Co-creation workshops on the monitoring of the Interoperable Europe Act

Formulating effective policies at the EU level requires establishing a governance framework based on open collaboration between the affected parties. In this spirit, a series of co-creation workshops have been held between the European Commission and different Member States to identify users' needs for the Interoperable Europe Act’s monitoring scheme, considering both user ‘supply and demand’ perspectives. Workshop sessions explored aspects such as the potential of leveraging existing national resources, what it means to automate data collection for policy monitoring and initial candidate indicators ideas. They also explored the identification of monitoring’s users, their role in the Act and their likely specific needs and expectations adapting the scope of monitoring beyond policy-making. This report summarises the collective workshop findings as a first step to define the indicators for Article 20 of the Interoperable Europe Act, possible data sources and arrangements for the future monitoring scheme. Importantly, the workshop activities have been based on the public EC proposal for the Act from November 2022. At the same time, workshop outputs provided evidence to the JRC that support the drafting of the final versions of Article 20, with the Act now in force as of April 2024. The workshops also provided lessons about co-creation and the ‘gamification’ approach followed.