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We are excited to announce that the  data.europa academy is live! Our team launched a packed curriculum with free courses designed for the open data community to learn what open data is and how to work with it. Whether you are a data provider,…

Are you an innovator or entrepreneur, eager to develop innovative solutions making use of space data? Then you can take part in the myEU Space Competition!  The competition aims to bring forward innovative solutions for mobile apps, wearables, tracking…

How can we unlock the potential of data and data science to provide answers to the most pressing questions of our time?  The global challenges we face today grow increasingly complex. To support problem-solving approaches and policymaking, innovative…

'The teams behind the apps' is a series of videos made by the EU Datathon finalists. Discover the people and their proposals for apps over nine episodes, once a week, in a run-up to the final event. At the competition finals in November the teams will…

We know that open data supports data-driven decision-making and has the power to create true societal value. Yet data-driven decision-making is not straightforward. It is both complex and multifaceted. Behind the datasets, there is a myriad of platforms,…

This week the Canadian Open Data Summit takes place online from 15 to 16 September! This two-day event is co-organised by the City of Montreal and the Secretariat of the Quebec Treasury Board and already celebrates its 6th birthday. The 2021 edition of…

Join the hybrid edition of the European Blockchain Week (EBCW) 2021 on 20-24 September in Ljubljana, Slovenia! The event is organised in the framework of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.  The event follows the new European…

Explore the recently published dataset to get insights into cases where Artificial Intelligence (AI) was used within European public sector bodies. The dataset is published by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in the context of the European Location…

To support applications for social good, Google AI published the Open Buildings dataset. This extensive open dataset includes building footprints, which are detections of buildings on an area of land. These detections are created with high-resolution…

EU Datathon is an annual competition organised by the Publications Office of the EU. It invites people from all around the world to build applications based on EU open data. This year, nine teams have been shortlisted to compete in the finals. You have…