Union is backing a three-year initiative to modernise Moldova's civil service, with the e-Governance Academy and Finland's HAUS institute leading efforts to strengthen governance ahead of EU accession talks.
VoicePatrol, founded by Matei Trebien and Cătălin Cășuneanu during the pandemic, has secured €3M in funding led by GapMinder VC to expand its real-time voice moderation technology across gaming studios.