15 April 2025 | 10:00 - 11:30
Online eventImplementers Café #14
Debriefing ‘Europe goes Once-Only – Lithuania edition’ and preparing the ‘#6 OOTS Projectathon’
Registration: Closed
Description
This Implementers Café will provide a unique opportunity to debrief the event ‘Europe goes Once-Only – Lithuania edition’ (3-4 April 2025). During this event, more than 200 participants from 22 Member States shared their concerns, ideas and visions of how public services can benefit from Once-Only. This Implementers Café will be an opportunity to review the events' key outcomes, share feedback, and discuss next steps moving forward.
In addition, this Café will provide important updates on the #6 OOTS Projectathon taking place from 11-12 June 2025 (with 10 June foreseen as a preparatory “Day 0” and 13 June as a travel day), where teams may ask questions related to this event.
Agenda
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10:00 - 10:10Welcome
Mark Beamish - Deputy Head of Unit, DG GROW; Thomas Fillis - DIGIT-EXT -
10:10 - 10:40‘Europe goes Once-Only - Lithuania edition’: Key outcomes and next steps
Eglė Šimukėnaitė - SDG national coordinator for Lithuania, Nils McGrath – DIGIT-EXT -
10:40 - 11:15Preparing the ‘#6 OOTS Projectathon’
Maarten Daniels - DIGIT-EXT -
11:15 - 11:20Once-Only Studio
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11:20 - 11:30General Q&A and closing
Thomas Fillis - DIGIT-EXT
Speakers
Nils McGrath has worked on European cross-border UX challenges for over five years. He now leads the Evidence Mapping subgroup and UX Lab in the context of the implementation of the OOTS.
Maarten Daniels has more than 20 years of ICT experience and has been working at DIGIT on the e-PRIOR, e-TrustEx, CEF eDelivery and SDGR OOTS projects as a business analyst, with a strong focus on analysis, architecture, technical design, security, quality and test management, user on-boarding and helping Member States implementing the solutions of the various projects. Currently he is the editor of the testing and deployment sub-group and in that context is one of the drivers behind the Projectathons.
Eglė Šimukėnaitė is the national coordinator for the implementation of the Single Digital Gateway in Lithuania and leads the preparation of the event ‘Europe goes Once-Only – Lithuania edition’.
Thomas Fillis works on communications and outreach for the Once-Only Technical System within DIGIT. Prior to joining DIGIT, he worked in the European Parliament as well as in the private and not-for-profit sectors.