The CAMSS Incompatibility Assessment Pilot invites EU stakeholders to evaluate interoperability compliance when integrating new standards in public services, covering legal, organisational, and technical compatibility with guidance and tools.

The European Space Agency and Guardtime have developed EOGuard, to ensure the authenticity of Earth Observation (EO) satellite data. When utilising KSI blockchain technology, EOGuard safeguards against data corruption and ensures the reliability of various applications.

The Pilot 1 of the GovTech4All project, devoted to ‘Secure information in cross-border data spaces’, had its first technical control meeting in November in Greece. Find out more about the meeting’s insights.

Registration for the EU Open Data Days 2025 in Luxemburg is open. Organised by the Publications Office, this event promotes the harnessing of open data's power and promises to bring together experts in the field, data providers, enthusiasts, and re-users from all over Europe and beyond.

Explore the 2024 Open Data Maturity Report, marking a decade of assessing Europe's open data landscape. It evaluates policy, impact, portal, and quality across 34 countries, offering key insights and recommendations.

Alina-Maria Brebenel, project manager at the European Commission's DG Digit, shared insights into her role overseeing the Interoperable Europe Academy and highlighted the Academy's mission to enhance digital skills within EU public administrations through free e-learning courses and various live events.

This month, we're taking a closer look at how open source is changing the way we do science and research. From university labs to environmental monitoring, open solutions are making science more accessible and collaborative than ever.

ePAS - Electronic Personnel Attendance System: ePAS is a system for detecting and managing staff attendance designed for the specific needs of Public Research Institutions. It was developped by the Italian National Research Council.

OSOR has published an update to the Cyprus Country Intelligence report, highlighting recent trends and developments in the use of open source software in the country and following up on the 2020 report. This updated report outlines the evolution in the use of OSS by the Cypriot public sector, reflecting the country's ongoing efforts to digitalise its public services and align with the EU's principles of openness, particularly in terms of access to information.

Trinidad and Tobago will establish its first Open Source Program Office (OSPO) after being selected by the Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE) initiative as a pilot country. The core goal of the initiative is to foster the provision of accessible, inclusive, and sustainable digital public services for local communities.

PHAIDRA, a digital repository system, is transforming how academic institutions manage, preserve, and share their data. With roots stretching back to 2007, this open source initiative began as an internal project within the University of Vienna, aiming to meet the growing demand for managing digital assets, research data and materials.

The “Decentralized data catalogs of the administration in Austria”, Data.gv.at, is expanding from open data to include an open source software search function. With this update, users can now access almost a hundred of open source applications of public interest.

A new plug-in for the Moodle eLearning platform, using machine translation for on-the-fly translation of training materials to EU languages, is to be made available as open source on code.europa.eu.

The KIOS Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE) of the University of Cyprus has developed the Sensor Placement (S-PLACE) Toolkit, an open source (OS) toolkit designed to determine optimal locations for installing contaminant sensors in water distribution systems.

In a move toward advancing transparency and accessibility in scientific research, the University of Zagreb has introduced its Open Science Policy. The policy reflects the University’s commitment to fostering open access to scientific data and publications, where the adoption of an open source approach plays a key role.

European digital initiatives are weaving a complex network of technological collaboration, with open source technologies emerging as the thread connecting institutional innovation across the continent. This month, we’ll look at some of the elements that constitute it.

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Code.europa.eu is the code development platform for open source projects by the European Union institutions, bodies, offices, and agencies. Over the next few months, the Commission Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) will put a spotlight on some of these projects.

Operating under the legal framework of the EU's Digital Product Passport which aims to advance transparency and environmental sustainability, Hamburg’s Fab City OS (OS stands for Operating System) is a collection of different open source software solutions divided into the "Fab City OS Suite" and the "Fab City OS Core" network.

Pingo is a project initiated by the Chair of Business Informatics at Paderborn University that was then further developped privately. It is an open source polling solution that allows users to participate online without registration to help with your facilitation efforts.