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A new open source project aims to help Ukrainians fleeing the country by providing accommodation assistance across Europe.
Acquired by Airbnb.org, the platform UASupport provides an interactive map to help volunteers and NGOs offer housing aid to Ukrainians refugees and asylum seekers. Following the war in Ukraine, the…
NEWSCreated: 19/05/2022
Hungarian developers launched a website that provides Ukrainian asylum seekers with useful information to facilitate the border crossing into Hungary.
By providing essential information on a large array of topics, ranging from medical and legal aid to accommodation, education and pets crossing, this initiative aims to support Ukrainians entering…
NEWSCreated: 19/05/2022
Ten Member States have joined the eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (eHDSI), built on TESTA.
The Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations (TESTA) is the data communication network service lying at the digital core of the EU4Health Programme, and interoperability is the…
NEWSCreated: 24/03/2022All EU Member States adopted the Strasbourg Declaration outlining the coordination strategy for public administrations.
The Declaration on the Common values and challenges of European Public Administrations underlines an overarching support of open source and interoperability within the public sector. On 16 and 17…
NEWSCreated: 22/03/2022The French Presidency of the Council of the EU announced the creation of a task force on digital commons.
France and other sixteen Member States will work on a voluntary basis to create a European hub for digital commons as well as identify new financial and human resources to allocate to European open…
NEWSCreated: 23/02/2022European Commissioner outlines priorities
The EU Open Source Policy Summit is an annual event focusing on “Open Source & the Grand Challenges” as its theme this year. The EU Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn was among…
NEWSCreated: 21/02/2022The European Commission launched Interoperable Europe, the new policy framework for interoperability in the EU.
Funded by the Digital Europe Programme, Interoperable Europe builds on ISA2 and puts open cooperation with the Member States at its heart. On 21 November, the European Commission announced the launch…
NEWSCreated: 17/01/2022Key takeaways from the OSOR webinar on enabling sharing and reuse with open source
On 30 November, the OSOR community participated in the webinar on enabling the sharing and reuse with open source. During the event, Kristo Vaher, Chief of Technology for the Estonian Ministry of…
NEWSCreated: 14/12/2021EU study on the impact of open source published
The study on the impact of Open Source Software and Hardware for the European Commission found that open source software and hardware are key for the region's digital transformation and can be a major…
NEWSCreated: 06/09/2021Key takeaways from the webinar on building cross-administration collaboration on OSS projects
On 5 August, the OSOR community joined the webinar on building cross-administration collaboration on open source software (OSS) projects. During the event, Jacco Brouwer, community manager at the…
NEWSCreated: 16/08/2021The EU Digital COVID Certificate is officially on across Europe.
In compliance with the 1 July deadline, all the Member States as well as other non-EU countries effectively connected with the EU Gateway, thus going live with the EU Digital COVID Certificate. On 1…
NEWSCreated: 11/08/2021Key takeaways from the webinar on public administrations adapting to OSS development culture
On 29 June, the OSOR community got together to discuss how public administrations can adapt to open source software (OSS) development culture. Organised as part of OSOR’s webinar series on public…
NEWSCreated: 06/07/2021