Innovation through collaboration (21/10/2020)

Tackling Covid-19 by using an ad-hoc platform powered by Joinup (21/10/2020)

EASME’s EIC COVID-19 Challenge platform was launched following up on the COVID-19 EUvsVIRUS Hackathon and the EUvsVIRUS Matchathon event. How was it set up? How did Joinup help? We talked with Christoforos Korakas, who has been coordinating this new initiative.

Shaping the future interoperability policy (20/10/2020)

The European Commission is currently evaluating the ISA² programme and the European Interoperability Framework to present a reinforced public sector interoperability policy in 2021. It’s now your time to have your say!

Initiative "Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age" and Interoperability Academy (08/10/2020)

A new initiative by an international community of professors, teachers and practitioners creates synergy with the Interoperability Academy.

2020 Digital Public Administration factsheets (16/10/2020)

The 2020 edition is now out and provides an up-to-date overview of initiatives in the digital public administration and interoperability domains both at country and EU levels!

New resources in the OSOR Knowledge Centre (19/10/2020)

Check out the OSOR Knowledge Centre for new resources and information on open source software - a new list of OSS repositories, reports on open source policies in 28 European countries, and many more useful resources.

eIDAS Made Easy: The Quickstart Guide and Checklist for Your Business (08/10/2020)

What is eIDAS Regulation? Which eID and trust service is right for your organisation? How can they be used to benefit your SME or startup?

Canadian startup uses Re3gistry to Win Inspire Helsinki 2019 Data Challenge (08/10/2020)

This is an example how semantic data interoperability can be implemented by the private sector, making use of tools created by the European Commission.

New CSV validation service available (07/10/2020)

The Interoperability Test Bed launched a new service and detailed guide to support the configuration of validators for CSV data based on Table Schema specifications.

Tracking the COVID-19 (09/10/2020)

For COVID-19 contact tracing, here are 21 tools in whole or in part distributed as free, open source software, from various EU and third countries.

Connecting the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) with Smart Cities and Communities (EIF4SCC) (22/10/2020)

This work in progress intends to support primarily local administrations and, in particular, local policy makers.

A lot of fresh content in Digital Skills for the Public sector! (06/10/2020)

New collaborations, first Interoperability Academy course, interviews, projects and a lot of other news!

eParticipation and eVoting (06/10/2020)

Digital eParticipation solutions for petitioning, consultation on matters of common interest and e-Voting.

Common Mapping of Innovation Supporting Actors (06/10/2020)

Several websites provide information for SMEs on innovation supporting actors, which result in fragmented information. This project aims at developing a common interoperable model, so these websites exchange information with each other.

Open data (06/10/2020)

Open data solutions covering datasets, data visualisations, data analysis tools and services, best practices and guidelines will be shared in this collection.

APIs for the digital transformation (06/10/2020)

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the connecting nodes of the digital society. APIs are strategic components but they raise security concern, as they are vulnerable points in digital infrastructures.

Connect University (22/10/2020)

Explore a new solution dedicated to the latest digital trends and challenges, and linked to relevant EU policies.

CEF eInvoicing use case (08/10/2020)

The Interoperability Test Bed for eInvoicing conformance represents an interesting case study, given the service's evolution and certain novel concepts that have been included in its design.

The Hellenic OCR Team (08/10/2020)

The Hellenic Optical Character Recognition Team represents the first distributed scientific platform that aims exclusively at the processing and analysis of parliamentary data.

EU Datathon 2020: the open data competition (08/10/2020)

121 proposals later, discover who our 12 finalists are for EU Datathon 2020!

Digital Government Transformation MOOC (08/10/2020)

The Gov3.0 project consortium has launched the Massive Open Online Course on the Basics of Digital Government Transformation. 32 modules are available from e-government 1.0 to e-government 3.0.

DINAcon 2020 (23/10/2020)

DINAcon 2020 is the fourth edition of this annual event on digital sustainability. Experts and opinion leaders from politics, business, public sector, NPOs and open source communities will present their digitally sustainable innovations

November Virtual Breakfast: Policymaking after shock is digital-ready. Are you ready? (17/11/2020)

The current COVID19 crisis is teaching us many lessons in many different fields. This workshop tackles what it teaches us on policymaking.

How to create a post in the Joinup Community LinkedIn Group (14/10/2020)

The LinkedIn group was created with the purpose to facilitate the exchange of best practices and to initiate discussions on the use of open source software and solutions in public administrations.

