mastodon 4.7.3Technology news and information from the Directorate-General for Digital Services of the European Commission.
The new EU Open Source Strategy, adopted as a part of Technological Sovereignty Package today, is a game changer for public administrations.
The Commission is promoting open, interoperable, and resilient digital ecosystems that reduce reliance on non-EU providers and move from the proprietary lock-in to open standards and models. 👉 https://link.europa.eu/cVWcBr
Direct link to the strategy 👉 https://link.europa.eu/Pwtnjb
The press release on the full Tech Sovereignty Package 👉 https://link.europa.eu/FpwJxG
A small step for the @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ... Or a mastodonic one? 👀
The Commission recently finalised the EUR 180 million sovereign cloud procurement for the EU institutions. ☁️
Due to strong interest from public administrations and IT providers, we published further clarification on Cloud Sovereignty Framework – a key tool that we created to evaluate sovereignty of the offers.
With this framework, sovereignty stopped being an abstract policy discussion, and it became an operational requirement in public procurement.
https://code.europa.eu has a new look!
Our repository for free, open source software developed by the European institutions now highlights the trending projects and makes searching and contributing to projects easier.
code.europa.eu aims to make public-funded open source code more accessible and reusable for public services, citizens and businesses alike.
Read more 🔗 https://link.europa.eu/NMhTHn
𝐂𝐲𝐩𝐫𝐮𝐬, 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, and 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 have now published education evidence types in the 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦. 🎓
Citizens need these evidences - diplomas, transcriptions or proof of enrolment - when they want to study in another EU country, apply for a study grant or apply for the recognition of their professional qualifications.
At a users’ specific request, these can be automatically exchanged between Member States.
Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/dCWnxq
When SEMIC first came to Dublin in 2013, the focus was on achieving interoperability through reuse.
More than a decade later, SEMIC 2026 returns to the Irish capital with a new challenge: driving Europe's competitiveness.
Join us on 30 November 👉 https://link.europa.eu/RKdnjW
Austria and Finland have successfully done two live transactions through the Once Only Technical System (OOTS) in healthcare and the recognition of professional qualifications.
The OOTS is the EU’s secure infrastructure for government-to-government data exchange across borders ensuring that EU citizens and businesses submit documents just once, without downloading from one authority and uploading to another.
Renovation of buildings is essential for energy and climate action. The Commission’s Joint Research Centre is building an open source Digital Building Stock Model (DBSM) – a detailed map of Europe's buildings.
Researchers are already using it to:
🔹 estimate rooftop solar potential
🔹 explore links between building conditions and socioeconomic vulnerability
🔹 estimate the risks of floods and other disasters.
The code is now available on https://code.europa.eu 👉 https://link.europa.eu/jJR4ch
May the 4th!
Let's cut to the chase – there are several vacancies available in DIGIT, but, if you don't apply, there is no force that will help you get the job.
On EPSO website, select Information & Technology Domain for the full list 👉 https://link.europa.eu/f9dTTg
We are assessing market capabilities for carrier service infrastructure based on Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology.
Interested in applying for Commission's future tender? Let us know about your capacities!
Fill in the survey 👉https://link.europa.eu/Rp9ddV
Or help spread the word. 🙂
If we want to encourage providers to offer sovereign digital solutions, we must make sovereignty a requirement in our procurement. 💶
The Commission awarded Sovereign Cloud call for tender through which the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies will be able to procure sovereign cloud services for up to EUR 180 million over a period of 6 years.
And the results are clear – sovereign European solutions exist.
Austria launched an online procedure for whoever wishes to work as qualified social care worker that is now connected to the OOTS.
Salzburg now allows for the automatic exchange of docs when applying for to work as a qualified social care worker!
https://link.europa.eu/tmgrrkxk
Application for the Commission’s Blue Book traineeship programme are open!
While before you needed to have a degree to apply, this year, for the first time, those who completed Vocational Education and Training (VET) can apply too.
Check the requirements and apply, or share the news with those who might. 👉 https://link.europa.eu/fbX6Mb
Applications are open until 4 September.
In less than a week our Open Source Observatory (OSOR) is holding a workshop “Driving public value through open source artificial intelligence”.
Join and find out more about open source AI in public administrations, from AI infrastructure to European LLMs and use cases.
Register here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/9tfM3b
How can open source AI support public administrations while staying transparent, reusable, interoperable and aligned with public values?
Before you say: 'It can't', join OSOR workshop 'Driving public value through open source artificial intelligence'.
We’ll explore:
🔹 open source AI in the public sector
🔹 real use cases for public services
🔹 barriers to adoption and scaling
🔹 practical ways forward for governments
📅 30 June 2026, 10:00–12:00 CEST
Register here 👉 https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/form/driving-public-value-through-ope
The deadline for the 2026 edition of Public Sector Tech Watch Best Cases Award has been prolonged until 31 August.
Submit your emerging technology solution in these categories:
🏅 Service Delivery Impact - enhancing citizen-facing or business-facing public services
🏅 Administrative Innovation - supporting administrative processes & internal government operations
🏅 Policy Making - helping governments to design, evaluate or improve public policies
Read more & apply 👉 https://link.europa.eu/4DNMYW
Exchanging professional qualifications in health and social care in Finland got easier thanks to Once-Only Technical System.
