European standards, Ukraine, supply chains resilience... and more!

Your first #WeeklyDEbrief of the year is here. Same concept: a fresh look at DIGITALEUROPE's week. New format: you can now subscribe to receive our latest highlights every Friday!

So, what happened this week?

In the spotlight ??

• European standards: our DG Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl and our board member Mikael B?ck took part in the first meeting of the High-Level Forum on European Standardisation. This group will advise the European Commission on how harmonised standards can empower a green, digital & resilient single market.
• Ukraine: We received a delegation from the Mission of Ukraine to the EU to talk about our efforts to support Ukrainians. Our #LaptopsForUkraine campaign is still ongoing. Keep the donations coming! (see how and where to donate, here).
• NIS2 entered into force: This set of new rules is good news for cybersecurity in Europe. Now, a swift implementation across the EU to avoid national fragmentation is key.
• Supply chains: Chips are a hot topic in #Davos. How can Europe build local capacity in this critical area? We invited public and private key players to talk about it:

Do not miss ??

• Our interview with? Adigital 's Director General? Cesar Tello . We talked about the new Spanish 'Startups Law', digitalisation in Spain (and Europe)... and?much more.
• Our newest?position paper on the European Health Data Space. The proposal should not clash with other relevant legislations and should ensure clear definitions and clear conditions for secondary use of data.
• Our next?#DigitalDeepDive. This time, we'll be discussing the soon-to-come regulation on electronic payment services. Or what's the same: the Payment Directive Services 3 (#PSD3). Interested? Then register here.

• The opportunity to join our policy team! You'll come work on export controls, chips, supply chains, international relations, and many other fascinating topics.?Apply before 29 January.
• How DIGITALEUROPE has started 2023 with some great team work.

Projects' corner ??

2023 is European Year of Skills and at DIGITALEUROPE we are committed to contributing to the skilling and reskilling of European citizens. We need more people with more digital skills.

Two of our projects are precisely working towards achieving that goal:

ARISA - AI Skills is shrinking the AI skills gap and developing a European AI skills strategy. Check their new webpage. DS4Skills - Data Space for Skills is building a human-centric and trusted ecosystem to share and access skills data. This is their new site.

Digital Health Uptake (DHU) , aiming to?accelerate the large-scale use of digital healthcare in Europe, has also launched their website this week.

Good bye to #AccessibiliTech and Women4IT ??

• #AccessibiliTech's final conference presented its results and discussed how to make technology accessible for everyone. Some ideas.
• Women4IT ended by bringing together trainees and participants to talk about how can we continue boosting gender #diversity in the digital sector: