ISA² - Interoperability solutions for public administrations, businesses and citizens

Actions

eTrustex

2016.19 Trusted Exchange Platform (e-TrustEx)

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a European public administration that needs to electronically exchange information with other entities in a secure way. e-TrustEx is a cross-sector, open-source, free-to-use tool that will help you to exchange structured and unstructured documents and to connect to pan-European e-delivery infrastructures with reduced investment.

2016.35 EUSurvey

When is this action of interest to you?

You would like to create and conduct multilingual online surveys with easy results analysis. With the user-friendly EUSurvey software (formerly IPM), which supports all steps of the survey process, you can collect any information you need. This open source, free-of-charge, web-based application makes it easier both for respondents to answer the consultations and for survey managers to analyse the results.

Competition law

2016.24 ABCDE - Administration, Business and Citizens' Data Exchanges in the domain of case management

When is this action of interest to you?

You work for a public administration that exchanges data related to competition law with other administrations, businesses and citizens.

You work in a company that exchanges such data with public administrations.

2016.05 European public procurement interoperability initiative

When is this action of interest to you?
  • You run a business that participates in public call for tenders.
  • You are a public buyer in charge of public procurement.
  • You are a public administrator in charge of issuing evidences needed in public procurement.
  • You are a service provider in charge of the aggregation of evidence data needed in public procurement.
Future Comitology Register

2018.04 Study on the future Comitology Register

​FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

While this action only concerns a study, the evolution of the Comitology Register is of interest for the EU Member State administrations and other EU institutions, as well as for stakeholders and citizens interested in particular policy areas or legislative instruments.

2016.09 IPv6 framework for European governments

FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

You are in charge of the digital network transition in your organisation.

2016.10 European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government (ELISE)

When is this action of interest to you?

This Action targets those working in public administrations or private companies that deal with information, data, services and processes using the power of location.

Sharing & Reuse

2016.31 Sharing and reuse                             

When is this action of interest to you?

You are working in a public administration and you are in charge of providing services based on IT solutions to citizens and businesses. 

You are a public administration technical expert or an IT manager in charge of developing and maintaining one or more IT solutions for your organisation.

You are a decision maker in a public administration and you want to increase efficiencies and cut costs, also in the IT domain.

You are a public sector official interested in the delivery of public services through innovative IT solutions.

2016.04 Participatory Knowledge for Supporting Decision Making

FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

You are an EU institution or a Member State public administration that wants to gather measures and analyse large quantities of data including citizens' opinions, needs and preferences by allowing the electronic participation of stakeholders. You are a European citizen wanting to voice your opinion and influence the decisions of your government. This action will contribute to making governments more open and participatory throughout Europe, by addressing the challenges around opinion elicitations with a main focus on reuse of existing assets.

EU Captcha

2018.08 EU-Captcha - FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

A CAPTCHA is a test intended to distinguish human from machine input. The objective is to offer to EU Member States an open source CAPTCHA released under the European Union Public License (EUPL) that is maintained by the European Commission, secure, user-friendly and multilingual. It will be delivered as a component that can be operated as a service. A CAPTCHA with such characteristics does not exist on the market. The solution delivered will be published on the GitHub platform so that it can be reviewed and maintained by the open source community. The action will also conduct a study investigating how to further extend the CAPTCHA with features that improve the user experience by replacing scrambled letters and numbers with more innovative and less intrusive approaches (e.g. gesture analysis, animations, images). The aim is to implement the conclusions of the study in the coming years.

2016.15 FISMA: Financial Data Standardisation

When is this action of interest to you?
  • You work in the financial sector and your institution or company has to report financial data
  • You are a representative of an institution collecting or analysing financial data
Standard-based archival data management, exchange and publication

2017.01 Standard-based archival data management, exchange and publication

When is this action of interest to you?

This action started with a study aiming at identifying existing data standards in archival information management and exploring IT tools and services supporting them. 

The action is also assessing available options for publishing the relevant part of the content of EU archives in open data format, through the different available platforms (like the open data and the European data portals) allowing Member States, citizens and researchers to interact with them and reuse them in different contexts.

2016.26 Interoperability agreements on electronic documents and electronic files                      

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a European public administration that needs to save costs and reduce the administrative burden. Defining common interoperability agreements in relation to the electronic documents and the electronic files will contribute to this objective.

