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The annual Geospatial Trends 2022 report is now published on data.europa.eu. The aim of this report is to identify opportunities from emerging trends in the geospatial community and explore how data.europa.eu can benefit from the new ways in which geospatial datasets are offered and support the latest user expectations. The report concentrates on two trends of geospatial data that affect the European geospatial community: Modernising Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) and moving towards open data; and The role of geospatial information for Smart Cities. The report

The proposed innovations of the Data Act will greatly impact data holders, data re-users and the legal landscape in Europe . The webinar titled ‘Competition law in the data economy : H ow will the evolving legal landscape affect data markets? ’ , scheduled for Friday 27 January 2023 at 10:00 to 11:30 CET, will give a detailed picture of this impact and also present the ongoing discussions and evolutions around competitive and anticompetitive data sharing practices . The webinar will focus on the current application of traditional competition law and the anticipated impact of the proposed Data

This news piece is the final article in the data.europa.eu recap and outlook series and will focus on the available open datasets on the portal and metadata quality. Data.europa.eu aims to be the single point of access for all open (meta)data across Europe. To this end, there was a steady increase of open datasets available on data.europa.eu throughout 2022. Between 1 January 2022 to 1 January 2023 , the total number of open datasets increased from 1 306 809 to 1 5 03 404 , with most of these datasets coming from the thematic areas : “Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food” with 3 79 333

This is the second news piece in a series of three that will recap on the year 2022 and provide an outlook of what is to come in 2023. This release specifically focusses on the successes of the data.europa academy this year. In 2022, data.europa academy hosted 16 webinars on a broad range of topics. This included webinars in line with the main themes surrounding open data. The webinars on data and metadata quality , u nderstanding open data: legal openness , and measuring open data impact in Europe aligned with the technical, legal and impact themes respectively. The public webinars are

The data.europa.eu team wishes you all a happy new year! This news piece is the first of a series of three releases to recap and reflect on 2022 and to provide an outlook for 2023. This initial piece highlights a few publications and studies published in 2022 and gives a sneak-peak on what to expect in 2023. The publications and studies in 2022 covered several topics relating to open data. This includes technical topics (real-time and geospatial), legal topics (anti competitive law and the changing the legal environment ) and measuring the impact of open data. Examples of publications related

The data.europa.eu teach wishes you all happy holidays. As we prepare for 2023, we would like to thank all our data providers and data enthusiasts’ community for the support and engagement in our 2022 activities. We hope you will enjoy your holiday time with your beloved and if you want to treat yourself with some open data, don´t forget to check out our: Datasets , Statistics , Graph Search , and Metadata Quality Dashboard ; Data.europa.eu documentation on the portal, data quality, data citation and data visualisation; Publications , including the newly released Open Data Maturity 2022 ; Data

On 21 November 2022, the European Commission adopted the Interoperable Europe Act proposal to strengthen cross-border cooperation in public sectors across the EU. Public sector interoperability is the ability of administrations to cooperate and make public services function across borders, sectors and organisational boundaries. This Act introduces a cooperation framework across the EU that helps build a secure cross-border exchange of data and agree on shared digital solutions. For instance, the creation of the EU Digital COVID Certificate facilitated cross-border travel in the EU during the

The webinar ‘ From theory to action: automatic data publishing ’ will be conducted on Friday, 20 January 2023 from 10.00 to 11.30 CET. This is the fifth of a series of six trainings aimed at supporting data providers in their data publishing process . The webinar will be presided over by Simon Dutwoski from Fraunhofer who will take a deep dive into the publishing process on data.europa.eu and address the needs of data providers. Data.europa.eu is a catalogue of metadata describing data which is stored in data providers´ data repositories. Data providers are the publishers of metadata and are

On 18 December, it is International Migrants Day. On this occasion, the World Migration Report 2022 was recently published by the United Nations´ International Organization for Migration (IOM). The eleventh edition of this report aims to increase the understanding of migration throughout the world, by showcasing key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on complex and emerging migration issues. According to the 2022 report, the number of international migrants has increased over the past five decades, with 281 million people currently living in a country other than

The eighth annual report measuring the level of open data maturity across Europe is published. The Open Data Maturity (ODM) Report 2022 records the progress achieved by EU Member States as they push forward open data publication and reuse, as well as the different priorities set to enable this. The year’s report is based on a self-assessment survey that was completed by 35 countries. While remaining an EU-focused exercise, in fact, the ODM 2022 includes not only the 27 EU Member States, but also 3 European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries (Norway, Switzerland, Iceland), 4 candidate