The EIF Toolbox is designed as a guidance for national public administrations to equip them with the tools necessary to align their National Interoperability Frameworks (NIFs) with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) in order to promote interoperability at national and European level.
It contains guidance documents on the EIF’s policy background and implementation needs (EIF Policy), a set of reusable solutions (EIF Solutions) to tackle the alignment and implementation of the framework, and a community space to promote knowledge sharing (EIF Community).
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It s a framework undertaken by the European Commission in 2017 that gives specific guidance on how to set up interoperable digital public services.
As all EU countries are currently digitising their public administrations, the EIF offers 47 recommendations on how to improve the governance of their interoperability activities, establish cross-organisational relationships, streamline processes supporting end-to-end digital services, and ensure that both existing and new legislation do not compromise interoperability efforts. This will ensure that services are accessible, not only within their national borders, but also across countries and policy areas. In other words, they will apply interoperability in practice. This way, public administrations can to save time, reduce costs, increase transparency, and improve the quality of services that they offer to citizens and businesses.
- Watch this video to understand what the European Interoperability Framework is, in 3 minutes.
- Access here the European Interoperability Framework in pdf format.
The Interoperable Europe Academy is an educational initiative promoted by the European Commission. Its main objective is to boost public administrations' advanced digital skills in the interoperability field by offering all online, self-paced Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Three of them are related to the European Interoperability Framework and the EIF Toolbox:
- Interoperability: An introductory course. This course provides a solid understanding about interoperability, including the need for it, the interoperability environment at high level and the respective initiatives of the European Commission.
- European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Online Training. The course raises awareness around the importance of interoperability for the delivery of integrated public services. For doing so, it presents the European Interoperability Framework (EIF).
- The EIF Toolbox, support and guidance for the implementation of the EIF. The course give users an opportunity to learn about the EIF toolbox, its guidance documents on the theoretical background of the framework (EIF Pillars), and the operational solutions covering the alignment and implementation aspects to the EIF.
- Alignment of the National Interoperability Frameworks (NIFs) to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF).The course is designed to equip national public administrations with the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to align their national interoperability frameworks (NIFs) with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) in order to promote interoperability at national and European level.
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