Finland has launched an online procedure for people who wish to apply for the right to practise in Finland as a registered nurse, pharmacist or midwife.
Join us for SEMIC 2026, the Commission's conference on semantic interoperability and digital public services. 🌐
As Europe places competitiveness at the centre of its digital agenda, SEMIC 2026 will look at how reusable digital public infrastructure, common specifications and shared data help public administrations to:
🔹 avoid fragmentation
🔹 make better use of digital investments
🔹 deliver more connected services for citizens & businesses.
In the world of international education, training and career mobility, a person's achievements can easily get... lost in translation?
The European Learning Model aims to solve this by creating a universal ‘backbone’ that describes learning in a multilingual format.
A few tools are shared as open source on https://code.europa.eu, to allow reuse and help others to link their own systems.
Learn more in the new article by @EC_OSPO@ec.social-network.europa.eu 👉 https://link.europa.eu/QK6Rrp
SEMIC 2026, the Commission’s flagship conference on semantic interoperability and digital public services is open for registration!
Join us on 30 November in Dublin to hear more on how interoperability can help Europe build public services that are simpler, faster, reusable and ready to scale across borders.
Open source, reusable solutions and conformance testing are helping public administrations across Europe make digital services work together.
In this interview, Miguel Diez Blanco and Costas Simatos explain how the Interoperability Test Bed supports projects across Europe and beyond.
Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/GTRrYd
Can you distinguish the genuine technological breakthroughs from the over-promised trends?
Join the iTalk by the EU’s Digital Innovation Lab with João Farinha & Orsi Nagy to learn how technology foresight can support EU policy-making in times of uncertainty and accelerated innovation.
🗓️ 27 May, 14:30 CEST
Register here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/q6gmTD
What is new on the Interoperable Europe Portal?
Join the User Group Meeting on 4 June to explore:
🔹 updates on multilingualism
🔹 interoperability assessments
🔹 emerging technologies & AI in public sector
Register here 👉 https://link.europa.eu/DMbF6q
The Once-Only Technical System connects the national population registers and public authorities of EU Member States, allowing them to directly exchange population evidences, such as birth or marriage certificates, or proofs of citizenship.
This saves users from needing to find, check, download and re-upload the same evidence to complete a procedure.
Austria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Lithuania & Slovenia have now successfully onboarded their population evidences. 👉 https://link.europa.eu/qvdmmH
The #SEMIC conference is back!
SEMIC 2026: @InteroperableEU driving competitiveness, 🎇 will take place in #Dublin on 30/11.
Have a look at the first info and save the date🗓️!
The Commission recently presented EU Inc. to members of the Single Digital Gateway coordination group.
EU Inc. is an optional, digital corporate framework to help companies start, operate & scale more easily.
Member States should prioritise the availability of business procedures by 30 September 2026.
The Once-Only Technical System (OOTS) allows citizens and businesses to submit information to public authorities only once.
With the user’s consent, this information can then be securely shared between authorities across borders.
It reduces costs and admin burden for citizens and businesses, but also for public authorities in the EU.
The Commission published a summary of research on the benefits of the OOTS for public authorities. 👉 https://link.europa.eu/pphVp9
The Public Sector Tech Watch launched the ‘Best Cases Award 2026’.
The award recognises public administrations implementing emerging technologies in categories:
🏅 Service delivery impact
🏅 Administrative innovation
🏅 Policy making
Apply by 30 June👉 https://link.europa.eu/4DNMYW
📢 Calling all economic operators interested in participating in the future public procurement procedure for the provision of networking, telecom and videoconferencing equipment for EU institutions!
Fill in our market survey by 29 May 👉 https://link.europa.eu/jTyxyF
What do you need to boost interoperability in the public sector across the EU?
The public consultation for the Interoperable Europe Agenda of 2027 is open.
Tell us 👉 https://link.europa.eu/ppGmxT
📢 Don’t miss our iTalk on 1 July, 14:30 CET:
“CNPEM as a Platform for Disruptive Innovation and Global Co-Development”, with Claudia Caparelli. Discover fresh perspectives on innovation and co-development.
🔗Register here: https://link.europa.eu/nPdVnY
One week left to apply for a Blue Book traineeship with us!
Why should you apply? What's in it for you?
💫 Hands-on experience in delivering digital services for the EU institutions
💫 Skills for a global career
💫 Friends from all over the EU
💫 Occasional selfie with our Director-General 😏
What are you waiting for? 👉https://link.europa.eu/YNDggC
National coordinators from the Western Balkans joined a capacity-building workshop on the Single Digital Gateway & Once-Only Technical System, getting closer to aligning with essential EU standards.
Find out more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/QNMdV6
RE: @EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu
Don't forget to join us this Wednesday!
What kind of funding exists for open source projects in public sector?
Join the workshop organised by the Open Source Observatory where the speakers from @sovtechfund@mastodon.social, @decidim@freeradical.zone and iMio will share their approaches, challenges and lessons learned in funding open source projects.
🗓️ 30 June
Register here 👉 https://europa.eu/!4wjcd3