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On Friday 20 January 2023, the webinar ‘From theory to action: automatic data publishing’ was hosted by data.europa academy. This webinar was the fifth of a series of six trainings organised by data.europa academy to support data providers in the data publishing process. This webinar focused on automatic data publishing and was presided over by Simon Dutkowski and Torben Jastrow from Fraunhofer and Bart Hanssens, Interoperability expert, Interoperable Europe. Open data enthusiasts and representatives of various EU institutions and European national public administrations participated in the

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its 38th Regional Development paper on governance and economics at urban and rural levels. The paper mentions the lessons from OECD countries on private-public collaboration using geospatial data and highlights the potential of combining traditional and unconventional data from both sources to facilitate cooperation between data providers and organisations responsible for public policy. One of the key findings of the paper is that the private geospatial data is frequently unavailable due to privacy concerns

This year the International Day of Education will be celebrated on the 24 January 2023. It is imperative to note that only education and upskilling the EU citizens will help achieve the set targets for the ‘European Year of Skills 2023’ and make the vision for digital transformation in Europe come true. Education can shape the employment landscape and aid in the overall development of the EU. Currently, many European companies are experiencing a significant skill gap and facing challenges in finding expert workers. About 3% of all available jobs are unfilled and 44% of EU citizens lack basic

A webinar on the eighth Open Data Maturity (ODM) report will be organised by data.europa academy on 10 February 2023 at 10.30 to 11.30 CET. This would be the first of a two-part series of webinars to build a deeper understanding of the recent 2022 report among the participants. The ODM report is based on a self-assessment survey which facilitated in measuring the level of maturity among the EU countries against four dimensions: policy, impact, portal and quality. According to the score measured, the countries were then clustered into four groups, from the most mature to the least. This will