Data makes the world go round (22/06/2020)

Publications Office of the EU (30/06/2020)

Discover how you can benefit from using code lists, EU Vocabularies and Eurovoc!

Interoperability Academy – updates! (10/06/2020)

We aim to offer the best learning experience to the European Public Servants! What features would you like to add to the eLearning platform?

New IMAPS specialisations: LIMAPS, OIMAPS, SIMAPS and TIMAPS! (16/06/2020)

Discover the new specialisations of IMAPS and assess the legal, organisational, semantic and technical interoperability maturity of your digital public service!

Test Bed sandbox instances (10/06/2020)

New step-by-step guide on how to use Test Bed to define sandboxes - pre-configured Test Bed instances.

Assessing the impacts of digital government transformation in the EU (18/06/2020)

Now available the new report "Conceptual framework and empirical case studies" of the ELISE "Exploring Digital Government Transformation study: Assessing the impacts of Digital Government transformation."

EUPL in Italy (10/06/2020)

RELAIS (REcord Linkage At IStat) is a toolkit for dealing with record linkage projects and EUPL-licensed.

New Joinup features & improvements put the user at centre stage (25/06/2020)

The latest releases for Joinup include numerous improvements, features, bug and security fixes, all adding up to a friendlier and more enhanced user experience.

Data Analytics for Member States and Citizens (25/06/2020)

As the COVID-19 crisis has made clear, data analytics is essential not just for public services to innovate but also to manage crises and save lives. This collection aims to foster discussion and collaboration.

Your ideas: Our plan! (10/06/2020)

The new Joinup collection on "Better legislation for smoother implementation" is now launched! Shape it with us!

Access to Base Registries (15/06/2020)

This collection looks at whether and how the opening up of the registries – with the appropriate security and privacy measures – can help foster the establishment of European public services.

New release on EU Vocabularies (15/06/2020)

Among the new additions to the standard set of the assets there are authority tables for EU Strategic priorities, Scoring values and also new tables associated with e-procurement.

Shared solutions in the public sector of Catalonia. AOC Consortium (14/06/2020)

The Open Administration of Catalonia (AOC) Consortium's mission is to promote the digital transformation of the Catalan authorities.

Software Reuse Catalogue (Belgium) (22/06/2020)

How to reduce cost, increase quality and decrease complexity in e-government? The Software Reuse Catalogue is a platform that contains more than 90 reusable components, contributed by a dozen government institutions in Belgium.

SSI eIDAS Bridge reference implementation (15/06/2020)

This bridge is a pilot focusing on providing a cross-border identity solution compliant with the eIDAS trust framework.

RDF validation service (15/06/2020)

The Test Bed offers a generic RDF validation service that can be used to validate arbitrary RDF content using SHACL shapes to check both syntax and business rules.

CEF European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) (15/06/2020)

EBSI is a joint initiative from the European Commission and the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) to deliver EU-wide cross-border public services using blockchain technology.

Webinar of "Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation" community! (08/07/2020)

Are you curious on how to formulate digital-ready policies and how to assess digital impacts of legislation? Join us for our first webinar!

ELISE webinar (09/07/2020)

What is the potential of Artificial Intelligence for geospatial thinking and how can geospatial data contribute to the momentum of AI? Join the ELISE webinar!

10th Samos 2020 Summit on ICT-Enabled Governance (13/07/2020)

The Interoperability Academy team will present the vision of the eLearning platform and its achievements. Register to test the first training module on EIF!

ICEGOV2020 (23/09/2020)

The 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance will be about "Digital Governance in the Era of Disruptive Technologies and Globalisation".

Government after shock – an unconventional event for unconventional times (17/11/2020)

This event will build on and explore the successes and lessons learned from government responses to Covid-19, examining how governments can integrate innovation and new ways of working.

Federation of solutions (15/06/2020)

By federating solutions with Joinup, external repositories instantly expand their user-base and expose their interoperability solutions to like-minded parties in need of them.

We’re in this together (29/03/2020)

Digital response to COVID-19 (06/04/2020)

On 2 April, a new Joinup collection was launched. It contains a large (and still growing) database of digital solutions, resources and projects that help tackle the coronavirus crisis. We have talked to Monika Sowinska, Project Officer from DG DIGIT’s Interoperability Unit, who has been coordinating this new initiative.

