OSOR Webinar: Public Administrations and the EU Open Source Strategy

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) is pleased to invite you to this upcoming webinar dedicated to exploring the EU Open Source Strategy’s implications for European public administrations.

Across Europe, public administrations are rethinking how digital services are developed, shared, and maintained, with growing emphasis on transparency, interoperability, reuse, and strategic control over public digital infrastructure. The EU Open Source Strategy fits into this context by positioning open source as a lever for European technological sovereignty, stronger public-sector collaboration, and more sustainable open digital ecosystems.

Join OSOR on 24 September for an engaging session bringing together representatives from EU institutions, Member State administrations and think tanks to:

• Present the Strategy’s main objectives and relevance for the public sector.  
• Explore how public administrations can translate the Strategy into practice, including the challenges they may face and the support they may need. 
• Discuss how open source can be scaled through European cooperation, funding models, public-private collaboration and the wider open source ecosystem.  

Hear directly from the speakers:

• Miguel Díez Blanco - Project Lead EC OSPO and Team Lead Interoperability Enablers and Open Source, DG DIGIT
• Gemma Carolillo - Deputy Head of Unit E.3, DG CNECT
• Ryszard Łuczyn - Deputy Director of the Minister's Office, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland
• Dirk Schrödter - Minister of Digitalisation and Head of State Chancellery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany​
• Laurent Rojey - Director, Digital Commons EDIC
• Sachiko Muto -  Chair, OFE & Senior Researcher, RISE

Event details:

Date: 24 September 2026 
Time: 10:00 AM -12:00 PM (CEST) 
Location: Online (a link will be provided upon registration)

Register here for the webinar.

Please note that you will first need to sign in to the Portal to register. After registration, you will receive the calendar invite and connection details by email.