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European cooperation enabling the mutual recognition of eID schemes across borders is moving at pace during the spring of 2019, and brings encouraging numbers.

The Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) received 49 project proposals by the 14 May deadline for the 2019-1 CEF Telecom call, requesting nearly €28 million in total EU funding (the total available budget for the call is €19,2 million).

After a successful message exchange pilot, Portuguese port administrations chose eDelivery as their preferred means for communication.

Visit the dedicated Smart Cities page on CEF Digital, bringing you the latest news and Success Stories on how the CEF Building Blocks enable European cities to become Smart Cities.

This document provides an overview of some of the main AS4 solutions and services available to eDelivery users.

On 25 April 2019, the National Archives of Germany invited CEF to present the eArchiving specifications, developed by E-ARK, including OAIS and METS that are open-source and easily accessible via CEF Digital.

In March 2019, the eInvoicing Ireland experts organised a workshop with CEF Digital to discuss the latest developments on the European standard on eInvoicing in Directive 2014/55/EU.

On the 19 March 2019, the CEF Big Data Test Infrastructure team held a webinar on experimenting with Big Data in the public sector. You can now download all the materials from this webinar.

This workshop addressed the issue that current public procurement processes are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of digital innovation.

Gertrud Ingestad, Director-General, DIGIT, presented how, when building a Digital Single Market, the Commission adopted the same approach which made Europe’s Single Market a success.

e-Boks has invested in scalable digital solutions, such as CEF eDelivery. A Connecting Europe Success Story, published in March 2018, explored how e-Boks chose to adopt CEF eDelivery to deliver secure messages across borders.

Reaching a solution required intense collaboration among public authorities, as well as between the public and private sectors, to reduce payment processing time and save on costs. But was well worth it.

On 2 May 2019, in Brussels, this workshop will address the issue that current public procurement processes are struggling to keep up with the fast pace of digital innovation in key application domains such as smart cities, health-care and energy. Mr Joao Rodrigues Frade, Head of Sector, will present the CEF Building Blocks in the session "SMEs & Public Procurement".

On 4 April 2019, experts from the European Commission and national and regional archives from Spain, Norway and Sweden presented the value of sustainable, authentic, cost-efficient, manageable and interoperable eArchiving in Madrid.

In March 2019, the CEF BDTI team held a webinar on experimenting with Big Data in the public sector. Visit the event page to download the slides and view the recordings.

Held in March 2019, the workshop’s hosts - eInvoicing Ireland - particularly welcomed the opportunity to bring the relevant people across the public sector together in a single workshop and provide them with all the information they need to implement eInvoicing.

As of 18 April 2019, European public administrations should be able to process eInvoices in the European Standard, supporting the mass-adoption of eInvoicing in Europe. An estimated € 920 million in savings has already been recorded between 2015-2017 through eInvoicing alone.

This conference highlighted current EU policies, legislative initiatives and funding opportunities to support sea & inland ports digitalisation - including the CEF Building Blocks.

Spain's Badajoz region is using Context Broker to digitally connect public administrations, local businesses and citizens to increase innovation, entrepreneurship and overall quality of life.