Covid-19: "We vs Virus" hackathon (DE) (25/03/2020)

The hackathon is a starting point for an ongoing participatory process to develop collaborative solutions for the challenges posed by COVID-19.

Website Evidence Collector (29/03/2020)

This tool supports the automation of privacy and personal data protection inspections of websites.

Using serious games in the geospatial domain (25/03/2020)

Serious games offer possibilities to improve communication and can be used to stimulate stakeholder involvement in collaboration in both policy-making and (on-line) service delivery.

Digital response to COVID-19 (02/04/2020)

The repository of digital responses to COVID-19 is a live project, which is updated on a regular basis and relies on your contribution too! Here you have access to a large resource database including open source software, websites, and platforms that are useful for public administrations, businesses, and citizens dealing with the ongoing crisis.

Better legislation for smoother implementation (29/03/2020)

Are you curious about the way legislation can foster the effective implementation of public policies? Join our community and you will learn about best practices around future-proof and interoperable legislation, share your own experience, connect with other practitioners, and stay tuned on related news and events.

The new phase of the Interoperability Academy! (29/03/2020)

We are happy to announce that the Interoperability Academy action opened a new chapter! Learn what we are preparing and how you can contribute to its development!

Interoperability Test Bed (31/03/2020)

EIRA conformance testing extended to support solution validation against detail-level SATs.

A Common Structured Format for EU Legislative Documents (29/03/2020)

Akoma Ntoso for European Union (AKN4EU) is the future machine-readable structured format for the exchange of legal documents in the EU decision-making process.

YUCCA Smart Data Platform (29/03/2020)

It is a cloud self-service platform enabling to develop applications based on Big Data from the Internet of Things, the Internet of People (social network), the systems and from public and private institutions.

Webinar on Open Source Software Policies (08/04/2020)

This webinar will be dedicated to open source country intelligence reports with guests from France and Italy speaking about the impact of formalised open source policies in their home countries.

ICEGOV2020: Digital Governance in the Era of Disruptive Technologies and Globalisation (23/09/2020)

ICEGOV has established itself over the years as a major conference in the domain of Electronic Governance (EGOV). The conference promotes the interaction and cooperation between universities, research centres, governments, industry, and international organisations, all of which are essential to the development of EGOV and its community.

OEB Global 2020 (02/12/2020)

OEB, ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, is the global, cross-sector conference and exhibition on technology supported learning and training. Every year, OEB pushes boundaries, challenges preconceptions and catalyses new ideas.

Empowering Joinupers (25/03/2020)

The latest releases for Joinup include numerous improvements, features, bug and security fixes, all adding up to a friendlier and more enhanced user experience.

Best wishes for 2020! (16/12/2019)

Pavlina Fragkou, from SEMIC (16/12/2019)

Semic is a thriving community and maintains one of the most dynamic collections on Joinup. In this interview, Pavlina Fragkou, Project Manager at the European Commission’s Interoperability Unit, sheds some light on Semic's goals and achievements. Find out how they use Joinup to reach them!

Interoperability Academy Workshop (19/12/2019)

Interoperability Academy team was glad to welcome 46 participants, including students, public servants, experts from private & public sector, representatives of similar initiatives and academia to present a new ISA² action: Interoperability Academy.

Report on Web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) (16/12/2019)

This report addresses the current use of APIs in digital government and their added value. It also assesses the feasibility of establishing an European API framework for digital government.

About OSLO - Open Standards for Linked Organisation (16/12/2019)

The main philosophy behind the OSLO-approach is to ensure the reusability of existing international standards (W3C, EU ISA Core Vocabularies, INSPIRE...) and to seek the involvement of a multitude of different stakeholders such as government, industry and academia.

Blockchains Unchained (16/12/2019)

You can now read this guide about blockchains, which aims to equip public servants with the necessary knowledge to understand what Blockchain architecture is and the implications it could have on government services.

Specification of Registry of Registries Version 1.00 (16/12/2019)

Here comes the stable and fifth release of the Specification of Registry of Registries!

Attendance Record Management Application (REGWEB) (16/12/2019)

REGWEB is an application to manage attendance records in public bodies. The application creates a record number and a stamp with the information in the record (office, date and time) to be printed on record documents.

ISA² interoperability test bed software 1.7.2 (16/12/2019)

This version focuses mainly on the extension of the templating capabilities that can be leveraged within GITB TDL test cases.

