Volume #37

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the latest news from the Building Blocks.

The team launched the Digital Innovation Challenge at the Web Summit in Lisbon last week. More and more startups and SMEs are looking to think big, play smart and stand out (and win up to €50 000). Interested? We're organising an info session on 25 November 2019. Register here.

Between editions of this bulletin, please keep an eye on our events calendar, the latest news, success stories and uptake monitoring dashboard to see what's going on.

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Kind regards,

The CEF Digital Team

Success Stories / Policy

Estonia opened up its service portals with CEF

CEF eID and eSignature helped Estonia to expand more than 3,500 services across Europe!

Read the Success Story

The Digital Innovation Challenge Launched at the Web Summit 2019

At a packed opening ceremony, the Commission's Director for Digital Serivces Emanuele Baldacci and CEF Building Blocks programme manager Dietmar Gattwinkel announced the opening of our challenge for digital SMEs and startups, where the best submitted projects stand to win €50 000 (first place), €20 000 (second place) and €10 000 (third place).

eInvoicing Workshop on "Subcentral level implementation"

During the workshop, participants discussed how Europe's public sector will benefit from eProcurement automation and secured payment processes, ensuring the best quality public procurement.

CEF Building Blocks Presented at the Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum

The KSF meeting in Cologne was an important opportunity for discussion on the current and future use of disruptive technologies in public administrations, their impact, the potential benefits but also related risks, using current pilot projects as evidence.

Technical update

Update to CEF-managed code lists & eInvoicing validation artefacts

Through the CEF eInvoicing Building Block, the Commission provides a dedicated Registry of supporting tools and artefacts to implement the European standard on eInvoicing

Events

Last chance to "Meet eArchiving", 03-04/12, Brussels

Today (15/11) registrations close for the Commission's 1st CEF eArchiving event December 3-4 in Brussels. Let's discuss the all-important question of how to preserve and reuse your data. You will learn from industry experts on how eArchiving has helped them manage their data in the long-term.

eTranslation Workshop: Terminology in Language Technology, 29/11, Brussels

Understanding terminology is very important in various scenarios, such as authoring, translation and searching databases. In multilingual scenarios, selecting the proper translation for a term is an additional challenge.

4^thELRC Conference, 26-27/11, Helsinki

This event will focus on shaping Europe’s multilingual future through the sharing of language data.