The Publications Office of the EU is the official publisher for all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies, and the central point of access to EU law and official information. Its job is to make that information available as findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data.
Cellar is its common data repository. It stores tens of millions of multilingual publications and their metadata and makes them available to both people and machines as Linked Open Data, with rich links between related publications. For this hackathon, it is your structured, authoritative source of EU legal text and metadata.
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Cellar is the primary data source for any project working with real EU law. Some ideas on where it fits:
Ground your project in real legislation. Pull official, up-to-date EU legal texts and metadata directly rather than scraping or relying on a model's memory.
Useful in combination with: NVIDIA / Nemotron and Perplexity (reasoning and live search over real text).
Keep the structure with a graph. Cellar returns RDF/SPARQL data, which maps directly onto a graph database, so the relationships between legal acts stay intact.
Useful in combination with: Neo4j.
Build a real tool on top. Once you have the data and the reasoning layer, put a usable interface around it for judges, and host the result.
Useful in combination with: Lovable or Momen (frontend), GCP (hosting), Claude Code (integration glue).
The EU Publications Office is delighted to offer an internship opportunity to the winners to explore, analyse, and implement AI processing tools and pipelines to be used as part of the Acquis Management Tool (AMT).
The AMT is a corporate-level digital solution that consolidates legislation, automates the extraction of structured information, and provides advanced analytics to detect gaps, overlaps, or contradictions in EU law, regulations and legal acts. By standardising processes and reducing administrative burdens, the goals is to simplify EU legislation, improve implementation, and ensure high-quality, future-ready policies.
The incumbent will have the opportunity to contribute to the EU Commission’s simplification and better regulation objectives.
The Cellar API is fully open-source, so there are no credits or keys to request. You access it directly through its interfaces and SPARQL endpoint.