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Hello,

Welcome to the latest edition of the CEF Building Block Bulletin.

This week's highlights include how the European Commission is leading the way as a digital administration, following the first use of an electronic signature for an agreement with the World Bank.

We also see very encouraging news - reuse of the CEF Building Blocks increased by 50% in the first half of 2020. In what has been a difficult year for everyone, its heartening to see the Building Blocks helping European services go digital as the physical economy faced lockdowns.

We also have technical updates and information on upcoming web conferences and webinars.

Do you have a story to tell us about how you are Connecting Europe? Just reply to this email and be featured in our next newsletter.

The CEF Digital team

Success Stories / Policy

CEF eSignature service used to sign World Bank agreement

The European Commission and the World Bank electronically signed a partnership agreement, which guides the terms under which the Bank Group will use EU funding for development projects across the world.

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CEF Building Block adoption reaches new heights in first semester 2020

Adoption has reached an all-time high of 316 projects during the first half of 2020. This represents an increase of more than 50% compared to the first half of 2019.

10 Digital Innovation Challenge Finalists announced

Europe's Digital Innovation Challenge has received many applications from EU startups and SMEs, but only 10 candidates could be selected to further develop their ideas in a Bootcamp with our experts.

Technical update

CEF eArchiving: Review of eArchiving procedures open

The Building Block is now seeking members of the eArchiving community willing to contribute to this review of six procedures and guidelines that support the CEF eArchiving specifications.

CEF eInvoicing Code List update, September 2020

This consists of a new version of EAS code list, with one code added (0209) and one deprecated (9958) and the publication of a full listing of the code lists as used in EN16931 with four codes updated (0205, 0206, 0207, 0197).

Events

CEF Context Broker and BDTI webinars, 24 & 29/09

Learn how the Context Broker and BDTI Building Blocks help you make sense of the data available through your city's information systems, and make the right decisions to improve the public services you offer to your citizens.

CEF eArchiving webinar: DBPTK - an eArchiving solution for database archiving, 24/09

This webinar will allow you to better understand the issues involved when preserving databases and overarching information systems and discover the different preservation strategies that apply to databases and the pros and cons of each

European Week of Regions and Cities 2020, 13-14/10

Several sessions during this years' virtual instalment will look at how the CEF Building Blocks are transforming Europe's regions and cities. Register for: Digital for cities (13/10); My Multilingual Services - powered by AI (13/10) and How can regions boost digital services? (14/10).

Once Only Principle Project Web Conference, 23/09

This event will present the project achievements in piloting the once-only principle and will also focus on the handover of the TOOP project solutions to a CEF Preparatory Action.

2nd CEF eTranslation Conference: Tools and Services for a Multilingual Europe, 14/10

This virtual conference will explore the topic "Tools and Services for a Multilingual Europe", showcasing smart eTranslation applications and the latest tools for enabling multilingualism.