INSPIRE Conference (12/05/2020)

For the 2020 INSPIRE conference, the focus will be on sustainable digitalisation (digital transition) and digital sustainability (social, economic and environment) – in line with the reflection paper "Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030".

#KubeCon #CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 (30/03/2020)

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation will organise the #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon Europe 2020, a four-day event on open source solutions and cloud-native solutions.

Joinup is migrating to the EU Login authentication service (16/12/2019)

The integration of Joinup with EU Login brings a robust, highly secure, privacy-wary authentication mechanism to the platform’s users. With only a single account, Joinup users can connect seamlessly to all supported European Commission services and/or systems, including, of course, Joinup.

Unity is strength (11/10/2019)

Elena Muñoz of CTT (18/10/2019)

Spain’s Technology Transfer Centre (CTT) federated its repository of ICT solutions with the Joinup platform. Spain is now the first country whose solutions, 249 in total, can be found through Joinup and reused by users from across Europe and beyond.

SEMIC Conference 2019: follow it live! (18/10/2019)

Follow the conference live! Via live stream - starting on 21 October at 9:25 a.m. EEST (UTC+03:00). During the event, participants will have the possibility to use a conference app to engage with moderators. Join the discussions too!

Interoperability Academy - New ISA² action! (18/10/2019)

The Interoperability Academy action aims to teach the importance of Interoperability in the Public Sector and solutions from the ISA² programme.

A new release of VocBench3 is available (04/10/2019)

VocBench3 is the most mature OSS platform for advanced thesaurus management and its full compliance with W3C standards makes it perfect for the evolution of many organisations and authorities towards production and publication of Linked Open Data.

SEMIC-NIFO collaborate on LOD (04/10/2019)

SEMIC is collaborating with NIFO to provide a mechanism that converts NIFO factsheets into Linked Open Data, machine-readable.

API, chatbot & taxonomy study! (04/10/2019)

All reports include a section on how these technologies can support the Single Digital Gateway and the role of a standard data model like CPSV-AP in using efficiently those technologies in the public administration’s context.

Open Source alternative to WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: Tchap (21/10/2019)

The French government’s interministerial digital service created Tchap, an encrypted messaging service for public servants only to exchange confidential information. The main goals of the project are to ensure the security of the communication network and to improve the interoperability of the service between different administrations.

E-Government Innovation Center (EGIZ) (09/10/2019)

The Austrian eGovernment Innovation Center (EGIZ) deals with a great variety of eGovernment topics and can draw on many years of experience in the field of IT security.

Enter the ARE3NA! (09/10/2019)

ARE3NA is a resource sharing interoperability solutions in geospatial and e-government domains. To help the EU to implement the Infrastructure for Spatial Information for Europe (INSPIRE), ARE3NA is creating several reusable solutions that could be also adopted in other sectors, especially e-government.

Innovative public services (18/10/2019)

Modernising Public Administration is a race against the rapid development of new innovative digital technologies. Governments can do more to invest in innovative digital solutions to drive social impact, pull innovation to the market and foster value creation for example through promoting a European Gov.Tech or Civic.tech sector.

CTT: System of Interconnection of Registries (SIR) (21/10/2019)

It is estimated that there are more than 20,000 registration offices in Spain. The implementation of SIR allows eliminating the transit of paper between administrations, increasing efficiency and reducing costs.

Interoperability Test Bed (10/10/2019)

The ISA² interoperability test bed is a set of hardware and software resources offered as a central, standards-based reusable service, to facilitate interoperability and conformance testing.

Take the X-ROAD and exchange data safely (09/10/2019)

X-Road is an open source data exchange layer solution that enables organisations to exchange information over the Internet. X-Road ensures confidentiality, integrity and interoperability between data exchange parties.

Open Data BCN (09/10/2019)

Open Data BCN is the open data portal of the Barcelona City Council. The data catalogue uses CKAN software (Python), over which the opendatabcn extensions are built.

Digital Government Factsheets - 2019 (14/10/2019)

A novelty in this year’s factsheets is the use of a new template, providing streamlined information concerning the legal frameworks, strategies and infrastructure in place to support the Digital Government activities in each country. This has been done to reflect the ongoing paradigm shift from the concept of eGovernment to the broader one of Digital Government.

