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‘Excellent’ rating for Apps for Europe

The Apps for Europe (Apps4EU) project received an ‘excellent’ rating in its final review. An excellent rating is defined as: "the project has fully achieved its objectives and goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations".

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Apps for Europe is a support network that provides tools to transform ideas for data based apps into viable businesses. It brings a powerful European network of individuals and organisations who have been involved in open data programmes and in supporting promising ideas to help ideas to scale. Competitions for using open data were organised, and the winners were stimulated to start business ventures and maximise the socio-economic impact and overall benefits of open data.

Sound & Vision was involved in setting up guidelines for reuse of open data, specifically open cultural data. In an earlier blog Maarten Brinkerink shared our experiences with the project, which are now part of an Apps4EU publication. In the future, we hope to do more work with this network to create an EU ecosystem to encourage the reuse of open data from different domains.

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