With a very large majority, the European Parliament has voted on its position on the Interoperable Europe Act and is now ready to enter trilogue negotiations! The Parliament leaves no doubt that it is highly dedicated to have more interoperability of public services in the EU.

After a very successful edition, the annual SEMIC-conference will take place in Madrid on the 18th of October. Join the hundreds of professionals out of the public, private and academic sector for what will be a dynamic day of knowledge exchange on AI, interoperability and semantics.

A new feature of this year's SEMIC Conference are the Pre-Conference workshops on 17/10: special sessions that give you more in-depth discussions about this year's central theme on AI, semantics and interoperability. Registration is open!

To mark its 15th anniversary, OSOR will hold a special conference on 21/11 about open source in the EU public sector. It will include representatives from all political levels, debates and lectures by top experts, and the OSOR Awards grand finale!

After the Forum’s relaunch in May 2023, the eDelivery team is excited to invite interested service and solution providers to another Forum’s meeting on 28/11. This is your opportunity to contribute to the standards-based and more efficient digital public sector in Europe!

Under the heading "Transform public services in the age of AI", the newest edition of the GovTech Summit will take place in Brussels on 23/11. Themes explored are the empowerment of public servants, the rethinking of supply chains and the security of our digital Future.

The European Commission's Open Source Observatory (OSOR) will hold an award show that honours exceptional open source solutions and initiatives developed for public administrations in Europe. Applications are already open and will last till the 21st of September!

The European Commission has published the second progress report on the Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-Based Digital Government. This report provides an overview of the implementation progress of the Member States in transforming society digitally according to the ethical commitments they made.

In NIFO's latest popular factsheet series, 31 European countries reported their status in transforming their public administrations digitally. A new annex also summarises a country’s status in key topics, such as interoperability, innovative use of technologies and data sharing.

One of the new free e-learning course from the Interoperable Europe Academy enhances your understanding on aligning National Interoperability Frameworks (NIF) with the European one. Discover it now!

The Hellenic Organisation of Welfare Benefits and Social Solidarity successfully leveraged the IMAPS questionnaire to assess and improve the interoperability maturity of one of their public services. Georgios Lampropoulos, the Head of Software Department, shares the experiences of the team in an interview.

A new version of the DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP 3.0.0.) has been released. Discover its newest features and give the team behind DCAT-AP your feedback!

A new online guide of data.europa.eu enables you to unravel the art of data structuring, visualisation, publishing, and to do many other things! Make your work on data more impactful and adhere to the best open data practices!

As a teaser for the next SEMIC Conference on the 18th of October, a video has been released with some memorable moments of SEMIC 2022. We look forward to seeing you in Madrid for an equally unforgettable conference! ¡Hasta pronto!