Open Source Summit Europe 2019 (OSSEU) (28/10/2019)

OSSEU is a conference and trade fair organised annually by the Linux Foundation. It is the leading conference for developers, architects, and other technologists, as well as open source community and industry leaders.

Interoperability Academy Winter School (11/12/2019)

The Winter School will provide participants with practical and theoretical insights on how to develop and implement interoperability solutions for digital public services offered to citizens, business and other public administrations.

How Open source and data exchange make better public services (02/07/2019)

JLA (Joinup Licensing Assistant ) (01/07/2019)

Are you wary of finding the right licence for your software ? Do you think that Open Source and licences are two contradictory terms ? Find out more about the importance of using licences and how to best find the most suitable for you in this interview of Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz !

Joinup satisfaction survey (27/06/2019)

Joinup’s popularity stems from its users – that’s you! Why not help us make it even better. Please take the time to complete this survey and spread the word to other colleagues or friends that could benefit by using Joinup.

Sharing & Reuse Awards results (21/06/2019)

The Sharing & Reuse Awards 2019 contest is now successfully closed for another round. Representatives of the 16 shortlisted solutions presented their exceptional contributions to developing Open source software solutions and Shared IT services for public administrations to the Conference plenary.

Workshop on catalogues of Public Services (04/07/2019)

The workshop presented real-life implementations of catalogues of public services based on the Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile (CPSV-AP).

EU-FOSSA 2 (21/06/2019)

Concerned by open source software vulnerabilities? Know that, one of the qualities of open source lies in its reliability and quick response to threats, thanks to its devoted and abundant community. That’s the reason why DIGIT launched EU-FOSSA by implementing the project "Governance and quality of software code – Auditing of free and open source software”.

ELI - European Legislation Identifier (04/07/2019)

Lost into the jungle of national laws ? Then turn to ELI (European Legislation Identifier): this system makes legislation available online in a standardised format, so that it can be accessed, exchanged and reused across borders.

Semic 2019 conference (21/06/2019)

SEMIC 2019 will explore the idea of trans-European data spaces available to public administrations and showcase how they connect these data spaces, cooperate and co-create solutions for innovative and citizen-centric digital public services.

LibreOffice Conference 2019 (10/09/2019)

LibreOffice is one of the biggest and more important free/libre/opensource office suite in the world, ported to the most popular platforms and with an estimated user base of 200 millions or more worldwide.

ELISE Action Webinar on Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) (15/07/2019)

Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) support managed identification and linking for a range of data-sharing resources, such as metadata, services, registries, vocabularies, and code lists. This webinar will focus on the need for PIDs as part of SDI, e-Government and Digital Transformation efforts.

Interministerial web conferencing (26/06/2019)

The interministerial web conferencing platform is a set of interconnected applications mainly based on the open source and WebRTC-compatible Jitsi project. It allows the officials of the French state to create and join online meetings directly from a web browser and it includes many features such as screen sharing, collaborative real-time documents editing and instant messaging .

ABR - Specification of a Registry of Registries (26/06/2019)

The development of a European Registry of Base Registries (ERBR), a pan-European registry of base registries, will improve the interoperability of individual base registries.

GeoDCAT - for geospatial datasets (25/06/2019)

GeoDCAT-AP is an extension of DCAT-AP for describing geospatial datasets, dataset series and services. It makes it easier to share descriptions of spatial datasets between spatial and general data portals, and thus helps increase public and cross-sector access to such datasets.

New roadmap for Joinup (01/07/2019)

On the road again ! Joinup constantly aims at improving the quality of its services and user experience. That's why a new roadmap has been designed to steer the future developments of the platform.

Joinup introduces another round of crucial user-centric features (27/06/2019)

Collection newsletters easily accessible to members, more user-friendly help menu, new ADMS-AP importer, first feedback from pilot integration with Spanish State repository.

Video: Webinar - Mastering Joinup to Your Advantage (21/06/2019)

Do you want to know more about Joinup's new features & improvements ? How to edit custom pages (using automatic table of contents & the query builder) ? Need to subscribe to a collection's RSS feed or newsletter ? Then watch this webinar now!

You are the cornerstone for a better future (26/04/2019)

Quality public services & encouraging cooperation, among the Slovenian government’s priorities (21/05/2019)

"Exchanging the solutions, concepts and experiences is the condition for innovation and modernity in the public sector" An interview with Danica Saponja, Editor-in-Chief of the NIO portal in Slovenia.

