• Are you a researcher in a discipline of Social Sciences or Humanities?

    Are you looking for governmental data for your research?

    Are you a researcher in a discipline of Social Sciences or Humanities?

  • Are you working in the Public Sector in a European country?

    Do you have a mandate to share your data with the research community?

    Are you working in the Public Sector in a European country?

  • Are you a citizen looking for ways to promote transparency and accountability in your country’s public organizations?

    Would you like to able to benchmark your country against other European countries?

    Are you a responsible citizen?

  • Look no further, ENGAGE* is the place to search for open data, a single point of access to Public Sector Information across Europe.

    Our vision? To reach over national borders and provide a coherent environment for open governmental data, connecting researchers and data providers no matter the country or language.  Read More

    ENGAGE is here

Project Flash

ENGAGE Insights: a new thinkspace is born

ENGAGE happily announces that a new website section is launched called “ENGAGE Insights”. It is devoted to promoting the dialogue about the improvement of the provision, usage and final utilization of open data by scientists of all scientific domains, citizens and businesses.

We have already 2 thought-stimulating contributions from Spyros Blavoukos and Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and we would gladly welcome yours.

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ENGAGE launches a new survey addressed to Public Sector Information USERS

Express your needs and help the ENGAGE project to address them!

Take the survey, and receive the survey results and conclusions for free (please specify your email address at the end of the survey).

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Project Overview

Rationale

Information and Communication Technologies have an unprecedented potential to improve the responsiveness of governments to the needs of citizens and have long been recognized as a key strategic tool to enable reforms in the public sector. During the last years, this potential of ICT has started to be dealt with in a multi-disciplinary way, giving birth to new research communities dealing with governance and policy modelling, modelling and simulation of complex systems, public administration information systems, open governance and social media. However, this potential is to this day non-systematically exploited, as there are significant barriers that hinder the effective exploration, management and distribution of the vast amounts of available public sector data towards the research communities.

ENGAGE Goals

The main goal of ENGAGE project is the deployment and use of an advanced service infrastructure, incorporating distributed and diverse public sector information resources as well as data curation, semantic annotation and visualisation tools, capable of supporting scientific collaboration and governance?related research from multi-disciplinary scientific communities, while also empowering the deployment of open governmental data towards citizens.