A recap of our 2025 data provider’s workshop: Bringing the open data
community together in Tallinn
Last week, the European Data Portal hosted an exciting event in
Tallinn, Estonia! On 2 and 3 December, 35 participants coming from 20
different countries attended a workshop designed to bring data
providers from across Europe together. Over the two days, the workshop
had various presentations and networking opportunities, stimulating
knowledge sharing and learning opportunities.  

The first day was kicked off with a word of introduction by the
Publications Office of the European Union. Afterwards, there was a
keynote speech by the Estonian Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs
(JUSTDIGI).  

We finished the morning with the knowledge-sharing market, where each
country got the chance to share their country’s opportunities and
challenges relating to data governance, open data publication, and
data quality. After lunch, Hugh Gardner from the Publication Office of
the European Union facilitated a session on the Member State toolkit
for measuring open data impact, where Spain and France also got to
share their experience with measuring open data impact. The afternoon
continued with a presentation on the highlights of the European Data
Portal, focusing on the new version of the Open Data Maturity (ODM)
web page.  

The first day concluded with a session on High-Value Datasets (HVDs),
where representatives from Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands got to
share their perspectives and insights on this topic, as well as a
presentation on additional methods to measure open data maturity, with
a focus on the current ODM assessment process and method. On the
second day, we hosted the open data cafe networking opportunity and an
interactive session on how to measure metadata quality. We wrapped up
the workshop with a presentation of the policy landscape in the EU for
data and technology, as well as a panel discussion on the interplay
between open and protected data in the context of security. 

We would like to thank all the participants for their enthusiasm,
JUSTDIGI for hosting in the beautiful city of Tallinn, and DG CNECT
for their valuable insights. Bringing European countries together to
work on enhancing the usage of open data is crucial to enable a
stronger future of data sharing. 

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Publication Date/Time
2025-12-12T09:00:00+00:00
35 participants shared insights and connected through open data