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On 18 March 2021, the European Commission launched the European Innovation Council (EIC) as part of the Horizon Europe programme. With a budget of over €10 billion this council will support and further develop breakthrough innovations between 2021 and 2027.

The EIC sponsors small- and… more

Since the summer of 2020, the European Data Portal (EDP) team has been summarising the six reports included in the “Sustainability of (Open) Data Portal Infrastructure” as featured highlights. This particular report will focus on the sixth report “A Distributed Version Control Approach to Creating Portals for Re-use”.

This report was prepared by… more

The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics took place between 16 and 19 March.

The Publications Office of the European Union and the ISA² programme of the European Commission joined forces to offer an opportunity for experts to tackle current and future issues in the fields of… more

The Smart City Innovation Framework Implementation (SCIFI) is a project where several European cities collaborate to activate the market for innovative solutions and improve public service delivery by making use of data. Recently, this project has identified potential avenues for cities to create value from their open data, including better quality data and improved findability.

Better quality data is less prone to errors,… more

In collaboration with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services (TAPAS) project, recently published an analytical report assessing how open data impacts the Ukrainian economy, in particular in the road sector.

Before 2013, it was impossible to track public spending on road reconstruction and… more

The European Data Portal (EDP) has published their 20th analytical report: “Copernicus Data for the open data community”. The report is prepared by con terra and aims to help open data enthusiasts exploit the potential of Copernicus data for earth observation… more

Haridussilm, the Estonian portal for education statistics portal, provides data of primary, general, secondary, vocational, and higher education for citizens of Estonia. This allows users to monitor various indicators such as success of lifelong learning, or labour market statistics.

The website serves as a useful tool for education representatives and policy makers to keep track of their education strategy goals and… more

A part of the EU’s Horizon2020 Framework Programme an innovation project that aims to create an “Open Innovation Test Bed” for nano-pharmaceuticals – “Phoenix” – was launched on 1 March 2021. This cross-European project is coordinated by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and… more

MTenderis a Moldovan website created by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova. The website:

1. Provides electronic public procurement records to raise the efficiency of spending and to increase transparency of the state’s budget;
2. Shortens the time between procurement planning and payment, time for tenders, and waiting time for suppliers and contractors; and
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Save the date and join the DigitALL Public conference taking place from 20 to 22 April 2021.

The DigitALL Public conference is the closing event of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital and the Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens (ISA²… more