2016.36 Assessment of trans-European systems supporting EU policies                                                     

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a European public administration that would like to increase its efficiency and decrease the costs. The rationalization of IT systems supporting EU policies will contribute to this objective by identifying reuseable building blocks.

2016.21 National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO)                                 

When is this action of interest to you?
  • You work in public administration and you are in charge of drafting or reviewing your country’s National Interoperability Framework.
  • You are responsible for an interoperability initiative.
  • You wish to learn more about the state of play of interoperability and digital public services in Europe.

2016.17 Interinstitutional framework for the digital management of the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP) and delegated acts                                

When is this action of interest to you?
  • You are drafting EU legislation, or you are otherwise contributing to law making
  • You are exchanging documents during legislative procedures
  • You are a public administrator in an EU country re-using documents that are part of legislative procedures at EU level
  • You are re-using information from the EU legislative procedure
Innovative Public Services

2018.01 Innovative Public Services

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a public administrator interested in using novel digital technologies to improve your services or policy-making.

 

2016.12 Semantic interoperability of the representation of powers and mandates

FUNDING CONCLUDED   

When is this action of interest to you?

You run a business and need information on the powers and mandates of legal entities in a certain country.

You are a public administrator in charge of data on legal entities.

2016.20 Joinup, the European collaborative platform and catalogue

When is this action of interest to you?

You are involved in the modernisation of public administration in your country. You are looking for good practices and reusable IT solutions to provide high quality public services in an efficient way.

You would like to publish and share an IT solution that your administration has developed.

You would like to collaborate with professionals from standardisation bodies, IT enterprises and public organisations in order to develop common IT services, software or specifications for public administrations.

2016.32 European Interoperability Architecture (EIA)

When is this action of interest to you?

You work in a public administration. A cross-border public service is about to be developed. You would like to keep costs down and reuse solutions that have already been developed. The EIA should facilitate interoperability and reuse when developing public services.

European Legislation Identifier

2016.08 European Legislation Identifier (ELI)

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a citizen, a business, a public authority, a legal professional or an academic that wants to access or share European or national legislation online. The European Legislation Identifier (ELI) provides a solution to uniquely identify European legislation online. ELI allows you to easily access, share and exchange EU and Member State legislation.

GOVSEC

2018.09 GovSEC Cloud – Security Governance for Cloud

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a public administrator using services in the Cloud and you want to make sure your data and applications are safe.

2016.18 Development of an open data service, support and training package in the area of linked open data, data visualisation and persistent identification

When is this action of interest to you?

You want to check and reuse EU open data and visualisation tools.

COMPARED

2018.07 COMPARED - Text mining solution to support the evaluation process of research grant applications

When is this action of interest to you?
This action interests you if you belong to one of the following groups:
  • Public funding agencies for research and innovation in EU Member States, Horizon 2020 Associated States, or at international level
  • Private funding agencies for research and innovation 
  • Applicants to such research and innovation grants
Access to Base Registries

2016.28 Access to Base Registries              

When is this action of interest to you?
  • You are a base registry representative and you receive requests to open up your registry to cross-sector or cross-border public services and/or other registries. To respond to these requests, you want to gain insights into how to develop/improve national and cross-border interoperability features of your base registry.
  • You are working for a public service and are in charge of liaising with national and cross-border base registries to develop new add-on services. You advise your public service organisation and the identified cross-border registries on how to become interoperable and/or how to gain interoperability maturity.

2016.37 Interoperability Maturity Assessment of a Public Service (IMAPS) 

When is this action of interest to you?

You are:

  • An IT system architect or developer and want to design, develop and assess an interoperable IT architecture supporting a digital public service;
  • An IT solutions portfolio manager and want to get insights for the governance of a portfolio of interoperable solutions for digital public services;
  • A public procurement officer and want to identify standards and specifications for an interoperable digital public service
  • A public service owner and want to diagnose the behavioural interoperability maturity level of a digital public service
  • A policy-maker and want to identify the public services implementation orientation for the digitalisation of interoperable public services.

IMAPS and its legal, organisational, technical and semantic specialisations can help you in this task.

2016.22 Community building and effective use of the collaborative platforms

FUNDING ENDED, ACTIVITIES CONTINUE UNDER ACTIONS 2016.20, 2016.30 AND 2016.31...

