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Effective digital public services can provide a wide variety of benefits.

Digital-ready policymaking

Digital-ready policymaking considers digital aspects from start to finish to create policies that are future-proof and interoperable.

Observatories

Explore the reports on the state of play of digital public administration and interoperability activities.

Digital innovation

Discover how innovation (AI, Blockchain, GovTech) plays an important role in serving citizens better.

Semantics

Discover how semantics facilitates the data reuse.

Open Source Software

Discover the power of open source software in the development of European digital public services.

Reusable Software Components

Discover reusable software, services and specifications to facilitate interoperability in digital public services.

Smart cities

Discover how "Smart Cities" contribute to the well-being of their citizens and businesses.

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Virtual event

Dec 11 2025

Participate to the ApplyAI workshop: Identifying public administrations’ needs for AI adoption, on December 11th

The Public Sector Tech Watch invites you to join our workshop “ApplyAI: Identifying public administrations' needs for AI adoption” held online on 11 December from 10.30 to 12.30 (CET).

Last update: 09/12/2025

November’s highlighted content and updates on the Portal

Discover the Portal’s latest updates, including the newly released factsheets, new policy briefs and dedicated learning paths for EU public services and new solutions and releases. Explore the User Group Meeting highlights and the three new How-To article

Last update: 24/11/2025

Publication of the 2025 Digital Public Administration Factsheets

Discover the state-of-art of interoperability by country

Last update: 07/11/2025

4 key courses now available in all EU languages

The Interoperable Europe Academy is committed to making interoperability knowledge accessible to everyone across Europe. In this spirit, four cornerstone courses are now available in all EU official languages, ensuring that public servants, policymakers,

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Last update: 09/12/2025

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Dec 17 2025

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Justice IT toolbox

The IT Toolbox is one of the flagship actions of the Commission DigitalJustice@2030 Strategy. The aim of the toolbox is to achieve cost savings and to facilitate digitalisation of justice. Implementing successful tools…

08/12/2025

Public Sector Tech Watch

The Public Sector Tech Watch promotes knowledge around the use of emerging technologies in the European Public Sector.Pooling information from various sources, it aims at becoming the “one stop” for all stakeholders –…

03/12/2025

Solutions mentioned in an assessment

A space to host external to the Portal solutions mentioned in an assessment.

01/12/2025

Semic Conference

Building on previous successes, SEMIC include dedicated days of technical workshops. These sessions offer participants immersive, practical learning experiences, exploring key interoperability topics in depth.

25/11/2025

Interoperable Europe Academy

The Interoperable Europe Academy (IOPEU Academy) is an educational initiative promoted by the European Commission. Its main objective is to boost public administrations' advanced digital skills in the interoperability…

10/11/2025

EU LDT Toolbox

The EU Local Digital Twin (LDT) Toolbox is a flagship initiative of the European Commission that provides a modular, standards-based suite of tools designed to help cities and communities across Europe simulate, analyse…

04/11/2025

Open Source Observatory (OSOR)

OSOR is a place where the Free and Open Source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of Free and Open Source in…

31/10/2025

Digital-ready Policymaking

We are evolving from Better legislation for smoother implementation to Digital-ready Policymaking community! The content is being renewed, but your journey remains uninterrupted. Our objective? To make policies and legal…

29/10/2025

Interoperable Europe Community

The Interoperable Europe Community is an open and collaborative space established under the Interoperable Europe Act. It brings together public and private stakeholders, including experts, practitioners, researchers, and…

24/10/2025

INVEST - Interoperability Vision in Europe…

As Member States intensify their efforts to digitize public administrations, they face challenges in providing effective cross-border digital services, which are essential for the operation of the Digital Single Market…

22/10/2025

Portal support

The Interoperable Europe Portal, formerly known as Joinup, is the European Union’s central platform for promoting and supporting interoperability, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across public administrations…

17/10/2025

Interoperability assessments space

The interoperability assessments are a new instrument that can build on existing practices. We are learning together! You are encouraged to contribute to this forum by sharing your your experience, learnings and…

10/10/2025

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CAMSS Assessment of CAdES Baseline Profile 1…

CAMSS Assessment of CAdES Baseline Profile 1.3.1

09/12/2025

eSummary

The Summarization Service provides automatic text summarisation as part of the European Commission’s Language Tools platform. It uses NLP and AI techniques to generate concise summaries of long documents, supporting…

09/12/2025

EGVP-AddressBook

Addresses of e-Justice participants can be identified through an API using search criteria.

08/12/2025

Reporting Requirement Metadata Vocabulary…

1. IntroductionEffective policymaking relies heavily on monitoring, as assessing the impact of legislation and policies is crucial to determining whether specific objectives have been met. However, lack of coordination…

08/12/2025

CAMSS-as-a-Service (CAMSSaaS) DRAFT

CAMSS-as-a-Service (CAMSSaaS)

05/12/2025

CAMSS-as-a-Service (CAMSSaaS)

CAMSS-as-a-Service, provides a service which aim is the assessment of standards and specifications on demand through the use of CAMSS Tools. The author of the assessments is the CAMSS Team.

05/12/2025

DCAT Application Profile for data portals in…

The DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP) is a specification based on the Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) developed by W3C.The basic use case for DCAT-AP is to enable cross-data portal search for…

02/12/2025

ELI Pillar 4 Helper

The European legislation identifier (ELI) ‘Pillar 4 Helper’ is a tool that helps ELI publishers who are implementing the Pillar 4 specification according to the ELI standard. It is a solution by the Publications Office…

02/12/2025

DCAT-AP-reuse-guidelines

This document provides guidance for creating new DCAT-AP profiles. It outlines a structured approach to identify use cases, consider appropriate solutions, build consensus, and publish profiles that extend or specialize…

01/12/2025

Interoperability for Smarter Public Services…

This course will help you understand and use the concept of Minimal Interoperability in public sector ICT procurement, as well as learn how you can contribute to the European ecosystem of interoperable data and services…

28/11/2025

Introduction to publiccode.yml: Metadata for…

This course explores the publiccode.yml metadata specification, aiming to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to implement a publiccode.yml file in an open source solution and be onboarded in the EU OSS…

25/11/2025

Introduction to the EU Open Source Solutions…

This course explores the EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue, aiming to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to navigate, utilise, and contribute to the catalogue effectively. The key learning objectives for…

25/11/2025

What is the Interoperable Europe Portal

The Interoperable Europe Portal is the European Union’s platform for promoting and supporting interoperability, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across public administrations, businesses, and citizens.

It acts as a one-stop shop for discovering, sharing, and reusing IT solutions and good practices.

What's Interoperable Europe

It’s the European Commission’s initiative for a reinforced interoperability policy showcasing news and events about government-related interoperability, along with initiatives and best practices that support the digitalisation of EU public administrations.

Interoperable Europe covers the policy angle of interoperability.

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