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In order to unleash its full potential, data needs to be legally open. What does this openness entail from a legal perspective and how can legal openness be optimally achieved? These will be some of the driving questions of our third webinar for data providers ´Understanding open data: legal openness` , which will take place on Friday, 18 November at 10.00 – 11.30 CET. Organisations and governments use open data licenses to explain the conditions under which their data can be used. Data owners need to take decisions regarding legal openness of their data when making it available to the public

On Friday 21 October, the webinar ‘ Understanding open data: technical openness ’ took place. This webinar was the second of a series of trainings organised by data.europa.eu academy to support data providers in the data publishing process. Specifically, this webinar focused on the need for open data to be technically open, i.e., freely accessible and available in non-proprietary and machine-readable formats. From a technical perspective, openness can also be described according to degrees, following Tim Berners-Lee´s 5-Stars Model , with the first degree meaning that data is available on the

The 'Big Data Test Infrastructure' (BDTI) was created by the European Commission in 2019 and it is part of the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) . With a planned overall budget of €7.5 billion, DEP aims to accelerate the economic recovery and shape the digital transformation of Europe’s society and economy, increasing the availability, quality and usability of public sector information in compliance with the requirement of the Open Data Directive. The Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) is a test platform offered free of charge by the European Commission to European Public Administrations to

On 25 October, the 2022 edition of the European Day of Justice (EDJ) will be celebrated. The aim is to bring justice closer to citizens through a series of activities and events such as open doors, information and training sessions and panel discussions. This allows citizens to be best informed on their rights and to discover the work of the Council of Europe and the European Commission in this regard. The EDJ´s events are open to all EU citizen and are organised with the help of justice professionals, public authorities, international bodies as well as educational institutions across Europe

The 6th edition of EU Datathon, the EU’s open data competition, came to a close on 20 October 2022. The finals took place in Brussels as part of the European Year of Youth and were streamed online to a world-wide audience. We are thrilled to announce the winners! Empowering young people in the job market, reducing greenhouse emissions, and bringing European cultural heritage closer to citizens: these were some of the ambitions put forward by the 12 finalist teams of this year’s EU Datathon. The teams were shortlisted from an initial 156 entries from 38 countries, the highest participation in

With the increased use of open data, cyber criminals can use the information available online to create more realistic and individualised forms of tricks. Thanks to the European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM) – which this year celebrated its 10 th anniversary – public and private entities increase awareness among citizens about ways to identify legitimate sources of data and information. Organised by the European Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA ), the ECSM’s campaign is launched across Europe to raise awareness on cyber threats and how it can impact anyone in society. This October, hundreds of

On Tuesday 4 October 2022, the Digital Decade Futurium Community organised the webinar ´ Data Sovereignty in the Digital Decade `. The goal was to discuss what makes data a crucial cornerstone of the ´ 2030 Digital Decade policy programme `. The programme aims to realise human-centred and sustainable digital policies, able to empower citizens and businesses in a more prosperous and sovereign digital future. To disentangle the role of data in reaching these targets, the Futurium webinar invited Miapetra Kumpula Natri (Member of the European Parliament and Rapporteur for European Strategy for

Nowadays legislation is widely available online and accessible in various digital formats. However, the way in which legal information is organised, varies across the different legal systems of EU Member States, which tends to hinder the discovery, exchange and reuse of this information. The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) is a solution which aims to address this issue by providing a way to uniquely identify national and EU legislation online. Born in the framework of the Forum of Official Gazettes, the ELI project was officially endorsed by the Council of the European Union. The ELI

What are the opportunities from emerging trends in the geospatial community for data.europa.eu? How can data.europa.eu support and benefit from the new ways, including APIs, in which geospatial datasets are offered? The data.europa academy webinar ‘ Trends in geospatial data’ , that will take place on Thursday, 27 October at 10.00 – 11.30 CET, aims to answer these questions. After a brainstorming session on current trends regarding geospatial topics, the webinar will deep dive into two recent topics of interest for the future of data.europa.eu: Modernising INSPIRE … moving towards Open Data

The Use Case Observatory is a three-year-long research project by data.europa.eu. It aims at contributing to the portal’s broader goal to measure the economic, governmental, social and environmental impact of open data. To do so, the Use Case Observatory monitors 30 re-use cases of open data from 2022 to 2025, focusing on the services they offer, the data they use, and the impact they create over time. On the occasion of the launch of the first of the three reports foreseen within this research project, the webinar ´Stories from the Use Case Observatory – Volume I’ wa s organised on 7 October