When is this action of interest to you?

You are working in a public administration. You are looking for best practices within the public administration domain to implement in your work environment. You want to share your own experiences and solutions. The community building within the ISA² programme is the ideal way to showcase, support and promote best practices across borders.

2016.01 THEMIS - Application of EU law: provision of cross-sector communication and problem solving tools

When is this action of interest to you?

You, the Commission or a central government, are interested in reducing extra manual data encoding. This action, supporting the application of EU law, allows you to transmit data directly from your back-office systems to the EC according to the principles of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF).

Improving statistical data and metadata discoverability and analysis

2018.03 Improving statistical data and metadata discoverability and analysis

When is this action of interest to you?

You are an administration or a business publishing statistical data and you would like to improve its discoverability and its semantic interoperability.

2016.16 Public multilingual knowledge management infrastructure for the Digital Single Market

When is this action of interest to you?

You run a company, in particular in the language technology industry, and develop cross-border e-commerce solutions.

You are a public administrator in charge of e-service internationalisation.

REFIT Platform

2017.03 REFIT Platform (IT tool)

FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

The Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT) Platform brings together the Commission, national authorities and other stakeholders in order to improve existing EU legislation as part of the Commission's Better regulation policy. The ISA² action will develop the REFIT collaborative workspace to facilitate online cooperation between the members of the REFIT platform. The new workspace will allow all involved actors to treat citizens' suggestions for reducing administrative burden swiftly and efficiently.

2016.33 EIF implementation and governance models (former EIS Governance)                              

When is this action of interest to you?

https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/eif_enYou are in charge of coordinating any interoperability-related activities in support of the development of cross-border European public services. You want to take into account organisational aspects of interoperability.

2016.13 CISE - Development of the information sharing environment for the surveillance of the EU maritime domain

When is this action of interest to you?
  • You are a European public administration that wants effective implementation and enforcement of the EU legislation in the fields of maritime safety and security, border control and fisheries control, customs and environment. You would like to have access to cross-sector and cross-border data related to maritime operations and avoid duplication of data collection.
  • You are working in industry and you would participate in developing appropriate interoperability standards, enhance competitiveness and demand for surveillance capabilities.

2019.01 Interoperability Academy

When is this action of interest to you?

You are someone who:

  • works in or for a public administration and wants to understand the interoperability issues and the way to deal with them;
  • is responsible for digital skills in the public sector and wants to share or reuse learning resources, or/and;
  • wants to use one or more of the interoperability solutions and you would like to receive a thorough training on how to use them.

     

2016.03 Big Data for Public Administrations

FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a public administration that wants to better exploit the potential of big data. You want to take advantage of open data and to be able to link information coming from different sources. This action will help you make use of big data techniques to reuse your data and transform them into knowledge.

access to EC documents

2018.05 Electronic access to the European Commission documents – Study

When is this action of interest to you?

1. You are a citizen or a stakeholder interested in obtaining access to a document, held by the European Commission;
2. You are a public administration considering ways to improve your system for the management of requests for public access to documents.

Catalogue of services

2016.29 Catalogue of services

When is this action of interest to you?

You are responsible for implementing a catalogue of public services in your country. In some cases you may need to compile information about public services from various authorities. This action will provide some harmonisation of national and European service catalogues that will help European public administrations to understand what is available in other countries and also to access some common tools and data models to describe public services in an interoperable manner. This will help national administrations to link up public services domestically and in future to create a European combined catalogue of public services, a key precondition for building up cross-border services.

2016.30 Raising interoperability awareness - Communication activities

When is this action of interest to you?

You would like to learn more about how ISA² communicates with its stakeholders.

2016.25 Interoperability Test Bed (ITB)                                

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a European public administration or a potential vendor wishing to integrate your IT solution into an existing trans-European IT system.

2016.23 Legal Interoperability

When is this action of interest to you?
  • You are a policy officer in a public administration preparing or evaluating legislation and want to know more about how to make legislation digital-ready.
  • You work on the implementation of digital public services as an IT specialist, business architect, data specialist and you would like to provide input for future-proof policymaking. 
  • You are in charge of the conceptualization, design, delivery, running or evaluation of a public service and you would like to get rid of the legal interoperability barriers that you encounter in your work.
  • You are an expert in digital-ready policymaking and want to contribute to a growing community around the topic.
     
