The European Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides technical expertise and capacity-building support to policymakers across the European Union.
Digital innovationLegal+11 topics
Last update: 13/02/2024
Ontology Engineering Group
Ontology Engineering Group is sharing its knoweldge on the areas of Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web, Social and Linked Data, Natural Language, Semantic e-Science and the Future Internet.
Science and technology
Last update: 13/02/2024
Common Mapping of Innovation Supporting Actors
This collection provides information on CMISA, a common data model for exchanging data on innovation between various European and national websites.
CollaborationeGovernment+2 topics
Last update: 13/02/2024
Digital Response to COVID-19
The Digital Response to COVID-19 shares open source software, websites, and platforms that are useful for public administrations, businesses, and citizens dealing with the COVID-19 crisis:
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+2 topics
Last update: 20/04/2021
Science and technology
Sharing experiences and solutions in the domain of science and technology with a focus on interoperability and reusability of data
Science and technology
Last update: 28/02/2024
BDTI Data Analytics in Action
We’re almost halfway through the BDTI Essentials online course, aiming to give data enthusiasts in the public sector and beyond an introduction to data analytics and the BDTI platform. Delivered through an interesting use case -- analysing multiple open datasets to build a dashboard that explores funding and initiatives for green projects in highly polluted European cities -- the course unfolds over six weeks of sessions. Session 2 was held on Friday, the 16th of February, and it provided a comprehensive overview of data cleaning and transformation fundamentals, the second point along our data…
Smart citiesScience and technology+3 topics
Last update: 26/02/2024
Open climate for the world!
After three years preparation and discussion, the European ICON weather services model system becomes Open Source, institutions communicated in February 2024.ICON (for ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic modeling framework) is developed by five European partners:the Swiss Center for Climate Systems Modeling (Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSchweiz and ETH Zurich as C2SM partners), the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), the German Weather Service (DWD), the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M). The ICON model enables efficient…
Science and technologyOpen Source SoftwareReusable Software Components
Last update: 13/02/2024
BDTI Online Course: Session One Recap
Last week, we kicked off "Enabling a Data-informed Public Sector: An Introductory Course to BDTI Essentials" with an engaging first session. With a turnout of over 170 people from EU Member States and around the world and spanning sectors, the session was packed full of learning and interaction.In the session, participants learned how to find, access and start working with multiple open datasets from data.europa.eu, the European Data portal, the first step in the data analysis journey. We introduced our use case, analysing multiple open datasets to build a dashboard that explores funding and…
Science and technologyOpen Source SoftwareAdvanced data analytics
Last update: 06/12/2023
Grants for Academies
Under the Digital Europe Programme, Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ programmes, they are currently several calls for proposal or cascade funding. EuroHPC Virtual Training AcademyCybersecurity Skills AcademySecond Academy Open Call (Master School)Erasmus+ Teacher AcademiesSee more details on https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-search?keywords=academy&tenders=false&programmePart
Culture and educationScience and technologyICT security
Last update: 19/01/2024
The Chamilo LMS reading comprehension tool
Reading fluency is an essential skill for success at school.Students who are fluent in reading are more likely to understand the texts they read, enabling them to learn more effectively. It is important to be attentive and to identify a learner's weaknesses so that they can be given personalised care and the comfort of easier learning.In Belgium, the French language teaching standards for reading fluency are as follows:CP: 70 words per minuteCE1: 110 words per minuteCE2: 170 words per minuteThese standards are based on the results of scientific studies which have shown that pupils who reach…
Culture and educationScience and technologyOpen Source Software
Last update: 13/11/2023
AI and the public sector: presentation at SEMIC 2023
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) showcased its latest advancements at the Semantic Interoperability Community Europe (SEMIC 2023) annual conference in Madrid, focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the public sector. The session, titled "Trustworthy AI for Interoperability in the Public Sector," featured discussions among experts from the public sector, academia, and industry. The talks centered on AI's opportunities and challenges, particularly transparency and trustworthiness in AI-driven digital systems. Check out the recording of the sessions on the SEMIC website!Luca Tangi, a…
ObservatoriesScience and technology+3 topics
Last update: 06/10/2023
An Example of Practical Open Source Education in France
The Academy of Paris is using the open source Basthon software for Capytale - an online platform teaching digital skills to students in secondary school. Not only is the software open source, released under GPLv3, but the content shared on the platform is generally under the Creative Commons share-alike licence. This initiative is part of French Ministry of Education's Digital Strategy for 2023-2027 and its support for the use of “digital commons,” which we reported on a few months ago. This strategy, which aims to equip students with digital skills, is the result of a 2020 consultation and…