data.europa.eu

What data.europa.eu does

data.europa.eu is the official open data portal of the European Union, operated by the Publications Office of the EU and headquartered in Luxembourg. It serves as a single, multilingual access point for public sector data across Europe, aggregating 1,745,517 datasets from 210 catalogues across 36 countries and localising the entire platform across all 24 EU official languages. Its user base spans EU public administrations, researchers and academics, data journalists, businesses, and EU citizens, with no commercial transaction layer.

The platform is built on open W3C semantic web standards, using RDF for data representation and SPARQL for querying, and is exposed through a direct web portal, an API search hub, a SPARQL endpoint, and bulk download tooling. Core products include Quick Search, Geospatial Search, SPARQL Search, API Search, a Metadata Quality Assessment tool, a High-Value Datasets Dashboard, the European Register for Protected Data, the European Legal Data Space, the Public Procurement Data Space, a Licensing Assistant, the EU Sanctions Tracker, the data.europa academy, and the Data Visualisation Guide. Cohesion policy data is delivered through the Kohesio platform, which integrates AI-driven multilingual translation and smart search across projects and beneficiaries.

The business model is a freemium public service: there are no fees for any portal service, including datasets, APIs, SPARQL queries, learning resources, or community features. The portal is funded by the European Union budget through the Publications Office as part of the European Commission's digital strategy, and it generates no commercial revenue, holds no external shareholders, and is not subject to venture, PE, or M&A ownership dynamics. Revenue risk in the conventional sense is therefore not applicable; the platform's mandate is regulatory rather than commercial.

Name

data.europa.eu

Legal name

Publications Office of the European Union

Website

https://data.europa.eu

Company type

Public

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

data.europa.eu is the official EU open data portal operated by the Publications Office of the European Union. It aggregates 1.7 million+ datasets from 210 catalogues across 36 countries, providing free multilingual access to EU public sector data for administrations, researchers, businesses, and citizens.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open Data Portal

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

General Web Portals & Start Pages (BPAMAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Transparency Portals & Open Data Reporting (EDADAIAN), API Management & Gateways (BPAMAOAA), Data Engineering, Integration & ETL/ELT Services (BPAEAHAB)

Keywords

• Open data portal
• Public sector data
• Linked open data
• Government data platform
• EU data ecosystem

Headquarters

HQ city

Luxembourg

HQ country

Luxembourg

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Funding: The portal is funded by the European Union as part of the Publications Office and European Commission's digital infrastructure. All services are provided free of charge to users. No commercial revenue generation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

data.europa.eu operates the official European Data Portal, providing a single web-based access point to discover, query, and download over 1.7 million public sector datasets aggregated from 210 catalogues across 36 European countries. The portal exposes SPARQL and RESTful API endpoints for programmatic access, offers metadata quality assessment tooling, and delivers supporting services such as the data.europa academy learning platform and the EU Sanctions Tracker application, all funded by the EU and provided free of charge.

Product overview

data.europa.eu is the official European Union open data portal operated by the Publications Office of the EU. It functions as a unified platform providing single-point access to over 1.7 million datasets from 210 catalogues across 36 countries. The platform comprises a core data discovery portal (featuring Quick Search, Geospatial Search, SPARQL Search, and API Search), metadata quality assessment tools, specialized data spaces (European Legal Data Space, Public Procurement Data Space), the High-Value Datasets Dashboard, and the EU Sanctions Tracker app. Supporting services include the data.europa academy for learning, the Data Visualisation Guide for education, the Licensing Assistant for license selection, and the EU Open Data Days event series. The Kohesio platform, providing cohesion policy project data, is a related but separate initiative. The portal aggregates metadata and provides access tools but does not host the actual data files directly.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EU Sanctions Tracker: An application on the European Data Portal for exploring EU sanctions data including financial sanctions and travel bans.
• Data Visualisation Guide

Products and services

• European Data Portal (data.europa.eu) The official EU open data portal providing a single access point to discover, access, and reuse over 1.7 million public sector datasets from 210 catalogues across 36 European countries, available in 24 EU official languages.
• EU Sanctions Tracker Interactive application on the European Data Portal tracking EU sanctions against Russia and other regimes, providing up-to-date data and visualizations on financial sanctions and travel bans.
• data.europa academy Learning platform providing free data literacy courses for all experience levels, including learning paths and search functionality for data courses.
• Data Visualisation Guide Comprehensive online guide covering 7 key topics on data visualisation, ordered by complexity, from design principles and colour theory to advanced techniques like the Grammar of Graphics.
• EU Open Data Days Annual event series featuring competitions like the EU Datathon, showcasing innovative applications built using EU open data.
• Dataset Versioning Feature Capability on the European Data Portal that creates automatic dataset versions whenever a dataset is harvested or its metadata is updated, enabling users to access datasets exactly as they were at specific moments in time.