The Once-Only principle implementation in Malta (29/04/2019)

Malta launched an IT platform to allow public administrations to share data and IT resources. The National Data Portal is designed to enable the discovery, maintenance and consumption of "datasets". These are shared between the entities of at least fifteen different ministries, a number of subsidiary entities and autonomous authorities.

No silos, this is the motto of “Italia” the new collection for administrations in Italy! (26/04/2019)

As with all European countries, Italy has a solid digital agenda. Public data can be considered a precious informational resource for the country and, like an oil field, can be explored and mined to extract value. Based on this principle, the Italian government’s digital transformation team created “Italia”.

Catalonia’s public services are getting more and more agile (26/04/2019)

The Consortium Open Administration of Catalonia (AOC)’s mission is to promote agile, collaborative and consistent public administrative services in order to increase its residents’ quality of life. The AOC vision is to ensure that people benefit from efficient public services and live in an open society. Take a look at their numerous ingenious solutions.

Sharing & Reuse conference<br/>Bucharest, 11 June 2019 (11/06/2019)

Join the European Commission at its first-ever open source conference! Free registrations are open until 28 May 2019, so hurry to secure your spot as places are limited!

Webinar: Mastering Joinup to your advantage (28/05/2019)

Brought to you by the people who make Joinup tick, learn about the platform’s new features and improvements, how to leverage them to your benefit, as well as what’s in store for Joinup’s future.

Structured data is the fuel of artificial intelligence (18/05/2019)

Search engines deliver better results when the input data are already in a structured format. If this is combined with speech recognition and natural language processing, ‘bots’ can provide a fantastic tool for citizens looking for information on public services. Read more on the ISA² Programme’s SEMIC action by clicking below.

Euro HPC welcomes Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (29/04/2019)

High performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, involves thousands of processors working in parallel to analyse billions of pieces of data in real time, performing calculations considerably faster than a normal computer. In the digital era, it is at the core of major advances and innovations for Europe's future.

Joinup remains in sync with users’ requirements (29/04/2019)

The recent series of concurrent releases for the Joinup collaborative platform include numerous improvements, features and bug fixes, all adding up to a friendlier and more enhanced user experience.

Enjoy a virtual tour of Serbia! (26/04/2019)

2018 was the year of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. Consequently, in order to promote their own cultural legacy, the Serbian ministry of European integration developed virtual, interactive 3D panoramic tours of notable historical buildings in Serbia. It’s never too late to have a look!

Midpoint: harmonising identity management and identity governance (26/04/2019)

Changes are inevitable in life. This holds true for business, too. Transformation of business processes, policies and active organisational structures happen day in, day out in an organisation. To keep all such information up to date and secure, identity management and identity governance need to follow a harmonised path. The solution MidPoint makes this possible.

Create your HTML/XML content-based websites or intranets easily with LUTECE (26/04/2019)

Do you know which project won the Award for best open source strategy at the "Champion of Free Software" contest organised at the Paris Open Source Summit 2018? Its name is LUTECE: a free and powerful Java-based Content Management Framework developed by the city of Paris.

How to create same-page links using anchor tags (29/04/2019)

Are you looking for ways to create same-page links on Joinup? If you’re thinking of creating a custom Table of Contents, or linking to parts of the same page then you must check out this How-To article.

Webinar: Mastering Joinup to your advantage<br/>28-05-2019 from 14:00 to 15:30 CEST (GMT+1) (28/05/2019)

Do you have questions regarding the optimal use of Joinup, the concepts, the features, as well as the upcoming improvements planned for the platform? Then do not miss our webinar “Mastering Joinup to your advantage”. See you all there!

Could you imagine... (26/02/2019)

Could you imagine a world without smartphones, e-banking, electronic identification, online tax declarations, cash terminals accepting your national bank’s card in all Member States? And could your children imagine spending hours queuing in a public administration to get a visa or any other official document?

Obviously not. Our public services are increasingly becoming digital, and the next decades promise to be even more so. Europeans should be able to communicate with their public administrations through the simple click of a mouse or the swipe of a finger.

Our role is to support achieving this objective: the European Commission created Joinup to provide a common venue for you to find cutting-edge IT solutions and good practices, and to allow you to share your own solutions. The platform facilitates communication and collaboration on IT projects across Europe.

Discover the latest news and enjoy the reading!

