Looking back at 2021 and looking ahead to 2022
As the year is coming to an end, the team behind data.europa.eu takes
stock of the past year and looks ahead to the next.

2021 featured many highlights. In April, data.europa.eu was born out
of the merge between the European Data Portal and the EU Open Data
Portal. By joining forces, not only were we able to make more open
data available, we also were able to show an even bigger audience the
great societal and economic potential of open data.

This became even more obvious during the EU Open Data Days
[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/euopendatadays], where over 2000
participants saw open data in action. Under the tagline of _Shaping
our future with open data_, the event featured the second iteration of
EU DataViz, an international conference on open data and data
visualisation for the benefit of EU public administration.
Additionally, the event hosted the finals of the fifth edition of EU
Datathon [https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon], a competition for
application developers from around the world.

Aside from this successful event, the data.europa.eu team launched the
data.europa academy [https://data.europa.eu/en/academy], a learning
hub for open data. It provides you with knowledge and tools to publish
high-quality open data that lives up to legal and technical standards,
whether you are an expert or just getting started. 

So, what’s next for 2022?

In February, we will showcase some of the open data best practices
from across Europe. The European countries presented many great
examples of open data re-use in the annual Open Data Maturity
assessment [https://data.europa.eu/en/dashboard/2021] and we will
discuss some of them in more detail during a dedicated webinar.

There are also several reports coming up such as the report on
citizen-generated data. On top of this, a grand revision of the portal
is scheduled for 2022 to tailor data.europa.eu even more to user
needs. 

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Publication Date/Time
2021-12-29T07:00:00+00:00
An overview of our recent activities and those on the agenda for next
year