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<p class="h5">3 - 4 April 2025 | Vilnius, Lithuania</p>
<h1 class="h2"><span class="heading-subtitle">Onsite event</span>Europe goes Once-Only – Lithuania edition</h1>
<p>Accelerating the onboarding of national competent authorities to the Once-Only Technical System</p>
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<div class="information-col"><p><a class="link external" target="_blank" href="https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/vilnius/vnosy/hoteldetail"><span>Hotel Holiday Inn Vilnius</span><span class="sr-only">(opens in a new tab)</span><span class="ico-external"></span></a><br> Šeimyniškių g. 1, Vilnius, 09312 Lithuania</p></div>
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<div class="information-col"><p>3 - 4 April 2025</p></div>
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<div class="information-col"><p>Competent authorities connecting to the Once-Only Technical System stand to benefit most from this event, notably those in the population, education, and business domains. In addition, this event will be a great opportunity for technical leads to prepare live transactions. This event is also open for Single Digital Gateway national coordinators and team leaders responsible for implementing the OOTS in their Member State.</p></div>
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<div class="information-col"><p>No fees are charged to participate in this event.</p></div>
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<div class="information-col"><p>The Commission can cover the reimbursement of travel costs for up to four (4) participants per Member State: up to two (2) from the national team, and up to two (2) representatives of competent authorities.</p></div>
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<h2>Description</h2>

<p>The onboarding of competent authorities to the Once-Only Technical System continues to be a major strategic focus in 2025. This is a fundamental step in delivering an effective technical system that will reduce the cross-border administrative burden for European citizens and businesses and help optimise cross-border procedures.</p>

<p><i>‘Europe goes Once-Only – Lithuania edition’</i> will be a key event for engaging with competent authorities and helping them connect to the Once-Only Technical System, especially those in the population, education, and business domains.</p>

<p>A second strategic focus in 2025 is to assist the Member States in conducting live transactions and rolling out Once-Only services. This event will support those Member States who are close to conducting live transactions in preparing for this crucial step through a dedicated workshop.</p>

<p>Finally, this event will be a great opportunity for discussing the value of Once-Only in the broader context of European interoperability and key initiatives, such as EU Digital Identity Wallets.</p>

<p><i>‘Europe goes Once-Only – Lithuania edition’</i> is co-organised by the Lithuanian State Digital Solutions Agency, the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Lithuania and the European Commission. </p>

<p>If you would like to learn more about the benefits of local Once-Only events, <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/OOTSICS/8-9+October+2024+%7C+Europe+goes+Once-Only+-+Finland+edition">access the report</a> from <i>‘Europe goes Once-Only – Finland edition’</i> (access restricted to OOTS implementers).</p>

<p>Your Europe is the portal and face of the Single Digital Gateway, a European Commission initiative enhanced by the automatic exchange of evidence thanks to the Once-Only Technical System.</p>

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<h2>Workshops</h2>
<p>As part of this event, the participants will have the unique chance to join several workshops targeted at different audiences:</p>

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<li><strong>Track 1 - Newcomers*:</strong> This workshop is for representatives of competent authorities who are new to the Once-Only Technical System.</li>
<li><strong>Track 2 - Population*:</strong> This workshop is for representatives of competent authorities responsible for population data.</li>
<li><strong>Track 3 - Education*:</strong> This workshop is for representatives of competent authorities responsible for any of the studying-related procedures and providers of education-related data.</li>
<li><strong>Tracks 4 - Business*:</strong> This workshop is for representatives of competent authorities responsible for evidence mapping in the business domain.</li>
<li><strong>Track 5 - Go-live - Coordination (Day 1):</strong> This workshop is for SDG central teams responsible for the coordination of the OOTS implementation in their country. 
<li><strong>Track 5 - Go-live - Technical and practicalities (Day 2):</strong> This workshop is for coordination and technical teams working on the implementation of the Once-Only Technical System in their Member State and SDG national coordinators.</li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>*</strong> Participants of tracks 1-4 should join the same track on both days.</p>