The Joinup Team

"Don't reinvent the wheel!" Interview with Raúl Mario Abril Jiménez, EC Project Officer for the EIRA (13/03/2019)

"As an informatics engineer, I have a very simple principle, never reinvent the wheel! It is just a waste of time and money. Member States cannot afford to pay for costly developments if these already exist somewhere in Europe."

Make effective, informed, data-driven decisions for your city (26/02/2019)

When it comes to collaborative urban policy-making of bustling cities, you need all the help you can get to make effective, informed, data-driven decisions. The PoliVisu Toolbox enables cities to test a variety of policy strategies and actions with stakeholders using local data sets (i.e., road sensor data on traffic flows, historical accident data, traffic light data, pedestrian data etc.) and visually simulate potential impacts, without the need to deploy multiple, costly pilot tests.

A passport for your house (26/02/2019)

Home, sweet home! As a homeowner, would it not be neat to have access to a unique digital file of your house, providing you with an insight into all of the building’s relevant information, including energy efficiency, utility supplies, ground plans, licensed home improvement works, etc.? The Flemish government thought so, too, that is why they developed an innovative solution called Building Passport Flanders (Woningpas)!

Looking for a collaborative editing & management platform? (26/02/2019)

The EU’s multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-technological environment is what makes it a thriving community. And, naturally, it is also what makes it complex enough to achieve optimal ICT interoperability among Member States. One remedy for this is VocBench. This solution provides centralised management of multi-lingual controlled vocabularies and metadata used by public administrations, and also facilitates a web-based collaborative editing and management platform.

ELISE: harnessing the power of location-based data (26/02/2019)

Do you work in a public administration or the private sector and handle information, services or processes using location-related data? ELISE (The European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government) breaks down barriers and promotes a coherent and consistent approach to the sharing and reuse of such location data across borders and sectors!

Access to Base Registries – Webinar (10/04/2019)

The Access to Base Registries team is pleased to invite you to the Webinar on Specification for a Registry of Registries organised under ISA² Programme of the European Commission’s DG DIGIT on 10 April 2019 from 10:00 to 11:30h. Do not miss it!

SEMIC Webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Public Administrations (09/04/2019)

How can Artificial Intelligence bring value to public administrations in Europe? What technologies can be used by public administrations that enable different aspects of AI, including semantic web technologies? Join the interactive webinar organised by the SEMIC action of the ISA2 programme, find out more about that fascinating topic and discuss with our experts!

Sharing & Reuse Conference 2019 (11/06/2019)

Open source practitioners and advocates from public and private sector will discuss open source policies and strategies, and their implementation in Europe. They will talk about challenges and best practices in sharing and reusing software and IT services within public administrations. The event will address trends such as coding with citizens, co-creation or new approaches to OSS security. Register today!

Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2019 (26/08/2019)

To all geospatial specialists: Do not miss the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) conference! It is THE place to be, where all geospatial professionals (developers, data scientists, domain experts) in the private, academic and public sectors go to feel the vibe of the Open Source GeoCommunity, and check out the latest developments, innovative products and services.

Finland successfully migrates university libraries to free software backend (26/02/2019)

Academic libraries have -- as all sectors -- a need to reduce costs, improve service, etc. Many still use the same legacy software while others spend billions on licences for proprietary solutions. However, the National Library of Finland made the decisive step forward: They migrated to a free, open source software platform. By next summer, it will be ready for use by nearly all Finnish academic libraries.

May the Source be with you (15/03/2019)

Fresh from Joinup’s Development Team, check out the code that makes Joinup’s heart beat! Delve into each of Joinup’s releases to find out about the latest new features, improvements and bug fixes. And, being a EUPL-licensed project, you can fork it or even use it as-is to create your own collaborative platform!

Make the best out of Joinup (26/02/2019)

Do you know how to create a solution on Joinup, to properly structure its information and efficiently use the site to your advantage? Take a look at a few tips that will help you do all this and more on Joinup.

A single market in the digital age... We're on a good path! (14/11/2018)

One digital market. This is among the Commission’s top priorities.How? By eliminating complex, paper-based and superfluous processes, developing common standards, and sharing existing IT solutions among Member States.

That’s exactly what Joinup promotes: an open and collaborative platform with plenty of solutions ready to be reused. And you are playing an active role in all of this!

In this issue we present you the latest collections and solutions available on Joinup, along with a very enthusiastic interview. And, as always, we showcase the most recent and noteworthy news and events that have popped up on Joinup.

