Commission welcomes EU Member States to Brussels for the third 2023 Once-Only Technical System Projectathon
05 September 2023 | 8 minutes read
On 18-20 October 2023, the European Commission is organising the third in a series of Projectathons in 2023, helping to realise the Once-Only Technical System.
Registration is open 1 – 12 September 2023 and Member State teams are registered directly through national coordinators represented on the Single Digital Gateway Coordination Group.
Projectathons are three-day events where national teams will connect various systems and perform a marathon of peer-to-peer interoperability and compliance tests in a structured environment.
For those Member States still preparing to register, there are five key steps to ensure a successful event.
5 key steps for a successful Projectathon
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Step 1
Download and read the event Playbook
1 September 2023
Download and read the event Playbook
This document explains the rational and objectives of the event and all practical details including for steps 3 and 4 here.
1 September 2023
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Step 2
Register your team
1 - 12 September 2023
Register your team
National coordinators are to share the registration link with their relevant experts and team members (joining either on-site or online), including the subsequent registration of your System Under Test (SUT) in the Gazelle testbed. Where possible, on-site participation is recommended to strengthen coordination between the participating teams. Individual team members can also pre-register for Exploration Rooms, looking at specific aspects of the OOTS (allowing teams to adjust their planning/testing schedules accordingly).
1 - 12 September 2023
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Step 3
Perform preparatory and connectivity testing
14 September - 13 October
Perform preparatory and connectivity testing
These preparatory tests are vital to ensure all teams arrive with a uniform level of preparedness and diagnose any possible network problems before the actual Projectathon (such as verifying the firewall configuration, DNS registration and port access rights).
14 September - 13 October
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Step 4
Join Kick-off meeting
13 September 2023
Join Kick-off meeting
Attend this briefing that will run through all aspects of the event and allow you to ask questions to the organising team.
13 September 2023
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Step 5
Bring the European spirit!
Before, during, after
Bring the European spirit!
This event brings together teams from across Europe and the Commission to help digitalise our single market. We are all in this together so – as with previous events – let’s stand ready to help one another.
Before, during, after
Implementing the Once-Only Technical System
An April 2023 Projectathon brought together participants and observers to perform key tests on their national Once-Only Technical System implementations.
A second event followed swiftly in June, allowing teams to work quickly on bug-fixes, adaptations and further developments.
The October Projectathon is the final such event in 2023, just ahead of the legal deadline for EU Member States to implement the Once-Only Technical System by December 2023.
For October, as with previous Projectathons, the Commission warmly encourages Member State teams to join on-site where possible, with hybrid participation possible. In both April and June, many participants have noted the positive value of being able to physically interact with other national teams, and the technical experts from the European Commission also present on-site.
“Always a pleasure to meet colleagues and talk to them fa e to face […] a great opportunity to learn and to improve."
“It was very difficult to communicate with other countries that were only remote."
“The value of this event is immeasurable.”
“Remote participation as [an] attendee was sometimes a little bit difficult.”
The Once-Only Technical System lets EU public authorities securely exchange official documents and data at the request of citizens and businesses as part of cross-border administrative procedures, e.g., when registering an address or vehicle when moving abroad. With the Once-Only Technical System, European Commission and EU Member States are committed to simplifying cross-border online procedures by allowing citizens and businesses to supply the same data to public authorities ‘only once’.
Learn more about the ongoing 2023 Projectathon series on the Once-Only Hub.