Description

This year will be a crucial year for the Member States to go-live with their national Once-Only implementations and to boost the exchange of live evidence through the system. The Commission has made it a strategic priority to support the Member States in this process.

During the Implementers Café #13, the Commission will present key activities, events, and initiatives to support the go-live of the Member States in 2025.

For example, the Lithuanian and Commission organising teams will provide details on interactive workshops and other agenda items of the ‘Europe goes Once-Only – Lithuania edition’ event on 3-4 April 2025. In addition, the Portuguese team will share first-hand information about the forthcoming ‘Europe goes Once-Only – Portugal edition’ event scheduled for Q3 2025.

This Café will also offer useful insights on the ‘Once-Only Technical System Projectathon #6’. The participants will be invited to share their feedback on the domains, test cases and exploratory sessions of this testing event. Moreover, this Café will be a chance to debrief the latest meeting of the Gateway Coordination Group and discuss remaining questions.

Finally, the Commission will introduce two Once-Only communication initiatives:

• ‘EUREKA – Master the Art of Story’ is a 3-month programme that will support national coordinators, communications professionals, technical project leaders and passionate individuals involved in the OOTS in becoming effective OOTS Ambassadors, capable of telling compelling narratives about the system’s benefits.
• The ‘Once-Only Couch Conversations’ initiative aims to support the Member States in promoting their Once-Only success stories in the form of short and impactful pre-recorded interviews. The Member States will be able to use these interviews to promote their successes to a national audience.

This Implementers Café will provide more details on these initiatives and how to participate.

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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’.

Jorge Sousa is the national coordinator for implementing the Single Digital Gateway in Portugal and leads the preparation of the event ‘Europe goes Once-Only – Portugal edition’.

Saky Kourtidis is the designer behind the EUREKA initiative. A creative, entrepreneur and writer, he works on applied innovation and service design.

Maxine Lemm is an advertising professional, writer, and editor. In addition to her work as IT product officer for DIGIT, she is a dungeon master threatening to kill your darlings.

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.

Oleksandra Smutchak has worked for DIGIT for more than five years. She now works on communications and outreach activities for the Once-Only Technical System and heads the EBSI stakeholder management office.