European eInvoicing Project: implementation of the European electronic invoice within the Public Health area GOVeIN is a research project funded by Connecting Europe Facility programme, with an aim to ease the adoption of the e-invoicing by public and private entities in the health sector. The project with duration of 13 months (1 Oct. 2016 – 31 Oct. 2017) and a total budget of 1.1 Mill/€ brings together the main actors related to the cross-border exchange of electronic invoice in the Public Health area, including hospital trusts and laboratories.The EU Directive 2014/55 of the European Parliament and Council, on electronic invoicing in public procurement, aims to develop a European system ensuring interoperability among Member States, to facilitate public procurement and cross-border e-commerce. Based on this EU Directive, this project consists of establishing a consortium in the European public health area in order to implement a pilot project for the exchange of e-invoices with public administrations in accordance with the specifications on semantic interoperability set out.Advantages of eInvoicing:• eInvoices are easier to process, they reach the customer faster and can be stored centrally at very low cost. • Faster payment by customers (such as public administrations) through significantly reducing transit time. • Quicker and cheaper processing as information in eInvoices can be fed directly into payment and accounting systems. • Help develop the European market by supporting solution providers in their transactions with public authorities.Principal objectives of the project can be summarised in the following items: • Enhance eInvoincing interoperability by the implementation of a multi-syntax solution able to handle e-invoicing in multiple standards.• Increase user awareness and adoption of the eInvoicing Directive• eInvoicing Services Business Development.The consortium with 19 partner organizations is led by Edicom (Spain)