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On 14 November 2022, the European Commission, European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a political agreement on the European declaration on digital rights and principles , proposed by the Commission in January. Once jointly signed by the three EU institutions, the declaration will set out the global approach to the digital transformation that the EU will take to foster growth, prosperity, security, competitiveness as well as societal well-being across Member States. In particular, the declaration will complement existing rights, contained for example in the GDPR

On 29 November 2022, the data.europa academy conducted a webinar on the topic ‘Geospatial harvesting on data.europa.eu’. The primary aim of the webinar was to introduce the type, origin and services of geospatial data that can be found on data.europa.eu and to explain the process of harvesting it. In the first part of the webinar, Dr. Thore Fechner (Head of Team for Open Data and Copernicus at con terra) discussed the ample amount of geospatial data that is available on the portal and walked through the entire process of geospatial harvesting from a geo-catalogue to the portal. He explained

The webinar ‘Understanding open data: legal openness’ was held on 18 November 2022. This was the third webinar of the data.europa academy series dedicated to data providers and focused on what data openness entails from a legal perspective and how it can be optimally achieved. The goal of the webinar was not to provide purely theoretical legal training, but also to identify best practices and resources that data providers can use to achieve openness and to realise when openness cannot be achieved. In the first part of the webinar, Hans Graux, lawyer at Timelex, provided an introduction on how

The Interoperability Unit of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) and the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU will host the 2022 edition of SEMIC: Data Spaces in an Interoperable Europe on December 6. This year the conference will take place both in person, at the Square Meeting Centre in Brussels, and online. More information on how to participate either physically or remotely, can be found here. The conference will revolve around the implementation of data spaces. In particular, the conference will offer support in overcoming obstacles in implementing