This solution contains all the artefacts related to the European Citizens' Initiative in the context of the regulation Regulation (EU) 2019/788 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the European citizens' initiative. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1558082143592&uri=CELEX:32019R0788

This solution has been financed by the ISA² and DEP programs under the action "European Citizens’ Initiatives and European Parliament Elections" in the package EU Policies – Supporting InstrumentsThe Crypto tool Software offers an open source software that enables to exchange files different parties in a secure manner. It is currently being used in the context of the European Parliament elections and in the context of the European Citizens' Initiative.

The pilot project "Promoting Linked Open Data (LOD), Free Software and Civil Society Participation in Law-Making throughout the EU", in short "Linked Open Data and eParticipation", has been launched in 2015 on request of the European Parliament. It aims to promote the development and use of tools enabling civil society throughout the EU to participate in the preparation of standard-compliant documents throughout the law-making process, and to facilitate the integration of these tools in the Linked Open Data framework. This is possible through a Web platform allowing citizens and other…

When is this action of interest to you? You are an EU institution or a Member State public administration that wants to gather measures and analyse large quantities of data including citizens' opinions, needs and preferences by allowing the electronic participation of stakeholders. You are a European citizen wanting to voice your opinion and influence the decisions of your government. This action will contribute to making governments more open and participatory throughout Europe, by addressing the challenges around opinion elicitations with a main focus on reuse of existing assets. What is…

EUSurvey - the flexible and widely accessible solution for: collecting the opinions of stakeholders on a specific issue, rapidly consulting businesses, citizens or other interested parties, conducting user satisfaction surveys, preparing conference registrations, creating multi-lingual surveys, publishing results over the web, EUSurvey is a multilingual online survey management system built for the creation and publication of surveys and public consultations. It covers all steps of a survey life cycle, from the design to the launch of the survey to the analysis and publication of results. It…

In the context of European Citizens' Initiatives (ECI), the Validation Tool for Statements of Support (VTECI) is a tool available for the verification of Statements of Support (SoS). It allows National Authorities to fulfil their task specified in Article 8 of the Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The Federal Office of Administration (Bundesverwaltungsamt, Germany) developed a first version of this tool and shared it under a EUPL license. Within ISA Action 1.12, the European Commission continued its development with the aim to provide a generic solution…

engage is an eParticipation toolkit developed under the Parterre Project, which was part funded by the European Commission under the CIP (ICT-PSP) Programme 2009. The source code is available under the Affero GPLv3. The application is designed to support citizen engagement within a Town Meeting-style environment, using tablets to gather comments and voting data from round table discussion groups. The results can be visualised on a projector screen in real-time, and compiled into a report for delivery to participants at the end of the event. The software has been trialled with over 300 users at…

Provide a common ground XML for the exchange between the Organisers and the National Authorities of information about Physical persons signing for a European Citizens' Initiative According to EU Regulation 211/2011, citizens can invite the European Commission to submit proposals provide they have received support of at least one million signatories. Member States need to verify the statement of support. The goal of this XML schema is to facilitate the exchange of information between the Organisers of Initiatives and the Member States.

In the context of European Citizens' Initiatives (ECI), the Online Collection software (OCS) is a tool for online data collection. OCS enables citizens to support a given initiative and organizers to manage its operations. The tool also streamlines both data collection and its verification by the National Authorities. OCS respects the Regulation (EU) No 211/2011 and Regulation (EU) No 1179/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Within ISA action 1.12, the European Commission contributes to its development with the aim to provide a generic tool available to all initiative…

ePetition is a project designed to release an ePetitions web application with multi-language support. The project enables the site user to manage petitions within their region and also looks to broaden the project to a Euro-wide audience.

IPM has been replaced by EUSurvey Important information for the users of the IPM OSS software: The IPM application has been phased out by the end of 2015 and will therefore soon be removed from the Joinup catalogue. The project is no longer supported. It has been replaced by EUSurvey, the European Commission's multilingual online survey management system built for the creation and publication of surveys and public consultations. No further IPM OSS releases will be developed. The latest IPM OSS 3.4 remains available for download until 30 June 2016. EUSurvey is available as open source software…

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