The recently improved open data maturity inter ac tiv e website offers a refreshed, interactive way for policymakers, data professionals and citizens to explore how European countries are progressing in their open data journey. Designed to make the yearly assessment easy to navigate, the interactive website brings together scores, country profiles and key insights in a single user-friendly interactive website. A core functionality of the interactive website is its interactive visual dashboard. Users can explore country’s maturity scores across the four dimensions of the assessment – po licy

Companies all across Europe spend significant time on administrative tasks, inhibiting focus on innovation and slowing cross-border activity. To address this, the European Commission has created European Business Wallets , a harmonised digital solution designed to simplify how businesses identify themselves, authenticate themselves and exchange data across Europe. The initiative was formed as part of the Commission’s 2025 Digital Package and aims to reduce administrative burden for many organisations . The Business Wallet will enable companies to manage their key documents digitally, including

Get ready to mark your calendar for our upcoming data.europa academy webinar ‘Smart cities and digital twin technology: the case of Bologna’ on Friday, 23 January 2026, from 10:00 to 11:00 CET. Following the previous smart city webinars on Rotterdam and Dublin, this third edition will highlight the Bologna Digital Twin project. Urban digital twins are playing an increasingly relevant role in city governance processes, raising key questions about how data, models, and artificial intelligence systems are produced, governed, and made accessible to public actors and the wider community. By

The new year has just begun, making it a good moment to reflect on the data.europa academy’s achievements in 2025. Over the past year, we hosted 18 webinars covering a wide range of topics. We kicked off with a session on the European Data Strategy and continued with themes such as Open judicial data, AI, and transparency in the digital age . One of the highlights was the three-day data visualisation workshop with Alberto Cairo, who showed over 2600 participants how to build meaning from data, communicate insights clearly, and give the right context through effective visual storytelling. The

Croatia’s national open data portal, data.gov.hr , is designed to make public sector information accessible and reusable for everyone. The portal serves as a central hub for datasets published by government institutions, supporting transparency and enabling citizens, businesses, and researchers to benefit from open data. The portal provides access to more than 3,000 datasets across domains such as economy and finance , government and public sector , and population and society . Users can find information on government spending, demographic statistics, energy consumption, and environmental

We are thrilled to share the findings from our 2025 User Survey, an initiative which helps deepen our understanding of the wants and needs of the European Data Portal’s users. From Monday, 1 September, to Sunday, 13 October 2025, we invited you to share your thoughts on how you use our portal and what matters most to you. The response was incredible, and your feedback is already guiding the next steps towards improving the European Data Portal. One key trend revealed that for most of the respondents (39%), the main source of open data is the European Data Portal. The survey confirmed what we

Europe’s open data landscape is evolving rapidly, and so is the way in which we measure progress. In the latest report, titled ‘Framework for Open Data Maturity – Country Profiles and Clusters’ , we mark a significant shift from traditional ranking systems towards a more nuanced approach. The report introduces tools that help policymakers understand the strategies behind success, which is crucial as the EU continues to prioritise data-driven governance across member states. The report highlights two new innovations: descriptive profiles and macro clusters. Profiles categorise countries based