Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – Final evaluation of the implementation of the multiannual Community Programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable

This Report concerns the final evaluation of the eContentplus Programme (2005-2008). The Programme ran for a period of 4 years from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2008 with a budget of €149 million, of which 100% has been fully committed to projects, studies and administration (cost related to the organisation of evaluations of proposals and project reviews).

The objective of the Programme was to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable, facilitating the creation and diffusion of information, in areas of public interest, at Community level.

The Programme was part of the Commission’s policy announced in ‘i2010 — A European Information Society for growth and employment’. In aiming to facilitate content access, use and exploitation and to stimulate content enrichment, the eContentplus Programme addressed two of the four main challenges posed by digital convergence for the creation of a single European Information Space, as identified by i2010, namely ‘interoperability’ and ‘rich content’.

More specifically, it set out to help achieve Objective 1 of i2010: A Single European Information Space offering affordable and secure high bandwidth communications, rich and diverse content and digital services.

EUR-Lex: COM(2011)548: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2011:548:FIN

European Commission: DG Information Society: The eContentplus programme http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/closedcalls/econtentplus/index_en.htm

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