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and supporting.

• INSPIRE GeoportalmajorTechnology or Integration · 22 June 2026Geospatial datasets previously hosted on INSPIRE Geoportal are now accessible through the European Data Portal from July 2026, consolidating EU geospatial data discovery.
• Kohesio PlatformmajorTechnology or Integration · 21 October 2022Kohesio provides the EU cohesion policy project database with 1.7M+ projects and 500K beneficiaries. Data is harmonised and made available through the European Data Portal ecosystem.
• European CommissioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe European Data Portal operates under the authority of the European Commission, which sets EU open data policy and directives. The Commission provides strategic direction, funding, and regulatory framework for portal operations.
• Publications Office of the European UnioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe portal is managed and operated by the Publications Office of the EU, which provides publishing infrastructure, technical operations, and integration with other EU digital services.
• European Commission DG REGIOmajorTechnology or IntegrationDirectorate-General for Regional Policy provides cohesion policy data including EUR 110B+ in EU financing information for the 2021-2027 period.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)supportingTechnology or IntegrationW3C sets open standards for semantic web technologies including RDF and SPARQL that underpin the portal's linked open data infrastructure.
• Wikimedia DeutschlandsupportingTechnology or IntegrationOpen-source tools provided by Wikimedia Deutschland are used in the Kohesio platform to support linked open data development.
• WikidatasupportingTechnology or IntegrationExternal linked data resource integrated into Kohesio for supplementing project information with publicly available linked datasets.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Data.gov.uk: The UK government's open data portal, operating as a national aggregator of public-sector datasets with metadata quality tooling. Highly comparable to data.europa.eu in scope and direct-to-consumer public service model.
• data.gouv.fr: France's national open data portal operated under Etalab, aggregating French public-sector datasets with APIs and reusable tooling. Functionally analogous as an EU Member State-level peer within the same regulatory family.
• GovData (Germany): Germany's federal/state open data portal, providing cross-region dataset aggregation within Germany. Comparable in approach to multi-jurisdiction harmonisation, though at national rather than EU scale.
• INSPIRE Geoportal: The EU's geospatial data discovery portal, whose datasets have now been consolidated into data.europa.eu from July 2026. Closely comparable in metadata standards (INSPIRE Directive) and user community, with operational overlap.
• Data.gov (US): The official US federal open data portal, the closest functional equivalent of data.europa.eu at a national/jurisdictional level. Both aggregate open public-sector datasets, offer metadata harvesting, and serve as mandated access points under respective open-data policies.

Emerging players

• CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network): The dominant open-source data management platform used by many national open-data portals. Comparable as enabling infrastructure for catalogue publishing, metadata harvesting, and API access — the same functions data.europa.eu exposes at scale.
• OpenAIRE: European open science infrastructure aggregating research outputs and EU-funded project data. Comparable as a thematic EU open-data aggregator overlapping with data.europa.eu in research and funding transparency domains.

Others

• Open Data Institute (ODI): UK-based non-profit focused on open-data ecosystem building, policy, and data literacy. Comparable as a peer in open-data advocacy, training (akin to data.europa academy), and ecosystem convening rather than direct platform competition.

Regional players

• European Data Space for Public Procurement (PPDS): An EU vertical data space for procurement data hosted under the data.europa.eu ecosystem. Comparable as a domain-specific EU open-data initiative within the same regulatory and technical umbrella.

Broad incumbents

• Open Data Portal of the European Commission (EU Open Data Portal predecessor): The Publications Office's broader EU publications and data access portal that historically preceded and now complements data.europa.eu. Comparable as the same operator's wider institutional data footprint covering documents, legislation, and datasets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EU_opendata
• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/PublicationsOffice
• Facebookfacebook.com/data.europa.eu
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/publications-office-of-the-european-union

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