DIGIT 🇪🇺

Technology news and information from the Directorate-General for Digital Services (DIGIT) at @EU_Commission. See also @HennaVirkkunen and @gaffey_veronica. 🇪🇺

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

Exchanging professional qualifications in health and social care in Finland got easier thanks to Once-Only Technical System.

Finland has launched a procedure for people who wish to apply to practise in Finland as a nurse, pharmacist or midwife.

🔗 https://t.co/cnI015IUlT

[Interoperable Europe @InteroperableEU]

.@EU_Commission has adopted EU Tech Sovereignty Package to strengthen Europe’s digital resilience, competitiveness & innovation.

The package includes:
👉Chips Act 2.0
👉Cloud & AI Act
👉EU Open Source Strategy
👉Digitalisation & AI in Energy Roadmap

https://t.co/aR4bc6b4uG

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

The EU Open Source Strategy was adopted today as a part of the Tech Sovereignty Package.

It promotes open, interoperable, and resilient digital ecosystems that reduce reliance on non-EU providers and move from the proprietary lock-in to open standards. 👉 https://t.co/fSzjbmiHfm

[Digital EU 🇪🇺 @DigitalEU]

🇪🇺 We are building the future...

The new Technological Sovereignty Package will allow Europe to develop, control and scale up critical technologies ↓

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

How can open source AI help public administrations deliver better, more transparent digital services?

Find out in @OSOReu workshop on driving public value through open source artificial intelligence.

📅 30 June, 10:00–12:00 CEST
📍Online

Register👉https://t.co/rxHqmnTmtt

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

We published further clarification on Cloud Sovereignty Framework - a key tool we created for our recent sovereign cloud procurement.

With it, sovereignty stopped being an abstract policy discussion. It became a requirement in public procurement.

🔗https://t.co/yqIPS1b5lC

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

A detailed map of buildings, Digital Building Stock Model (DBSM), helps researchers explore:

🔹rooftop solar potential
🔹links between building conditions and socioeconomic vulnerability
🔹the risks of floods and other disasters

And it's open source!👉https://t.co/4XI2vpqNx0

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

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.

🔗 https://t.co/liki99xRce

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

Can you distinguish the genuine technological breakthroughs from the over-promised trends?

Join iTalk by the EU’s Digital Innovation Lab with João Farinha & Orsi Nagy to learn how how technology foresight can support EU policy-making.

Register here👉 https://t.co/pKNAxjPCqN

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

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://t.co/mYkdGiIBeA

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

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. 👉https://t.co/mksbEbMA25

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

With the user’s consent, the information submitted to Once-Only Technical System (OOTS) can 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.👉 https://t.co/W0Cdci2QxF

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

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://t.co/3OlAlIbpY4

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

📢 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://t.co/X61yKdrfIG

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

The Once-Only Technical System allows public authorities to directly exchange population evidences, such as birth or marriage certificates, or proofs of citizenship.

Austria, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Lithuania & Slovenia have now onboarded theirs.👉 https://t.co/BEnWx06Udr

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

How do you get providers to offer sovereign digital solutions?

You include sovereignty in your procurement.

It’s what we did with our EUR 180 million Sovereign Cloud tender, that we now awarded.

The results are clear: sovereign European solutions exist👉https://t.co/kG5qV0sW9k

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

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://t.co/xAwUGBspt1

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

In the world of international education, training and career mobility, a person's achievements can easily get lost in translation.

The Commission's #OpenSource ELM ensures that a qualification earned in one country is understood in another.

👉 https://t.co/yVnJSZihsR

[Henna Virkkunen @HennaVirkkunen]

When I took office I set out a clear ambition: to make Europe an AI continent.

One year on from the launch of the AI Continent Action Plan, key elements are already being delivered, from the rollout of 19 AI Factories, to the proposal of the AI Omnibus.
https://t.co/7zEXtsvhGu

[DIGIT 🇪🇺 @EU_DIGIT]

One week left to apply for a Blue Book traineeship with us!

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

Apply here 👉https://t.co/ywozrlUsED