On 1 and 2 February 2018, the first OpenPM² conference attracted more than 550 people from the EU institutions, EU Member States, businesses and citizens to present one common and open to all project management methodology. Other 850 people followed the event via webstream.
14/02/2018
SEMIC 2018, the 8th Semantic Interoperability Conference will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on 14 June 2018. With the theme "Linked Digital Public Administrations", the conference will be organised by the ISA² Programme in collaboration with the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU.
30/01/2018
The European Commission has launched a series of public consultations related to the next generation of EU financial programmes. The views expressed in these consultations will be taken into account in the process of creating the proposal for the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework, which is the EU's long–term budget.
15/01/2018
The 8th edition of SEMIC, the annual semantic interoperability conference, will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 14 June 2018. The event, organised by the ISA² Programme of the European Commission in collaboration with the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, will bring together policy makers, IT practitioners and researchers interested in topics related to semantic interoperability for public administration.
09/01/2018
The first international OpenPM² Conference will enable sharing of knowledge and experiences between PM² project management practitioners, trainers and experts and project managers from all over Europe. Opened by the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel, and closed on the first day by the Director-General of European Commission's DG Informatics, Gertrud Ingestad, the conference will take place in Brussels on 1-2 February 2018.
14/12/2017
A new online register, launched on Tuesday 12 December, will make it easier to find and track EU decisions taken in the form of delegated acts.
05/12/2017
The ISA² Programme of the European Commission is launching a call for expression of interest in the development of a new core vocabulary on public events. Core Vocabularies are simplified, reusable and extensible data models that capture fundamental characteristics of an entity in a context-neutral way.
28/11/2017
The European Commission is organising a session on "Sharing and Reuse: open, efficient and innovative public services" in Paris on 6 December 2017. Its aim is to highlight and discuss some of the best practices in sharing and reuse of IT solutions across the EU. The event, held in English and French, will be part of the Paris Open Source Summit.
23/11/2017
We are happy to announce that the registration is now open for the Open PM² Conference 2018 held in Brussels, February 1 and 2, 2018. Open PM² is an initiative under the
20/10/2017
The ELISE action, managed by the Joint Research Centre under the ISA² programme, has just published a survey on its EU gazetteer activity. All interested parties are called to provide their assessment on the usefulness of an EU-wide gazetteer service that identifies the locations of places by specifying a geographic name, address, administrative unit etc.
06/10/2017
Today the ministers in charge of e-Government from 32 EU and EFTA countries signed a declaration on e-Government in Tallinn, Estonia. In the declaration, the ministers stressed the importance of the new European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and ISA² Programme.
05/10/2017
In the 6th year of existence, the open platform for sharing and discussing digital administrative solutions has undergone a complete remodelling. The Joinup platform offers IT developers the opportunity to promote, discuss and upload their own proven eGovernment solutions and to download those from others.
25/09/2017
The OCS software is a tool that has initially been developed to support organisers of a European Citizens' Initiative in the online collection of signatures. The tool streamlines both the data collection and its verification by the National Authorities.
08/09/2017
Version 1.0.0 of a Solution Architecture Template (SAT) on interoperability testing has been just released. This template describes how to integrate the ISA² testbed in the existing IT environment. Specifically, it describes the available resources, services and usage options and highlights what is needed to get started.
07/09/2017
We are glad to announce that the ISA² Twitter account has now over 1000 followers. The channel keeps everybody interested in interoperability updated on the latest news and events related to the programme. It also covers newly developed solutions under ISA², as well as interoperability initiatives of the European Commission such as the European Interoperability Framework.
04/09/2017
The European Commission has released a new version of the European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA©). The EIRA© is a content model that defines the most important building blocks required for the creation of interoperable eGovernment systems. It provides a common terminology for IT architects and facilitates the development of digital public services across borders and sectors.
17/08/2017
The European Commission has released a new version of its multilingual online survey software EUSurvey. The enhanced version makes it easier to create and edit questionnaires thanks to new useful features. The new release is also available as open source.
10/07/2017
The National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO) of the European Commission has published the report "State of Play of Interoperability in Europe 2016". The report, which was created with the support of the ISA² programme, presents the highlights of the results of the 2016 NIFO monitoring exercise and compares them with previous years.
27/06/2017
All material related to the recent SEMIC conference in Malta is now publicly available.
26/06/2017
The Director-General of Directorate-General for Informatics at the European Commission, Gertrud Ingestad, presented the new European Interoperability Framework (EIF) at the Digital Assembly held in Valletta, Malta on 14 June.