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This edition brings together the latest updates across the Simpl Programme, from new capabilities introduced with the Simpl‑Open Gdynia release to the first Simpl-Open Development Blog Post, the upcoming Simpl-Open features and the Simpl-Live implementation. We also highlight the recent community exchanges with Coffee with Simpl, and look ahead to the upcoming Simpl Annual Community Event on 10 December 2026 in Brussels and on the Europe’s new Open Source Strategy.

Europe’s new Open Source Strategy places open source at the centre of technological sovereignty, recognising that transparent, interoperable and sustainable digital solutions are essential to reducing dependency on non-EU technologies and strengthening Europe’s digital resilience.

The Simpl Annual Community Event returns this year in Brussels, bringing together the community to connect, share progress and shape what comes next for data spaces.

The Simpl‑Open Gdynia release marked an important step in advancing the platform’s maturity, introducing new capabilities to support scalable and interoperable data spaces.

Discover the latest progress delivered in Sprint 32, including key roadmap achievements, ongoing developments, and a preview of what’s coming in future releases.

The second Coffee with Simpl session on 4 June 2026 highlighted the programme’s shift from strategy to execution within Europe’s evolving tech landscape.

The first Coffee with Simpl session, held on Friday 17 April, brought the community together for an open exchange on trust, interoperability and real world data space initiatives.

This edition brings together the latest updates across the Simpl Programme, from technical progress on Simpl-Open to new learning resources and upcoming community moments.

What’s next for Simpl-Open?

The Simpl Annual Community Event returns this year on 10 December in Brussels, bringing together the community to connect, share progress and shape what comes next for data spaces.

Simpl-Open was featured at Tech-X through a presentation focused on identity, trust, and access management in data spaces.

Simpl-Live has started a new phase of collaboration with selected European data spaces and initiatives, including LDS, SCDS, EOSC, DestinE, PPDS, and EHDS2.

We are excited to announce the launch of the new Development Status page, your central hub to follow Simpl-Open’s progress and get a clear view of what lies ahead.

Two new learning experiences are now available on the Simpl Academy, designed to support both technical and governance roles working with data spaces.

Across four recent sprints, Release 3.0 delivers improvements in onboarding, data services, platform and governance.

What open-source AI and ML tools are being used across data space initiatives today?

We are piloting a relaxed one hour drop in online where the community can ask questions, share feedback and speak directly with programme subject matter experts. No long presentations. Not recorded.

Simpl attended the recent Data Sharing Festival held on 18-19th March in Rotterdam. In the opening talk, Ana Juan Ferrer (DG Connect) introduced Simpl and shared the latest updates from the programme.

At the Annual Community Event, we heard a common question: where does Simpl fit in the wider landscape, and what makes it different? Simpl‑Open provides an integrated open‑source middleware layer that helps initiatives stand up interoperable, sovereign data sharing. The approach is to integrate proven components and build what is missing, so contributors avoid reinventing the wheel.

“The Marketplace” was a new feature at this year’s Annual Community Event.