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The European Commission opened infringement procedures against 19 EU Member States for failing to provide complete information on how the Open Data Directive is being transposed into national law. The EU Directive 2019/1024 , referred to as Open Data Directive, was adopted on 20 June 2019. Member States had to transpose the Directive into national law and notify the Commission on transposition measures by 17 July 2021. The Open Data Directive sets out minimum criteria for governments to share public sector information for re-use by commercial and non-commercial entities. By doing so, it aims

Missed the INSPIRE 2021 Conference ? Don’t worry, you can now find the recordings and presentations online. The 5-day event has been a great organisational success, with 13 interactive sessions followed live from 55 countries around the theme “Towards a Common European Green Deal data space for environment and sustainability”. The event clearly highlighted the relevance of the INSPIRE Directive - now more than ever - in creating awareness, competence, and capacity across Europe and making data discoverable and accessible. The D irective is a key enabler for exchanging and publishing geospatial

Register now for SEMIC, the semantic interoperability conference on 8 December. More and more sectors are taking initiative to set up data spaces and create a single market for data. Semantic interoperability is the key enabler for data to flow between different sectors across the EU. SEMIC 2021 brings the interoperability community together to discuss how datasets can be exchanged between data providers and consumers while protecting EU ethical and legal aspects, ensuring human centricity, and using emerging technologies. Organised by the European Commission , in collaboration with the

‘Secondary use of health data’ refers to the use of health data that is aggregated across the population, collected through electronic health records, health insurance claims data and health registry data for instance, to improve personal care planning, medicines development, safety monitoring, research, and policymaking. How ready is your country for such use of health data? Find out in the new interactive tool and report by the Open Data Institute (ODI) , which gauges the policy readiness of countries across Europe for the secondary use of health data. With this report, the ODI benchmarks

Recently, we launched the data.europa academy , a packed curriculum with free courses designed for you to learn what open data is and how to work with it. We are happy to announce that the first webinar as part of the academy was a success! Part of the course " Geospatial data and API delivery" , this first webinar served as an introduction to geospatial data. Antje Kügeler and Simon Jirka from con.terra and 52° North provided answers to questions such as: What is geospatial data and what are the main topics and thematic domains? Where does the geospatial data published on data.europa.eu come

Missed your chance to register for the EU Open Data Days? Don’t worry, you can still join us by following the live-stream. On 23 November you will discover the challenges and benefits of reusing data and making it interoperable. On the second day, data visualisation is put in the spotlight. You will learn about how to use visualisations to communicate data efficiently and to convey the right message. In addition, best practices, and techniques to build data narratives will be shared. Finally, on 25 November it is time for the grand finale of this years’ EU Datathon. 9 teams developed open data

The Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2021 is out, which provides statistics on the people, economy, and environment for regions of the EU. Statistical information is an important tool for understanding and quantifying the impact of political decisions in a specific territory or region of the EU Member States, EFTA countries, and candidate countries. The yearbook provides a detailed statistical overview on topics such as population, health, education, economy, tourism, and environment. Each chapter presents information in the form of maps, figures, and infographics, accompanied by a descriptive

Did you join the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) that took place over the last two weeks? This year marked the 26 th edition, bringing together parties across the globe to take action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change . Many environmental topics were discussed, one of them being deforestation and its relevance for reducing emissions. To achieve global net-zero by 2050 and keep the warming of the Earth to a minimum, serious emissions reductions are needed. To achieve this, countries not only need to eliminate the use

'The teams behind the apps' is a series of videos made by the EU Datathon finalists. Get to know the people and their proposals for apps over nine episodes, once a week, in a run-up to the EU Open Data Days . During this online event in November, the teams will pitch their apps to the jury who will select the winners in the competition finals. In this final episode you get to meet ‘PowerToYEUth. The team is competing with two other teams in challenge 2: ‘An economy that works for people’. PowerToYEUth is an application from Portugal that targets small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and aims to