Your mental health deserves a place in your feed too.

Our digital lives are an important part of our mental wellbeing.

This World Mental Health Day, let’s take a moment to think about how our digital lives affect us.

A few simple steps can help:
🔸 Limit screen time
🔸 Turn off non-essential notifications
🔸 Take a break from screens before bed
🔸 Unfollow content that makes you feel anxious or pressured

Our mental health also starts on the screen. More: https://link.europa.eu/vJdpDN

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PS: we had to edit the image because of a typo.

AI capabilities are advancing rapidly.

With a strong legal framework, enforcement and the best scientific minds, we can lead the way in ensuring safe & secure AI.

Today, I hosted a special meeting of the Scientific Panel on AI to discuss recent AI incidents.

60 world-leading independent experts have been investigating recent incidents involving loss of control over AI systems. Together with the AI Office, have prepared a set of questions for the companies that developed the models involved.

We are digging for gallium 🪽 👀

And other critical raw materials for everyday life – like gallium, that powers your smartphones and medical devices.

And now, we have selected strategic projects to boost extraction, processing and recycling, so we can keep powering everyday life 👇

https://link.europa.eu/CdCpMP

What is shaping the EU's cyber threat landscape?

🔸 Over 48,000 new vulnerabilities were detected in 2025
🔸 73% of the incidents targeted essential organisations
🔸 Emerging AI models are facilitating malicious activity
🔸 Ransomware was the most impactful type of incident
🔸 Geopolitical developments heavily influenced cybercrime and cyberespionage
🔸 Public administration is still the most targeted sector in the EU

October is #CyberSecMonth.

Read the full report: https://link.europa.eu/mrqGK3

Three new Interoperable Europe Academy courses are now available in all 24 official EU languages.

🔹 Open source software for EU Public administrations – Module 1
🔹 Digital-ready policymaking
🔹 Overcoming the challenges of sharing and reusing software

Find them here
👉 https://link.europa.eu/ybmf7V

Love is love.

On International Lesbian Day, we celebrate lesbian women and stand up for a simple principle:

Everyone should be free to be themselves and love who they love — free from discrimination, exclusion or violence. 🧡

Our LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy is about making equality a reality — tackling hate, supporting communities and protecting people’s rights.

We all know someone whose life has been touched by cancer.

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women in the EU, affecting countless lives, families and communities every year.

The EU-funded project BosomShield is using AI, medical imaging, pathology and clinical data to help predict relapse risk.

Find out more: https://link.europa.eu/496WTP

A safer internet starts right at our work desks.

Our new Eurobarometer shows that three in four employees in the EU encounter cyber threats on the job. Meanwhile, less than half feel confident that they can spot an AI fake video.

This European Cybersecurity Month, let’s build a stronger and safer Europe online, like offline.

More: https://link.europa.eu/DC86tU

What should a safer internet look like for minors?

The European Commission is seeking your views on the proposed EU KIDS Act.

Share your thoughts and help shape safer digital spaces for children.

Have your say by 26 November 2026!

🔗https://link.europa.eu/PJcw98

Protecting children online is one of the Commission's top priorities. Children’s attention must not be a commodity.

Today in the European Parliament plenary we discussed the proposed KIDS Act and its gradual and age-appropriate approach to social media.

Today’s debate has shown the determination to make the online world a safer place for children and generations to come.

Over the next week, several vacancies across DIGIT will close.

Check the requirements, and, if you're eligible, hurry up and apply:

IT Security Officer - Full-Stack Developer 👉 https://link.europa.eu/CP8CYg

Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst 👉 https://link.europa.eu/Kc6KHT

Security Officer - Senior Cloud Architect👉 https://link.europa.eu/tkJv6J

Legal Officers
👉 https://link.europa.eu/cRQ9qy
👉 https://link.europa.eu/GnFpry

Some teachers stay with us long after we leave the classroom.

This #WorldTeachersDay, we’re celebrating teachers and supporting them across Europe with opportunities, tools and resources:

🏫 Erasmus+ Teacher Academies: training and connecting teachers

📱 SELFIE for Teachers: helping educators build digital skills

🏆 European Innovative Teaching Award: celebrating great teaching

📒 Resources to help students tackle disinformation

https://europa.eu/!dCGbvh

Under what conditions should copyright-protected content be used for AI training?

🗣️We know this is a topic many of you feel strongly about.

We want to hear your views on issues related to the use of copyright-protected content for training AI models, for research, and more.

📝Consultation open until 3 November 2026.

https://link.europa.eu/JbhGpG

Have you heard of the PISA 2025 results? They are a wake-up call in our schools – and we are responding.

In our new Education Package, we will focus on the fundamentals: strong basic skills, empowered teachers, inclusive classrooms, and responsible use of digital technologies and AI. This is how we strengthen basic skills while helping top performers reach the highest levels.

A bright future begins at school.

https://link.europa.eu/YMnHBB

We don't just promise support. We deliver it.

Today we sent another €2.9 billion to Ukraine to keep essential state functions running and drive strategic reforms forward.

That is over €32 billion delivered under the Ukraine Plan so far, strengthening economic resilience on their path to the EU ↓

🔗 https://link.europa.eu/pdHPyb

Aristotelis Damigos and Rune Kyndal.

They came from different countries but answered the same call.

On 2 August 2026, they lost their lives while fighting the flames in Greece.

Today, we remember them.

We also honour all firefighters and emergency responders across Europe who put themselves at risk to protect others.

For their courage. For their dedication. For always answering the call.

🇪🇺❤️

We hope to see you in Dublin for our flagship conference on semantic interoperability and digital public services - SEMIC 2026!

But, if Dublin is too far, you can still follow the conference online.

So mark 30 November in your calendars & register 👉https://link.europa.eu/yTnVMR

Great ideas can come from any one of us, anywhere.

Ideas discussed in European Citizens’ Panels are already shaping Europe.

Yours can too.

Bring your perspective, share what matters to you, and help shape what comes next.

Protect democracy.
Join the debate 🗨️ https://link.europa.eu/C8KThc

🐾 More than 20 years of easier travel for pets across the EU.

On 1 October 2004, the EU pet passport system came into effect.

Since then, dogs, cats and ferrets have been able to cross EU borders with their owners, with their key health and identification information in one place. 🇪🇺 🐶🐱