Simpl programme: Updates from the community
The Commission’s Simpl programme
[https://simpl-programme.ec.europa.eu/], designed to support secure
and trustworthy data sharing across sectors, has published a roadmap
[https://simpl-programme.ec.europa.eu/group/simpl-forum/discussion/simpl-open-roadmap-update-may-2025]
outlining development priorities for its open-source platform,
Simpl-Open. The roadmap, which reflects feedback from the first Simpl
Community Event held on Friday, 31 January, sets out planned
improvements for 2025 and 2026 aimed at making the platform more
user-friendly, automated and adaptable. 

Since January 2025, a first Simpl-Open MVP (minimum viable product)
has been available, offering core features such as onboarding
participants, publishing service offerings, and managing access to
data and infrastructure. The latest update, published in May 2025,
presents a refined roadmap and confirms the next releases for June
2025. Planned improvements include automated onboarding and credential
management, enhanced health monitoring, standardised API usage, and
support for infrastructure decommissioning and deployment scripts.
These updates focus on usability, automation and reducing manual work
in managing data spaces. 

As an open-source solution, Simpl-Open is a core component of the
European Union’s strategy to build interoperable and sovereign
digital infrastructure. It provides the foundation for the EU’s
emerging data spaces by enabling seamless collaboration while ensuring
transparency, security and control. By supporting standardised
approaches to governance, data access and resource management,
Simpl-Open contributes to a more connected and effective open data
environment in Europe. These efforts are closely aligned with the
ambitions of data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu/en], which
brings together datasets from EU institutions, agencies and countries
to support reuse, innovation and informed decision-making across
sectors. 

Simpl-Open continues to evolve in close collaboration with its user
community. With each release, it takes a step closer to delivering a
practical, scalable solution tailored to real-world data sharing
needs. As digital cooperation grows across Europe, Simpl-Open is
laying the groundwork for the data spaces of the future.  

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Publication Date/Time
2025-06-09T08:00:00+00:00
New roadmap outlines improvements to the EU’s open-source platform
for data sharing