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European competition of reusable ICT solutions in public administration

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15 july 2016

New awards from the european commission to those governments that their share and reuse of ict solutions.

The european public administrations have countless ICT solutions and services that could be reused for other public administrations. The reuse of software you have previously been successful will stop the continued reinventing the wheel and help to save on time and costs for users and administrations, just as mejorarará interoperability between systems.

To promote the visibility of these solutions and to encourage reuse, the european commission has decided to highlight the most used and successful within the public sector through new awards from sharing and Reuse (Sharing & Reuse Awards) of the european commission.

Conditions of competition

The winners will receive €10,000 and 15,000 €respectively by those services and solutions that meet the criteria of any of these four categories:

  • Cross-border administrations
  • National administrations
  • Regional administrations
  • Local administrations

Bidders who want to take part in the 'Sharing & Reuse Award 'may be registered in your project this link (Opens in new window) . The competition is open until on 28 october 2016 and the prizes will be announced in march 2017.

we want to reward those "solutions that have been successfully developed and shared by the public administrations, in addition they could be used by other european administrations" said Margarida Abecasis, by the ISA2 programme (Opens in new window) that will host the awards. The programme ISA2 of the european commission promotes the modernization of public administrations to more than 20 solutions (Opens in new window) that promote interoperability, sharing and reuse.

A valuable collection

Now there are many solutions reusable ICT in the available. JOINUP portal (Opens in new window) the european commission maintains an extensive collection of these solutions (Opens in new window) , developed by the member states and the european institutions. "This prize will focus on the best solutions and project s" said ms. abecasis. "we hope that the award allows winning administrations to expand the achievements of its project".

Who can participate?

Only the solutions that have been developed by or for the public authorities may be qualified. If the solution has been developed by a private entity under the name of a public administration, the prize will go into public administration.

One of the requirements for inclusion is that the solution can be reused is discharged in the portal JOINUP. All reusable solutions in the centre of transfer of technology are available in the portal JOINUP and meet this requirement already .

The jury of the competition will include members of the european council, the european commission and the European parliament.

More information about the contest (Opens in new window)

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More information on how to register a solution can be reused in the PTT

  • Interoperability and standardization
  • Centre for technology transfer
  • Infrastructure and common services
  • Centre for technology transfer