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Semantics

Semantic interoperability enables systems and services to exchange and interpret data meaningfully.

Open Source Software

Open source software enables users to use, study, redistribute, and modify software freely.

Observatories

Observatories are monitoring tools designed to gather information on the state of play of digital public administration and interoperability activities.

Digital ready policymaking

Digital-ready policymaking considers digital aspects from start to finish to create policies that are future-proof and interoperable.

Tools

Tools for achieving interoperability in the EU public sector improve coordination, data sharing, and decision-making across sectors.

Reusable Software Components

Reusable software components improve efficiency, reduce costs, and facilitate interoperability in digital public services.

Smart cities

Smart cities can contribute to achieving the EC's Digital Decade objectives, promoting sustainability and innovation in the public sector.

Innovation

The Innovation topic discusses how governments are using AI, Blockchain, and GovTech to enhance operations and serve citizens better.

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eGovernment

Developing a data-informed public sector: discover the BDTI

In case you are not familiar with the Big Data Test Infrastructure, the launch of our new website is a great opportunity to learn more about it! But first, let’s start with the basics, what is BDTI…

20/03/2023 News

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Semantics

SEMIC Roadshow in Estonia

On the 16th and 17th of February 2023 our knowledgeable colleagues from Estonia hosted the SEMIC Team to exchange good practices and learn from each other on interoperability. The proposal for the…

23/03/2023 News

Observatories

NIFO Webinar Highlights

A webinar on the European Interoperability Framework and its Monitoring Mechanism was held on Friday March 3rd, 2023, with more than 70 participants from different EU Member States, various European…

23/03/2023 News

Highlighted content

The upcoming Joinup User Group Meeting is approaching! It will take place online on Thursday 30th of March 2023, from 15:00 to 16:30 CET. Whether you are a community manager, content writer, or simple…

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29 Mar

Digital ready policymaking

eGovernment

Key takeaways | Public Services and Blockchain

Our Legal Interoperability Team brings you key takeaways from the ‘Public Services and Blockchain: Why, why not, what and how?’ event hosted by Demos Helsinki’s Senior Policy Expert, Johannes Anttila…

28 Mar

Innovation

European Commission kicks off innovative European GovTech platform

The European Commission has taken a step forward in advancing the GovTech agenda with its pilot project "Fostering digitisation of public sector and green transition in Europe through the use of an…

28 Mar

eProcurement

12th Working Group Meeting

In this section, there are the WG presentation and report that have been prepared for the 11th WGM. Presentation link Report link

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New NIFO workshop - Smart cities - Organisational and cultural interoperability challenges in the implementation of local, regional or national data spaces and local digital twins

29/03/2023

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GovTech Connect

What is GovTech Connect? Welcome to the GovTech Connect Community! The GovTech Connect Community is a space where everyone can share their knowledge and experience to grow together. This Collection conveys the results of…

16/02/2023

GR digiGOV-innoHUB - The Greek EDIH for…

The Greek Digital Government and Public Services Innovation Hub – GR digiGOV-innoHUB supports the development of a new generation of public services based on advanced digital technologies (AI, ML, IoT, Blockchain, HPC)…

07/02/2023

EC Open Source Programme Office

The European Commission Open Source Programme Office (EC OSPO) was created in 2020 as the first concrete action of the latest Open Source Software Strategy for 2020-2023. It acts as a facilitator for activities outlined…

17/01/2022

FOSSEPS - Free and Open Source Software…

As the use of open source across European institutions and European public services increases, so does the need to manage and protect open source and treat it as a collective, shared and valuable European asset. It makes…

08/12/2021

Interoperable Europe

Interoperable Europe is the initiative of the European Commission for a reinforced interoperability policy in the public sector.

18/10/2021

ENDORSE exchange platform

Welcome to the exchange platform Knowledge sharing in organisations is a significant challenge in present-day societies. While it is directly related to the production, dissemination and reuse of fast-growing volumes of…

26/03/2021

Mutual Learning Platform on Data Protection…

The PANELFIT Platform for Mutual Learning is an interactive tool aimed at promoting cooperation and support between researchers and innovators working on data protection issues in the field of ICT. It is aimed at…

06/11/2020

Data Oriented Services (DORIS)

In its day-to-day work, the Commission is responsible for defining and implementing new policies, drawing up new legislation proposals, while conducting prior impact assessments, etc., in more than 30 different policy…

14/10/2020

European Rapid Alert system for dangerous…

The Rapid Exchange of Information System (RAPEX) is the EU rapid alert system for unsafe consumer products and consumer protection. RAPEX does not encompass food and pharmaceutical products and drugs. RAPEX allows a…

12/10/2020

Catalogue of Services

Our mission The Catalogue of Services Action supports public administrations in building their digital catalogues of public services, to allow citizens, businesses and public administrations across Europe to access and…

28/09/2020

Ontology Engineering Group

JoinUp collection for the Ontology Engineering Group resources (ontologies, thesauri, technologies, etc.)

