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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 […]

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Focus on data spaces and data ecosystems: Gaia-X Hub Germany launches online learning offer

Press release Munich, March 31, 2025 – The Gaia-X Hub Germany has launched a free online campus on the data economy. Starting on 31 March 2025, interested parties can learn […]

Register now for the Gaia-X Market-X & Expo & Tech-X & Hackathon #8 – 13-14 May in Valencia, Spain
Market-X & Expo + Tech-X & Hackathon #8 is designed to bridge the gap between the business and tech worlds, creating a dynamic environment where innovation thrives. Over two action-packed days, attendees will immerse themselves in cutting-edge market trends and technological advancements.
Dutch minister of Economic Affairs and Climate visits CoE-DSC booth at Hannover Messe 2025
At the Hannover Messe, on March 31 2025, Peter Verkoulen (directeur CoE-DSC) and Sjoerd Rongen (coordinator - CoE-DPP) pitched the CoE-DSC (and CoE-DPP as part of that) to the Dutch minister of Economic Affairs and Climate, Dirk Beljaarts.
Unpacking Simpl: Slides Simpl-Open Roadmap Webinar – March 25, 2025
The Simpl-Open Roadmap Webinar on March 25,2025, was the first in the  Simpl Webinars series titled “Unpacking Simpl.” This webinar offered an in-depth presentation of the development roadmap.
Slides and recordings of Community Meeting March 25 – DSIC: the Future & Pillars of Interoperability
During our Community Meeting on the 25th of March 2025 we learned more about and provided input on DSIC’s future plans. We gained better insights into 3 major pillars propelling interoperability on the national level: standardization, funding and regulatory views.
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National initiative for Digital Product Passports in the Netherlands
The Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, together with a number of other Dutch ministries, has taken the initiative to stimulate the developments of Digital Product Passports (DPPs) in the Netherlands. The ministry has made the financial resources available for this and the activities for the DPP are being accommodated at the Centre of Excellence for Data Sharing & Cloud (CoE-DSC).
Slides IDSA Ecosystem Building Call on Federated Learning Governance using Eclips Dataspace Components Connectors
On March 10, 2025, the IDSA organized a Ecosystem Building Call with Angela Mitrovska (Research Associate of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI)) as a speaker on Federated Learning Governance using Eclips Dataspace Components Connectors. These IDSA Building Calls are open for IDSA-members only. Angela Mitrovska was happy to share the slides of her presentation with CoE-DSC.
CoE-DSC participant of the Hannover Messe 2025
Discover innovations and the status of the latest technologies at the Hannover Messe. This event is from March 31 – April 4, 2025 and is one of the most important international platforms and hot spots for industrial transformations and innovations. This years’ theme is ‘Energizing a sustainable industry’. The CoE-DSC is a participant of the Hannover Messe. You can find us in Hall 8.
Dutch House of Representatives is pushing for more digital autonomy

On March 4, 2025, the Dutch House of Representatives (De Tweede Kamer) adopted a number of motions in the field of the use of algorithms and data ethics, and emerging […]

Dutch Committee Digital Affairs on overreliance on Non-European Digital Infrastructures
On Thursday February 13, 2025, the committee Digital Affairs (commissie Digitale Zaken - DiZa) of the Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) organized a roundtable meeting on the topic of digital sovereignty in government and (over)reliance on Non-European Digital Infrastructures.