The European Commission announces the launch of "Access●City Award", the first European Award for Accessible Cities. This annual award aims to highlight the European cities that are taking the most effective and innovative action to improve their accessibility for disabled citizens.

Technological advances have taken the medical world to a whole new level, as digital infrastructure and state-of-the-art software offer doctors and patients the right tools for diagnosis and treatment.

The European Commission published calls for proposals that will result in projects worth €1.2 billion to be launched in 2011. These projects will help mobilise the necessary resources around key ICT research challenges and objectives.

Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn announces nearly € 6.4 billion of European Commission investment in research and innovation. The package, the biggest ever, covers a vast range of scientific disciplines, public policy areas and commercial sectors.

Whether in another Member State for a business trip, short break or studying abroad, the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) can help save time, hassle and money if you fall ill or suffer an injury while abroad. To help holiday planning, here are some facts, figures and information on the European Health Insurance Card.

At the meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of the Information Society in Russia dedicated to assessing interim results and prospects of employing information and communication technologies, Dmitry Medvedev noted that their development and implementation have special relevance in a country like Russia, given its enormous distances.

Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna (Italy) announced the release of the first dataset that composes the Living Human Digital Library (LHDL) multiscale musculoskeletal data collection. The data represent the three-dimensional skeletal anatomy of the cadaver of a 78 years old woman with normal morphology (height: 171 cm, weight: 64 kg, from now on referred to as "LHDL_Donor1").