15/09/2020

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for…

Know more about APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the connecting nodes of the digital society, thus a foundational component of its digital transformation. The vast majority of data exchange and…

14/09/2020

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Regulatory Reporting Online Course

Download your Interoperable Europe Academy course on regulatory reporting! The Interoperable Europe Academy aims to provide free-of-charge, high-quality and reusable online courses. Therefore, most of the Academy's…

08/02/2023

eGovERA based VAT4SME model in support of the…

DG TAXUD launched directive Council Directive (EU) 2020/285 on 2020 to be entered into force in 2025. In September 2022 DG DIGIT started supporting DG TAXUD co-modelling with participants in the Fiscalis WG the…

07/02/2023

CAMSS Assessment of ETSI TS 119 612 - EIF…

Assessment of ETSI TS 119 612 1.1.1 - EIF Scenario

26/10/2022

Actinia: cloud based geoprocessing

The cloud based geoprocessing platform actinia is able to ingest and analyse large volumes of geodata already present in the cloud. Due to its scalability of the cloud platform insights and tailor made information are…

14/10/2022

Z-Anatomy

'Z-anatomy' is an ergonomic navigable atlas of anatomy that articulates thousands 3D objects and their description (wikipedia). It is the ideal tool for the students of any medical discipline. It uses the latest…

12/10/2022

CAMSS Assessment of DCMI - EIF Scenario

Assessment of the Dublin Core Ontology (DCMI) 15.0 - EIF Scenario

11/10/2022

CAMSS Assessment of OAS - EIF Scenario

Assessment of OpenAPI Specification (OAS) 3.1.0 - EIF Scenario

11/10/2022

CAMSS Assessment of ShEx - EIF Scenario

Assessment of Shape Expressions (ShEx) 2.1.0 - EIF Scenario

11/10/2022

CAMSS Assessment of ETSI EN 319 422

Assessment of Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI);Time-stamping protocol and time-stamp token profiles (ETSI EN 319 422) 1.1.1 - EIF Scenario

10/10/2022

CAMSS Assessment of DPV - EIF Scenario

CAMSS Assessment of Data Privacy Vocabulary 0.8 - EIF Scenario

10/10/2022

CAMSS Assessment of ETSI TS 119 614-1 - EIF…

Assessment of ETSI TS 119 614-1 - Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI) - Testing Conformance and Interoperability of Trusted Lists; Part 1: Specifications for testing conformance of XML representation of…

12/09/2022

CAMSS Assessment of ETSI TS 119 512 - EIF…

Assessment of Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Protocols for trust service providers providing long-term data preservation services (ETSI TS 119 512) 1.1.2 - EIF Scenario

28/07/2022

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Key takeaways | Public Services and…

29/03/2023

European Commission kicks off innovative…

28/03/2023

12th Working Group Meeting

In this section, there are the WG presentation and report that have been prepared for the 11th WGM. Presentation link Report link

28/03/2023

Interview with Andrea Halmos

"Every time I went to a new unit in the European Commission, I always tried to dig out the relevance for the digital transformation of the public sector. So, when I joined this unit, I really felt that it is like coming…

28/03/2023

ITU Expert Focus Group on the Metaverse

Digital technologies are shaping our society and new services such as virtual worlds will have a profound impact on the way people will interact. One example is the so-called CitiVerse that will allow citizens and other…

28/03/2023

GovTech Connect - Startups Survey

We're on a mission to hear from GovTech startups and SMEs across Europe to share their experiences selling or working with government. For this reason, we prepared a short survey to collect startups and SME’s insights on…

27/03/2023

The Test Bed in support of digital wallets…

In the upcoming months the Interoperability Test Bed will be supporting innovation and conformance testing of digital identity wallets for air travel and mobility within the EU. In December 2022, iLabs, an official…

27/03/2023

Finland NLS licenses under EUPL

Funded by European Commission DG-DEFIS, the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) distributes and share under the European Union Public Licence the HASlib program, an open-source software package intended to facilitate…

