In the first edition of Award for Good Administration organized by the European Ombudsman, the ESI Funds Open Data Platform won the award in the 'Open Administration' category. The platform features all the five Structural Funds, 28 countries, 530 programmes and covers 42% of the EU budget. It provides intuitive visualisations of the investment themes and meets the demands for detailed data on EU funds (in 2016, it was viewed 1.8 million times). The awards, in the word of European Ombudsman Emil
- 30 March 2017
In the first edition of Award for Good Administration organized by the European Ombudsman, the ESI Funds Open Data Platform won the award in the 'Open Administration' category. The platform features all the five Structural Funds, 28 countries, 530 programmes and covers 42% of the EU budget. It provides intuitive visualisations of the investment themes and meets the demands for detailed data on EU funds (in 2016, it was viewed 1.8 million times).
The awards, in the word of European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly, aims at "share best practice, to bring greater awareness to the work of the EU and to recognise the frequently exemplary work of EU staff".