Large scale pilots
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epSOS (European Patients Smart Open Services)
is a Europe-wide project organized by 47 beneficiaries out of twenty EU-member states, including ministries of health, national competence centres and industry, making it the first European project clustering such a large number of countries in practical cooperation.
The overarching goal of epSOS is to develop a practical eHealth framework and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure that will enable secure access to patient health information, particularly with respect to a basic patient summary and ePrescription, between European healthcare systems. The project is co-financed by the European Commission within the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (). epSOS time period: 1st July 2008 - 31st December 2013
Nine specific goals for the project have been outlined:
- Agree on a dataset that describes the agreed upon patient summary, as well as the minimum data set required for countries to connect to the services.
- Agree similarly on a basic dataset and other requirements for ePrescription.
- Agree a minimum set of requirements for the access to information taking into account the needs of the various actors, including specifically citizens, healthcare professionals and healthcare provider organisations.
- Design, implement and test a practical technical solution to confidentiality and security requirements in a ‘laboratory’ setting.
- Demonstrate the practical implementation of the solution, again in compliance with confidentiality and security requirements, in a number of settings in a number of participating states.
- Evaluate the results of the practical implementation.
- Demonstrate the ability to access information in compliance with relevant confidentiality and security requirements, including in particular the content of the European Data Protection Directive and any further formally agreed amendments to this that come from the Article 29 Working Party.
- Select and use relevant interoperability standards.
- Propose ways in which the implementation may be replicated in all other member states, in collaboration with those other states.
In fulfilling these 9 goals, epSOS will create building blocks for the future unification of the European Information Space and considerably increase the innovation potential of European enterprises, especially small and medium enterprises SMEs.
Dissemination and communication activities will accompany the project throughout the whole period, supported by the .
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PEPPOL (Pan-European Public eProcurement On-Line)
The objective of the project is to set up a pan-European pilot solution that, conjointly with existing national solutions, facilitates EU-wide interoperable public eProcurement. The vision of the PEPPOL project is that any company and in particular SMEs in the EU can communicate electronically with any European governmental institution for the entire procurement process.
The final outcome of PEPPOL will be an interoperational environment build upon national systems and infrastructures supporting the full cycle of eProcurement activities.
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The pilots that will be developed in PEPPOL will support any economic operator in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) to respond to any published public tender notice electronically and to govern the entire procurement process from their own national infrastructure to any another national infrastructure. Thereby PEPPOL will focus on the engagement and participation of SME companies to public eProcurement.
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SPOCS (Simple Procedures Online for Cross-border Services)
(Simple Procedures Online for Cross-border Services) is a pilot project launched by the European Commission which aims to remove the administrative barriers that European businesses face before offering their services abroad. SPOCS is expected to further enhance the quality of electronic procedures completion and has been designed for businesses that have an interest in cross-border activities. It will allow them to more easily meet all the administrative obligations through the points of single contact that will be available online in all EU Member States that have been made available by the end of 2009.
SPOCS will have the advantage to already benefit from the results achieved by its "sister projects" and , in relation to mutual recognition for the use of electronic identity and signatures.
The project will
- improve the efficiency of cross-border cooperation by making the different approaches that are currently used in the EU countries compatible,
- support service innovations for businesses by reducing time and energy loss, and by enabling them to provide services anywhere in the EU - which is particularly useful for SMEs,
- increase cross border activities, the access to new markets and generate benefits for the overall economic growth and job creation,
- reinforce competitiveness and contribute to the development of trade, which benefits already from electronic services, such as electronic procurement and online company registration,
- accelerate the development of common technology requirements that will foster interoperability, efficiency and the quality of services,
- foster innovative technical solutions, enhanced cooperation and system interoperability that will be useful to modernise the services offered by the public administrations.
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Subscription to the SPOCS-
STORK (Secure identity across borders linked)
(Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linked) is a large scale pilot in the ICT-PSP (Policy Support Programme), under the (Competitiveness and Innovation Programme), and co-funded by EU. It aims at implementing an EU wide interoperable system for recognition of eID and authentication that will enable businesses, citizens and government employees to use their national electronic identities in any Member State. It will also pilot transborder eGovernment identity services and learn from practice on how to roll out such services, and to experience what benefits and challenges an EU wide interoperability system for recognition of eID will bring.
The STORK interoperable solution for electronic identity (eID) is based on a distributed architecture that will pave the way towards full integration of EU e-services while taking into account specifications and infrastructures currently existing in EU Member States. The solution provided is intended to be robust, transparent, safe to use and scalable, and should be implemented in such a way that it is sustainable beyond the life of the pilot.
The project will
- develop common rules and specifications to assist mutual recognition of eIDs across national borders,
- test, in real life environments, secure and easy-to-use eID solutions for citizens and businesses,
- interact with other EU initiatives to maximize the usefulness of eID services.
It will do so by preparing for and implementing several pilots with services that will have significant potential impact and are adequately secure, by making use of open standards where possible and respecting with data protection regulations. The pilots will test the common specification on eID for several applications that have a substantial impact on eGovernment across Europe.
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e-Codex (e-Justice Communication via Online Data Exchange)
The goal of the is to improve the cross-border access of citizens and businesses to legal means in Europe as well as to improve the interoperability between legal authorities within the EU.
Due to high mobility and European integration, procedures containing cross-border effects are increasing. These procedures require cooperation between different national judicial systems. Indeed, the use of ICT will make judicial procedures more transparent, efficient and economic. At the same time, it will help citizens, companies, administrations, and legal practitioners to get facilitated access to justice. This means not only smoother access to information but also the ability to process cross-border cases efficiently.
The overall target is to have pilot projects for Civil Justice (e.g. European Payment Order, Small Claims) and for the Criminal Justice Area (e.g. European Arrest Warrant). e-CODEX strongly commits to adapt and/or adopt the solutions developed by sibling interoperability projects like STORK, PEPPOL and SPOCS.
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