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On 13 September 2023, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen outlined past achievements and future ambitions for Europe in her State of Union address. This address marked the final one for the current Commission before the European elections in 2024, providing Von der Leyen with an opportunity to highlight the achievements of the past years in her speech. Europe continues to pursue its climate ambitions, with the European Green Deal being one of its flagship initiatives. “Food security, in harmony with nature, remains an essential task”. Von der Leyen mentioned in her

The recently published policy brief by Think20, titled ‘Open Data as Backbone of Digital Public Infrastructure: Prioritising High-Value Datasets for Effective Governance’ proposes a shared G20 Open Government Data (OGD) commitment to further improve the Digital Public Infrastructure. Based on empirical evidence and legislations, the brief lays down an action plan for the implementation of this shared commitment. Think20 is an official Engagement Group of the G20 bringing together think tanks and experts to discuss policy issues. Open Government Data (OGD) is vital for improving the Digital

On Friday 29 September 2023 from 10.00 to 11.30 CET, the data.europa academy will host a webinar focusing on the policy dimension following the Open Data Maturity (ODM) report 2022. This is the fourth webinar in a series of webinars on the ODM report 2022. The first webinar, that took place on 10 February 2023, introduced the Open Data Maturity assessment, provided insights into the level of maturity of the 35 participating countries in Europe and presented the main trends. During this webinar, the four dimensions of ODM were introduced: quality, portal, policy and impact. The second webinar

On Thursday 19 October from 10.00 to 12.00 CET, data.europa.eu will host its first workshop series on ‘How to use open data for your research’. This series, designed for students and academics is also open to anyone interested. The goal is to showcase the relevance and importance of open data for academic purposes. During this workshop, you will learn how to use open data from our portal for research and get examples from universities that have already embraced open data in their daily operations. The workshop will start with an introduction by the Publications Office of the EU on open data

We have just launched our yearly data.europa.eu user satisfaction survey. We would be happy to hear any feedback you may have for us regarding the portal, the data.europa academy, and more! Your opinion will help us further improve the portal content and functions. As the official portal for European data, we provide access to open data from various public administrations. By organising webinars and events and offering a variety of content such as data stories, reports and news pieces, we aim to help you improve your data skills and broaden your knowledge. With this user survey, we hope to be

Today marks International Literacy Day (ILD), a reminder of the crucial role literacy plays in upholding dignity and human rights. Literacy serves as a fundamental pillar for education and a lifelong learning aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 4’s aim to ensure inclusive, equitable and quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Therefore, this years’ theme of ILD is ‘Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies’. In the current digital landscape, digital literacy has become more important. It

The Cohesion Open Data Platform, by the European Commission (EC), presents aggregated information and promotes transparency on how funds are being used by the European Commission to support EU regions in their economic reforms. The platform shares open data from numerous national, regional, and interregional programmes, providing insights into the cohesion policy, finances (planned and implemented) EU payments made to the Member States and agreed targets. We previously published a news piece with more comprehensive details about the platform. As of the beginning of 2023, all programmes for

The recent publication from data.europa.eu, titled ‘Creating public sector value through the use of open data’ aims to address the question of ‘how to foster open data value creation in the public sector?’. This is the final paper in a series on public institutions as reusers of open data. It reflects upon the results of a 1-year campaign regarding data reuse practices, highlighting the persistent barriers and providing recommendations on overcoming them. The campaign was initiated based on insights provided in the paper ‘Measuring Data Demand Within the Public Sector’, resulting in a series

On Friday, 15 September 2023 from 10.00 to 11.30 CET, the data.europa academy will host the webinar ‘Data spaces: Experiences from strategic data spaces’. With the aim of harnessing the value of data for the benefit of the European economy and society, the Commission is actively supporting the development of common European data spaces in 10 strategic fields as outlined in the European data strategy. This second webinar in the data spaces series will present the state of play and requirements of various strategic data spaces. The first webinar ‘Data spaces: Introducing the concept and

As part of the implementation of the Data Governance Act (DGA), the European Commission has introduced common logos to identify trusted data intermediation services and data altruism organisations. The logos allow to differentiate recognised trusted services from other services, contributing to transparency in the data market. Once the services are identified, they have to display the common logo clearly on every online and offline publication that relates to their activities. The DGA defines a set of rules for providers of data intermediation services to ensure that they will function as