Good reading!

"Joinup is the ideal dissemination platform for our open source solutions." A testimonial from Francesca Bria from the Barcelona City Council (28/11/2018)

Barcelona City Council is actively promoting the use and reuse of free software, open source solution and open standards inside and outside the City Hall. It is one of the most active collection on Joinup

Joinup, alive and kicking! (14/11/2018)

Public administrations, businesses and citizens in Europe will increasingly benefit from interoperable cross-border and cross-sector public services. Joinup was developed to accelerate this fundamental change, and it keeps evolving...

Compete in the Sharing & Reuse Awards 2019! (15/11/2018)

On 29 November, Mariya Gabriel, the Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, officially launched the Sharing & Reuse Awards 2019! The contest will highlight the most innovative and impactful IT solutions for public administrations. Do you want to become the next public sector digital champion? Submit your solution by 28 February 2019!

Young developers help Greece merge amendments into laws (13/11/2018)

This summer, computer science students in Greece contributed code that could help the Greek government automate the process of keeping the country’s laws up to date.

More municipalities in Sweden to emphasise sharing and reuse (13/11/2018)

Sambruk, the e-Government services development project involving 85 of Sweden’s 290 municipalities, will increasingly focus on open source solutions. At a meeting last week, the Sambruk board decided to prefer ICT solutions that facilitate sharing and reuse, and that make it easy for other public services to contribute to their development.

ELI at the Flemish government (13/11/2018)

The team behind the Flemish Codex were aware of the many advantages of Linked Open Data (LOD) and the European Legislation Identifier (ELI) system. After carrying out an impact analysis, they decided to create a proof-of-concept of the implementation.

European Commission and Open Source Observatory at Paris Open Source Summit (05/12/2018)

At this Paris Open Source Summit, the European Commission's Open Source Observatory (OSOR) will hold an interesting two-hour session dedicated to security and national policies on the use of open source software in public administrations. Check the details!

Joinup Licensing Assistant presented at EOLE event in Paris on 5 December (05/12/2018)

This year the European Open source & free software Law Event (EOLE) will take place during the Paris Open Source Summit 2018. Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, Joinup Legal and Licensing Expert, will present the concept of the Joinup Licensing Assistant. Make sure to check it out!

Other events (19/11/2018)

Have a look at more interesting events available on Joinup

The European Interoperability Architecture (13/11/2018)

The ISA Programme is providing concrete interoperability solutions that contribute to making the modernisation of public administrations a success story. The European Interoperability Reference Architecture (EIRA©) is one of the solution developed to guide public administrations in their work.

Europe Public License - EUPL (13/11/2018)

Clear licensing rules are the regulatory basis for the sharing and reuse of software solutions, supporting legal interoperability. The European Commission has published the European Union Public License (EUPL), a guide for all IT developers, practitioners and users to define the conditions under which a certain solution may be freely shared and reused.

Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications (13/11/2018)

"CAMSS" is an initiative to promote collaboration between EU Member States in defining a "Common Assessment Method for Standards and Specifications" and to share with other countries the assessment study results for the development of e-Government services.

Interoperability test bed guides now available (20/11/2018)

You already heard about the Interoperability Test Bed (ITB), an online platform to test IT systems used in the delivery of cross-border public services. A set of thematically organised guides is now available which can be used for reference or self-study to quickly get up to speed on how to use the Test Bed. Take a look!

E-id, an essential tool for a digital Europe (19/11/2018)

eIdentity and eSignature are essential tools for a digital Europe, as seen from the perspective of interoperability among public administrations in different Member States. Have a look at relevant solutions from various countries such as Belgium, Greece, Poland, France, Italy, Malta, and the Netherlands.

How to promote your collection? (21/11/2018)

Take a look at a few guidelines and tips on how to increase awareness of your Collection and animate it.

Animating our community is key success factor. A few tips from the LEOS team (03/12/2018)

LEOS (Legislation Editing Open Software) supports people involved in draſting legislation – a complex process – by facilitating efficient online collaboration. Comments, suggestions, version control, co-editing, everything is possible… Here’s a testimonial from the LEOS team.

Joinup receives a new stream of improvements (04/12/2018)

The recent series of concurrent releases for the Joinup collaborative platform include numerous improvements, features and bug fixes, all adding up to a friendlier and more enhanced user experience. Below we present the most interesting of these newly introduced changes.