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‘The teams behind the apps’ is a series of videos made by the EU Datathon finalists. Get to know this year’s teams and their apps over 12 episodes, twice per week, in the run-up to the competition finals. On 20 October, the teams will pitch their apps to the jury that will select the winners. The audience will also have a chance to support their favorite team in the Public Choice Award vote. Register now to follow the finals online! The CROZ renEUwable team is competing in Challenge 1: ‘A European Green Deal’. Their app ‘renEUwable’ combines environmental, social and economic data analysis to

Save the date and join Smart Dublin’s webinar ‘ Open Data Climate Action Challenge ' on Wednesday 14 September 2022 between 12:00 – 13:00 CET! The webinar will feature a keynote speech from Professor John Sweeney, a Climatologist and a contributing author to the fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , before opening the floor to the seven shortlisted projects. Participants in the challenge were given two months to develop tools, dashboards, analyses and applications which address the climate crisis in some shape or form. A committee of representatives from

‘The teams behind the apps’ is a series of videos made by the EU Datathon finalists. Get to know this year’s teams and their apps over 12 episodes, twice per week, in the run-up to the competition finals. On 20 October, the teams will pitch their apps to the jury that will select the winners. The audience will also have a chance to support their favorite team in the Public Choice Award vote. Register now to follow the finals online! ‘Emma Monitors Malicious Activity’ (EMMA) is a prevention and early detection tool against fraud. It enables public institutions, journalists and civil society to

Following the decision to change the format of Tender Electronics Daily (TED) notices, from 14 November 2022, the Publications Office will start publishing eForms notices. More specifically, both the current standard forms and eForms will be displayed in TED and made available for reuse. To process both types of notices, TED data reusers will need to adapt their systems. To facilitate this shift, the Publications Office of the European Union will organise the online workshop ‘ eForms for reusers of TED data ’ on 27 September 2022 between 10:00 to 16:00 CET. Speakers in the workshop will inform

On 27 April, the European Union, the United States of America, and several international partners proposed a Declaration for the Future of the Internet . In this proposal, they set out a vision and principles of a trusted Internet and how to ensure that it is open, free, global, interoperable, reliable, and secure whilst continuing to protect and respect human rights online and across the digital world. The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom Programme contributes to this declaration and its vision by supporting several projects in various Digital Service Infrastructures (DSI) for a

On Friday 1 July 2022, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) began. On the day of their inauguration, the Czech Republic has published its programme for the duration of their presidency. The programme covers the priorities and main directions of the presidency and can be divided into two parts: Priorities of the Czech Presidency , and Programme of the Czech Presidency under the EU Council formations . The first part of the programme defines five priority areas: Managing the refugee crisis and Ukraine’s post war recovery Energy security Strengthening Europe’s defence

On 5 July 2022, the metadata exchange platform (MEx) was launched in Potsdam, Germany. MEx is a digital platform that maps metadata on research activities and (open) research data centred around healthcare at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in a transparent way, with the aim of facilitating data reuse. The platform is aimed to encourage academic discussions amongst scholars, researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence to accelerate research and innovation, data journalists, and others interested in healthcare research. MEx is the first joint public health project of the Potsdam-based

The European Commission’s Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard is a public online platform that shows the progress made in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) as a whole, and of the individual national recovery and resilience plans. The RRF was launched in February 2021 and with its €723.8 billion represents the cornerstone of the NextGenerationEU – the main EU recovery instrument to help repair the immediate economic and social damage of the pandemic. More specifically, the RRF provides EU Member States with loans and grants to implement reforms and investments

This year´s edition of the EU Datathon, the annual EU open data competition organised by the Publications Office of the European Union, promises to be particularly worthwhile. With 159 entries from 38 countries, the highest number so far in the EU Datathon’s history, we can expect an exciting final competition. Join us for the finals! They will take place on 20 October 2022. Book your place to be there, join in the discussions, and help choose the winner of the Public Choice Award! Meet our finalists 12 teams have been selected for the finals after two rounds of pre-selection, presided over by

Last November, the Publications Office of the European Union organised the EU Open Data Days . Over the three days (23 – 25 November 2021), the event showed the benefits of open data to more than 2300 EU public sector representatives, citizens and businesses under the main theme: ‘ shape our future with open data’. Over 70 speakers from across the world took the floor in six thematic sessions . Each of these sessions provided an overview of innovative techniques and best practices used in both the private and public sector. Moreover, they offered the participants valuable insights into open