Portal support glossary

e-Government is about using the tools and systems made possible by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to provide better public services to citizens and businesses.

The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is a set of guidelines and recommendations developed by the European Commission for public administrations in Europe on how to set cross-border and cross-sector digital interoperable digital solutions.

The EIF Solutions Finder, previously called EIF Toolbox, helps users to find operational solutions that cover the alignment and implementation of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) and filter them by attributes.

ePractice brought together policy makers and practitioners in the fields of eGovernment, eHealth and eInclusion, and helped them set up online communities to further pursue their common interests. In 2014 the European Commission migrated the ePractice platform to the Portal.

The EU Academy is an educational platform offering courses, training, and learning resources to enhance knowledge and skills on EU policies and digital transformation. The Interoperable Europe Academy hosts its courses on EU Academy.

The European Union (EU) supports the digital transformation of public administrations through various funding programmes. 

EU Login is the European Commission’s user authentication service. It allows authorised users to access a wide range of Commission web services, using a single email address and password. The Portal requires the use of an EU Login account to register and sign in on the platform.

The EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue is a curated repository on the Interoperable Europe Portal that showcases open source solutions developed or used by public administrations across Europe. It helps users discover, reuse, and share open source software, supporting interoperability, collaboration, and the adoption of digital public services across the EU.

The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) is the European Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) licence. It has been created on the initiative of the European Commission. It is now delivered in 23 original linguistic versions and can be used by anyone for software distribution. The EUPL is OSI certified and considered as a Free Software Licence by the Free Software Foundation.

Europa Analytics is the European Commission’s service that monitors and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of the Commission's websites on Europa. Both the infrastructure and software are under the full control of the European Commission and comply with the current EU data protection legislation. The Portal uses Europa Analytics for the platform’s web analytics requirements.

A framework developed under the Interoperable Europe initiative that provides a common reference model for designing and implementing interoperable digital public services across EU Member States. It offers principles, building blocks, standards, and guidelines to help public administrations build services that can interoperate, enabling cross-border and cross-sector data exchange, reuse of…

An event is an organised activity at a specific time and place (e.g., a meeting, a workshop, a webinar). Any registered user can create events to be published on the platform.