Join us on 21 November in Brussels to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the European Commission’s Open Source Observatory (OSOR). The conference “OSOR Turns 15: From Pioneering to Mainstreaming Open Technologies in Public Services” will gather movers and shakers of open source in public services including public officials from around the EU, businesses, organisations, researchers, developers, and groups that collectively make up the diverse OSOR community.

The Living-in.EU Stakeholder Forum took place on 4 December 2023 at 13-15 CET. The meeting focused on Co-creation of the technical specifications: Digital Tools, Projects, and Future Steps. The meeting invited organizations who have signed or supported the Living-in.EU Declaration. 

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The ESPON Seminar in Cuenca is organized in cooperation with the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council in the framework of the ESPON 2030 Cooperation Programme, which aims to support policy development for promoting territorial cohesion and harmonious development of the European territory.

Living-in.EU and LORDIMAS will  be presented in the session "Tools for SMS Towns and Cities" on 16 November 2023 at 11:15-12:00

This year's final Living-in.EU Supporters meeting invites all supporting organisations to join us where we share the tangible assets available to help the transformation of smart communities. At the core of these assets lies the ambition to establish a harmonised European digital landscape.

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This year's final Technical Working Group meeting invites the Living-in.EU Signatories to review the available resources that have been published to help the digital transformation of cities and communities.

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This Info Day aims to support and guide call applicants for their upcoming projects submissions, as well as invite stakeholders to connect with potential partners through matchmaking.

The session is open to:

To learn more about this deployment phase, we would like to invite you to an online info session in collaboration with Gaia X and Living-in.EU movement on the 15th of November 1pm-3pm (CEST). First, the results of the preparatory actions will be presented, then the team behind the Data-spaces-in.EU will get introduced and share their upcoming activities. Time will be allocated to Q&A.

Generative AI and cutting-edge technological solutions hold great potential for public-sector administrations as well as private organisation across Europe to improve societal challenges, producing innovation as well as provide better services to the citizens.

With the occasion of the Flanders Digital Meeting Day 2023, Living-in.EU will host a session to present Living-in.EU to the Flanders Community and how it can support cities and communities in their region. 

Panelists: Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez - European Commission, Karl-Filip Coenegrachts - Open & Agile Smart Cities, Rodolphe Doité - Errin

This session is in English.

The Monitoring and Measuring subgroup of Living-in.EU is organising it third meeting in 2023 on 27 October 2023, from 10:30 to 12:00 (CET). This event will be held online only.

This meeting will be an opportunity to give Living-in.EU signatories and our subgroup members a complete overview of the activities implemented for the creation of the LORDIMAS tool.