A facilitator is responsible for the animation and management of a Collection or Solution. They have the responsibility and authorisation to manage memberships and to review the content that has been created within the Collection or Solution.

The Portal hosts and operates a catalogue of interoperability solutions and enhances this catalogue by federating other catalogues of solutions that exist outside of the Portal (i.e., at Members States).

FLOSS stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. According to the Free Software Foundation, free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

Discussion items on the Portal allow registered users to “follow” such items. When following discussions, users will receive notifications of any updates occurring to the item, such as when a new comment is added.

Some licence agreements grant considerably more rights than most End User Licence Agreements (EULA) provide. A free software licence grants the right to modify and redistribute the licensed software, both of which would ordinarily be forbidden by copyright law. In some cases, these rights are accompanied by copyleft restrictions, adding requirements to redistribution.