FAIR Data Maturity Model

2018.06 FAIR Data Maturity Model

When is this action of interest to you?

This action aims to develop a self-assessment methodology that any public sector or research organisation can use in order to measure the maturity level of its datasets, projects or data infrastructures from the following perspectives:
a) data findability, i.e. how well an organisation describes the data it generates or manages with rich metadata and globally unique persistent identifiers;
b) data accessibility, i.e. how well an organisation allows its data/metadata to be retrieved;
c) data interoperability, i.e. how well an organisation ensures that the precise format and meaning of exchanged and shared data/metadata is preserved and understood;
d) data reusability, i.e. how well an organisation releases metadata with a clear and accessible data usage licence.

2016.07 SEMIC: Promoting Semantic Interoperability amongst the EU Member States                                

When is this action of interest to you?

- You are involved in the metadata management of a European public administration or service.
- You want to explore, (re-) use or share semantic assets (metadata or reference data).
- You want to learn more about semantic interoperability requirements, approaches or tools.
- You are looking for references for best practices and case studies.

ELI@EULAW

2017.02 ELI @EULAW

FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

This action will ensure that the legislation data retrieval process, which is compliant with the European Legislative Identifier (ELI), is integrated with the information systems for monitoring the application of EU law.

2016.34 CIRCABC - Communication and information resource centre for administrations, businesses and citizens                                

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a member of a widespread collaborative group. You would like to share information and resources in private workspaces over the web. The open-source, web-based CIRCABC meets your needs.

OCS for ECIs

2016.14 European Citizens' Initiatives

When is this action of interest to you?

You are the organiser of a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) and wish to gather statements of support online. In order to do this you have to setup an online collection system that must satisfy certain technical and security requirements and be certified by the competent authorities of a Member State. The open source software ‘Online Collection Software for European Citizens’ Initiatives’ meets your needs.

2016.06 Sharing statistical production and dissemination services and solutions in the European Statistical System

​FUNDING CONCLUDED       

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a public administrator in charge of producing and disseminating statistics.

SDG Interoperability

2017.05 Interoperability requirements for the Single Digital Gateway implementation​

​FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

You are involved in online public services within your administration, and in particular those services that will become part of the Single Digital Gateway (SDG).

2016.02 Data communication network service (TESTA, sTESTA, TESTA-ng)                                

When is this action of interest to you?

You would like to implement an information system to exchange data between European and national administrations. The security and availability of the data are especially important to you. 

2016.39 Monitoring and Evaluation

When is this action of interest to you?

You want to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the ISA programme and the follow-up ISA² programme. You want to ensure that the objectives of the ISA legal Decision are met, and that progress and management of the ISA² programme are on track.

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2016.27 CAMSS - Common Assessment Method Standards and Specifications

When is this action of interest to you?

You want to use ICT standards or specifications in procuring and implementing your regional, national or cross border ICT services. You would like to make sure that you choose the best available ICT standards or specifications to fulfill your business needs. CAMSS will provide you with a comprehensive method to help you in the assessment of ICT standards and specifications.

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2016.38 Legislation Interoperability Tools - LegIT

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a member of an organization dealing with the editing or publication of legal texts. You are looking for an easy to use editing tool which provides guidance and quality control for writers. You are struggling with the formalization of legal texts. You are looking for a structured format, which would enable automatic processing like detection of legal references from any legal text and interoperability between IT systems.

Interoperable Meta Data and Processing Components

2018.02 Interoperable Meta Data and Processing Components for Open Source Information Mining

When is this action of interest to you?

You are a public administrator and your authority wants to derive information from open source data for informative or investigative purposes.

2016.11 Automatic Business Reporting          

FUNDING CONCLUDED

When is this action of interest to you?

You run a small or medium-sized enterprise and you have to invest a considerable amount of time and resources on reporting to public authorities.

To reinforce your competitiveness, you would like to establish an easy digital way to communicate your data to public authorities.

REGDEL

2017.04 Inter-institutional Register of Delegated Acts (RegDel)

When is this action of interest to you?

National administrations, stakeholders and the public at large will benefit from the Register, as it will have a public interface documenting the lifecycle of delegated acts.