25/03/2023

Submission of CAMSS vocabularies to W3C

CAMSS is starting the submission process to standardize the Core Assessment Vocabulary (CAV) and the Core Standards and Specifications Vocabulary (CSSV) to W3C. A group of experts, reunited around these vocabularies…

24/03/2023

Webinar: Policy & Strategy Aspects of OSS in…

OSOR is pleased to announce a webinar on Tuesday 4 May, from 2pm to 4pm CET, on "Policy & Strategy Aspects of OSS in Public Administration". This is the first in a series of three and will present the report from our…

24/03/2023

SEMIC Roadshow in Estonia

On the 16th and 17th of February 2023 our knowledgeable colleagues from Estonia hosted the SEMIC Team to exchange good practices and learn from each other on interoperability. The proposal for the Interoperable Europe…

23/03/2023

GovTech Connect | Boot Camps Challenge…

Over the last two weeks we hosted the first two GovTech Connect Workshops, to define the objectives and the challenge statements for 2023 start-ups' Boot camps. Workshop themes focused on supporting the green transition…

24/03/2023

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GovTech Leaders 2023

GovTech Leaders are back on the 9th of May, 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania. GovTech leaders, followers, challengers and observers – every public sector innovation enthusiast will find their place at the GovTech Leaders 2023…

09/05/2023

[AI-IS] Artificial Intelligence - Innovation…

Attention all tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and visionaries! Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of Artificial Intelligence! The ‘Artificial Intelligence - Innovation Summit on OpenAI and ChatGPT’ will take…

20/04/2023

Europe Tech Summit

Technology is moving fast – and policymakers are playing catch-up! POLITICO Live’s 6th edition of the Europe Tech Summit will return on 26-27 April with a virtual event seeking to contend with the development of tomorrow…

26/04/2023

Data Innovation Summit 2023 | 8th Edition

The Data Innovation Summit will return, online and in Stockholm, on 11-12 May 2023! One of the largest and most influential annual Data and AI events in the Nordics and beyond, the Summit brings together the most…

11/05/2023

GovTech Connect Webinar | Launch of the…

We are excited to announce our first Webinar to celebrate the launch of the GovTech Connect community! Join us to discover more about the GovTech Connect project and its activities. The online event will feature keynote…

17/04/2023

ITU-T Focus Group on the Metaverse - TG…

As part of the recently created ITU-T focus group on the metaverse, you are invited to the on-line meeting under TG-collaboration that will be held on 19 April 2023 from 10:00 to 11:00 (CEST), for EU-based experts only…

19/04/2023

Discover BDTI’s stack: KNIME and DG DIGIT…

Are you interested in learning more about data-driven innovation in the public sector? Well mark your calendars and stay tuned: we have an exciting event hosted by DIGIT in collaboration with KNIME that will bring…

03/05/2023

Upcoming SEMIC Events in April

The Semantic Interoperability Community (SEMIC) organises several workshops and webinars on various topics impacted by interoperability challenges. Are you curious about the planning for the coming month? You can check…

01/04/2023

Segundas Jornadas de Cultura Libre de la URJC

"Next 29th and 30th of March will take place the Second Free Culture Conference of the URJC. They are conceived as a meeting point, training, and exchange of experiences on issues related to free culture at the…

29/03/2023

NGI Webinar on Open Software Supply Chain…

Open Source in (Consumer) Electronics Supply Chains Thursday, April 6, 2023. 13.00 - 14.30 CEST Join the free online webinar with open source supply chain expert Armijn Hemel on Thursday, April 6, 2023. 13.00 - 14.30…

14/04/2023

"ChamiloCamp" à Namur en avril 2023, plongez…

Rejoignez-nous pour le ChamiloCamp à Namur en avril 2023 et plongez-vous dans l'univers de la formation en ligne avec la communauté Chamilo. Découvrez les dernières tendances, partagez vos expériences et échangez avec…

12/04/2023

"ChamiloCamp" in Namur in April 2023, immerse…

Join us for ChamiloCamp in Namur in April 2023 and immerse yourself in the world of online education with the Chamilo community. Discover the latest trends, share your experiences, and network with passionate…

12/04/2023

What's Joinup

The Joinup platform is the European Commission's one-stop shop for interoperable, open, and free digital government ICT solutions and an online space for e-Government professionals and enthusiasts to share and learn about digital public services and initiatives.

Joinup covers the hands-on aspects of interoperability.

What's Interoperable Europe

It’s the European Commission’s initiative for a reinforced interoperability policy showcasing news and events about government-related interoperability, along with initiatives and best practices that support the digitalisation of EU public administrations.

Interoperable Europe covers the policy angle of interoperability.

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