Today is Europe Day , which celebrates peace and unity in Europe and marks the anniversary of forming a political cooperation in Europe that ultimately led to the creation of the European Union. To celebrate, the ‘European Year of Skills Festival ’ will be held at 14:00 CET, officially marking the start of the European Year of Skills 2023 . This year’s celebration highlights the importance of a skilled workforce and aims to address skills shortages in the EU. It promotes reskilling and upskilling and helps people acquire the right skills for quality jobs. Skilled workers will enjoy better job

In February 2023, the restructured data.europa academy was launched to support its evolution as a learning hub and single access point for open data resources from European countries, EU institutions, agencies and bodies. To easily discover and access relevant information and topics on the data.europa academy , the original 38 courses were regrouped into the following 11 courses: Introducing open data : to understand the concept and benefits of open data. Understanding the legal side of open data : to understand how legislation and regulations can impact the publication and reuse of open data

Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates opportunities to address societal challenges, such as climate change and public health. However, to ensure safety and respect for fundamental rights, a European approach to artificial intelligence has been defined. A key element of this approach is enabling the development and uptake of AI where the potential of data is crucial. This is in line with building a resilient Europe for the Digital Decade . The European Commission has set up a Coordinated Plan to enable the development and uptake of AI in Europe. This plan identifies three key actions to help

Today is World Press Freedom Day , which recognizes the importance of the services provided by press professionals and celebrates freedom of expression. This year’s theme is ‘Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of expression as a driver for all other human rights’. To observe the state of press freedom across 180 countries and territories, Reporters Without Borders developed the World Press Freedom Index . The index provides a world-wide overview on the level of press freedom on a scale from 0 (indicating low press freedom) to 100 (indicating good press freedom) with results dating back to

On Friday 12 May 2023 from 10.00 to 11.00 CET, the data.europa academy will host the webinar ‘Data spaces: introducing the concept and relevance in today’s world’. This is the first in a series of webinars on data spaces, presenting the European Data Strategy and the goal of forming a single European data space and creating a single market for data. This first webinar will introduce the concept of data spaces and the policy and legal framework supporting them. The European Data Strategy focuses on putting people first in the digital world by defending and promoting European values and rights

On Tuesday 18 April, the data.europa academy hosted a webinar on ‘Open Data Maturity 2022: Diving deeper into the quality dimension’. This webinar, the second in a series of webinars on the Open Data Maturity (ODM) Report 2022 , provided insights into the quality dimension, focusing on measuring and monitoring mechanisms to ensure the quality of data and metadata. The webinar started with an introduction to ODM 2022, the quality dimension and its four key indicators : (meta) data currency and completeness, monitoring and measures, DCAT-AP compliance and deployment and linked data. Following

The recent publication by data.europa.eu , ‘Assessment of the value of data and other types of assets in data.europa.eu’ , is the first in a series of reports focused on the value of data, metadata and other resources available on the data.europa.eu portal . The report presents methods to examine the presence of data.europa.eu content in other digital platforms, tools and applications and recommends related datasets and resources. The analysis builds upon previous research on the concepts, methods and architectures to make (open) data more sustainable. This shifted the focus of data portals

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform economies and offers opportunities for productivity, growth, and resilience. In response to this, many countries develop national AI strategies. However, there seems to be a lack of data or a targeted plan for national AI compute capacity required for AI systems to perform tasks. To help policy-makers assess and plan national AI compute capacity, the OECD.AI wrote a report ‘A blueprint for building national compute capacity for artificial intelligence’ . The report offers guidance on how to develop a national AI computing plan. There

On Friday 31 March, the data.europa academy hosted a webinar on ‘ The European Year of Skills and the role of open data ’. This webinar highlighted the relevance of this theme, focusing on digital skills and the role of the data.europa academy within the context of the European Year of Skills. The webinar started with a presentation from a European Commission representative on the European Year of Skills and the Digital Skills Platform . The targets of the European Digital Decade were emphasised and the variety of EU initiatives to implement these were shared. Following this, the

With a rapidly growing population, managing the physical infrastructure of cities is crucial. Open data can support countries in improving their digital infrastructure by, for example, creating opportunities and optimising transportation . Talking Traffic is a Dutch app that facilitates geolocation data exchange between road users and intelligent infrastructure within a public-private data chain to reduce the negative effects of mobility, based on real-time data. In particular, the members of the Dutch ambulance sector Association Ambulance Care Netherlands (AZN) decided that all ambulance