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JADS report – Sustainable Revenue Models for Data Sharing Initiatives

If you were present at the Data Sharing Festival 2025 (February 4-5 in The Hague) you might have noticed the JADS (Jheronimus Academy of Data Science) researchers walking around and […]

Subsidy call of 4 million euros for public-private partnerships for SMEs
On May 8, 2025, Topsector ICT announced a subsidy call for public-private partnerships within SMEs in the field of digitalization. A total of 4 million euros is available for research organizations and companies for innovative research & development projects.
Slides and recording of CoE-DSC webinar ‘Assessing compatibility among cloud services in a marketplace’
On Thursday May 8, 2025, we organized a webinar: ‘Assessing compatibility among cloud services in a marketplace’ by Giulia Biagioni. She is a Scientist at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). This webinar was powered by Topsector ICT. Here you can watch the recording and see the slides.
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Have Your Say: Future cloud and AI policies in the EU
The European Commission (EC) seeks feedback on the preparatory work for the Cloud and AI Development Act and the single EU-wide cloud policy for public administrations and public procurement. Submissions are open until June 4, 2025.
Interview Niels Bolding (Health-RI) about data sharing in the healthcare and research sector
Available health and disease data are not optimally (re)used for the benefit of citizens and professionals. By combining data from different sources, we can gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of disease and health. This leads to better treatments, improved healthcare products, and ultimately, better health outcomes for citizens and patients. We spoke with Niels Bolding, Technical Lead at Health-RI, about the challenges and opportunities of data sharing in the healthcare and research sector, and about the efforts of Health-RI to improve data reusability.
Opening of The World Expo 2025 Osaka

On April 13, 2025 the World Expo kicked off in Osaka, Japan. The coming months, the Netherlands is participating with a pavilion based on a circular design concept and on […]

What SMEs should know about EU digital legislations
European Commission rolls out plan to boost circular and efficient products in the EU

On April 16, 2025, the European Commission (EC) adopted the 2025-2030 working plan for the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and Energy Labelling Regulation. The EC plan provides a list of products that […]

Harrie Bastiaansen shares his vision on the future of the digital transformation

On April 15, 2025, Visma SureSync published their (digital) magazine Data Sharing Report at their SureSync Lauch Event 2025. In this digital era, data sharing is a core for innovative- […]

May 8, 2025 – CoE-DSC Webinar: Assessing compatibility among cloud services in a marketplace

On May 8, 2025, CoE-DSC will organize a webinar: ‘Assessing compatibility among cloud services in the marketplace’. To enable federation among cloud services (whether PaaS, SaaS, or IaaS), it is […]

Retirement Jos de Groot – director of Digital Economy at Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate

On April 3, 2025, Jos de Groot retired as Director of Digital Economy at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate. Martijn Lucassen will take over from Jos de Groot. […]

Topsector ICT and RVO: tool for European Subsidy Instruments
Are you looking for European funding opportunities for innovative projects? The European Union offers various subsidy programs to stimulate innovation, research and cooperation. The tools Topsector ICT offers, provide insight into available calls, conditions and deadlines and the various events.
CoE-DSC releases Annual Report 2024

CoE-DSC published its Annual Report 2024 – Driver of digital and sovereign value creation in the Netherlands and Europe. DOWNLOAD THE ANNUAL REPORT 2024 (NL)  

European subsidies: an important driver for digital innovation
How can companies and knowledge institutions receive financial support at European level to innovate or collaborate on calls within Europe?
Slides of presentation on importance of Digital Product Passports at Hannover Messe

On April 1, 2025, Sjoerd Rongen (Coordinator Centre of Excellence for Digital Product Passports – CoE-DPP) gave a presentation at the Hannover Messe on the importance of Digital Product Passports […]

Press release BDI: New dates for training ‘BDI Fundamentals’

After previous, successful course days in 2024 and early this year, BDI has announced new dates in 2025 for the course ‘BDI Fundamentals’: Tuesday 13 May 2025 Thursday 18 September […]