The ISA² work programme 2018 has been published on 20 March 2018 (https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/isa2_en).

ISA² is running from 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2020 and supports the development of digital solutions that enable public administrations, businesses and citizens in Europe to benefit from interoperable cross-border and cross-sector public services.
The 2018 programme details (section 8.12) the actions aimed to support the Sharing and reuse of IT solutions, which enables public administrations to develop services more quickly and at a reduced cost. In line with previous activities, these actions will promote the use of open source solutions in the public sector by maintaining the Open Source community and EUPL community on Joinup.

A revised set of guidelines and recommendations on the use of the open source licence EUPL v1.2 published by the Commission on 19 May 2017 will be developed, involving the DIGIT unit B.3 (Reusable Solutions) and the JRC 1.4 (Joint Research Centre – Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer). The existing licence wizard will be updated. New ways of promoting public administrations' use of open source will be investigated and planned (such as hackathons or app challenges on open source software). The target date for the release of this set of guidelines on the use of the European Public Licence EUPL v1.2, including a modified Licence Wizard, is planned Q2 2018.

As new features become available on the Joinup platform in the coming months, a new design of the maintained communities will be proposed in early 2018 to enhance user experience. Indeed, a Joinup users’ workshop held on 26 January has highlighted the need for a series of improvements, better categorisation of the matters and easier navigation.

In addition, the ISA² communication plan comprises promotional activities such as workshops and webinars on the Sharing and Reuse Framework and the EUPL in individual Members States as well as presentations during larger international events.

In line with a growing interest shown by Member States' digital agencies and administrations for sharing and reusing solutions through the EUPL as their legal interoperability tool, we may expect that 2018 will be a great interoperability year.