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<br><strong>10:00 - Welcome</strong> - <i>Tomas Misevičius, Director, State Digital Solutions Agency, Lithuania</i>
<br><br><strong>10:10 - Keynote speech: "Building a Seamless Single Market: Simplifying Cross-Border Administration"</strong> - <i>Mark Beamish, Deputy Head of Unit for Digital Transformation of Industry, DG GROW, European Commission</i>
<br><br><strong>10:25 - Keynote speech: "Accelerating digitalisation for European interoperability: Lithuania’s strategic vision"</strong> - <i>Lukas Savickas, Minister, Ministry of Economy and Innovation, Lithuania</i>
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<br>Overview of the value of the Once-Only Technical System for competent authorities, citizens, and businesses
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Jorge Sousa, SDG Coordination, Portugal<br>
Pedro Rosa, IT Coordinator, Portugal<br>
Alenka Žužek Nemec, SDG Coordination, Slovenia<br>
Stefan Pinczolits, Head of IT, Study grant authority, Austria<br>
Björn Lellmann, SDG Coordination, Austria<br><br>
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<strong>Moderator:</strong> Thomas Fillis, European Commission
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<br><br><strong>Track 1 - Newcomers - Room Columbus</strong>
<br>The objective is to introduce participants to the benefits of the OOTS for citizens, business, and public administrations, to showcase how the OOTS works and to discover the role of competent authorities and the services available to them. Participants do not need to have any prior knowledge of the OOTS.
<br><br><strong>Track 2 - Population - Room Heyerdahl</strong>
<br>The objective is to familiarise participants with the evidence mapping process and the Once-Only Common Services and to collect feedback from participating authorities on population related requirements. 
Participants should be familiar with what population data they are able to provide from their national registers and should compare that to the population requirements that will be used in the OOTS and are listed in the Evidence Explorer. 
<br><br><strong>Track 3 - Education - Room Cousteau</strong>
<br>The objective is to familiarise participants with the evidence mapping process and the Once-Only Common Services and to collect feedback from participating authorities on education-related requirements. 
Participants should be familiar with what education data they are able to provide from their registers and should compare that to the education requirements that will be used in the OOTS and are listed in the Evidence Explorer.
<br><br><strong>Track 4 - Business - Room Livingstone</strong>
<br>The objective is to share insights from analysis already performed by Member States to increase the velocity of the work and further prioritise the analysis of business procedures.
Participants should have completed some preliminary analysis on mapping business related procedures.
<br><br><strong>Track 5 - Go-live - Coordination - Room Discovery</strong>
<br>The objective is to develop a Europe-wide roadmap of the go-live of requesting and providing authorities.
Participants should be familiar with their own national roadmaps and understand when, approximately, their different authorities expect to go-live with the OOTS in their country.
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<br><strong>15:45 - Policy and technical evolution of the Once-Only Technical System within the Interoperable Europe framework</strong> - <i>Claudia Oliveira, IT Portfolio Officer for Interoperability and Digital Government, DIGIT, European Commission</i>
<br><br><strong>16:00 - Showcasing synergies with EU Digital Identity Wallets</strong> - <i>Pim Van Der Eijk, DIGIT (EXT), European Commission</i> and <i>Nils Mc Grath, DIGIT (EXT), European Commission</i> 
<br><br><strong>16:15 - SEMIC: Lithuanian data architecture project and synergies with the Once-Only Technical System</strong> - <i>Martynas Mockus, Senior Data Architect, State Digital Solutions Agency, Lithuania</i>
<br><br><strong>16:30 - Nordic-Baltic OOTS 2.0 Project</strong> - <i>Mervi Kylmänen-Paakki, Senior Specialist for the Single Market, Development and Administrative Service Centre, Finland</i>
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