A digital workplace for government and the public sector. Available on request, in a pilot of 30 days.

For municipalities, healthcare organisations, schools, implementing agencies and suppliers to government. No servers of your own needed: the workplace runs as a service on our platform, primarily EU-hosted. We maintain the platform, its updates and its backups; you manage your own organisation and users yourself. You work with open standards such as IMAP and CalDAV, without a long-term contract.

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Background

The Dutch central government is building
its own working environment.

In July 2026 the Interdepartmental Committee for Central Government Operations (ICBR) commissioned SSC-ICT, DICTU and DUO-ICT to jointly develop a standardised and more sovereign digital working environment for the central government. In doing so, they build on existing initiatives, such as MijnBureau and the Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid (DAWO).

Source: SSC-ICT, SSC-ICT, DICTU en DUO-ICT samen aan de slag voor een Soevereine Digitale Werkomgeving (in Dutch), 6 August 2026.

Read what a sovereign cloud is, and what it is not, in our explanation. For the technical side, the checklist for security hardening per layer helps.

Who it is for

Municipalities
Mail, files and documents in a workplace you can explain to the council.
Healthcare organisations
District teams and healthcare institutions that want to know exactly where their data is stored.
Education
Schools and school boards looking for a workplace without managing their own servers.
Implementing agencies
Organisations with a public task that must be able to explain, per supplier, who processes their data.
Suppliers to government
Companies that work for government and get the same questions about their workplace.

What you get

A workplace you
can explain.

Available on request, in a pilot of 30 days

You request access and start with a pilot. Mail, notes, files and documents are live.

View the status per component

As a service, without servers of your own

The workplace runs on our platform, primarily EU-hosted. We maintain the platform, its updates and its backups; you manage your own organisation and users yourself. You do not need a server room for it.

Hosted in Germany

Your data and backups are stored in a Hetzner data centre in Falkenstein, Germany. Cloudflare (US) sits at the edge of the network, for DNS and secure connections. The other parties that process data are listed publicly.

View the sub-processors

Open standards, no long-term contract

Mail works via IMAP and SMTP. You set up a mail program with IMAP and SMTP and an app password from your workspace (beta). Calendar and contacts run via CalDAV and CardDAV. If you switch later, you copy your mail via IMAP and export your calendar as .ics and documents as DOCX or PDF.

Read what you can export

BIO2 remains the framework of your own organisation. You get technical and organisational evidence from us on request.

Per level of government

Decentralised government and ZBOs:
what the workplace does.

Noveu Werkplek brings your mail, calendar and files together under one login, primarily EU-hosted and with open protocols. This is what that looks like for municipalities, provinces, water authorities and ZBOs.

Municipalities

Mail, calendar and files under one login, as a service on our platform. You need no servers of your own: we maintain the platform, the updates and the backups, and you manage your own organisation and users yourself.

Provinces

Mail works via IMAP and SMTP. You set up a mail program with IMAP and SMTP and an app password from your workspace (beta). Calendar and contacts run via CalDAV and CardDAV.

Water authorities

You import a Word file (.docx) into Documents, and you export a document as .docx or as a PDF in your house style. Your changes are saved automatically.

How to work with Word files

ZBOs and implementing agencies

Independent administrative bodies (zelfstandige bestuursorganen) and other organisations with a public task

You must be able to explain, per supplier, who processes your data. Your data and backups are stored in Falkenstein, Germany. Cloudflare (US) sits at the edge of the network, and the other parties are listed publicly.

View the sub-processors

All components and their status are on the Noveu Werkplek page. How to work with Word files is in the help on Documents.

Pilot

Try it first,
with your own team.

Request a pilot

Switching

From pilot to roll-out,
in four steps.

Request a pilot
You fill in the access form. We then contact you to agree who takes part.
Data processing agreement
Before any data moves, we set down the data processing agreement together.
Working with a core group
A team works with Noveu for 30 days. We are building mail transfer via IMAP (in development). You set up a mail program with IMAP and SMTP and an app password from your workspace (beta).
Choose and roll out
If it suits you, you move to a paid subscription and we roll out per department.

Are you carrying out the switch yourself, or is your IT partner doing it? Then read from Microsoft 365 to Noveu in six steps.

BlogBIO checklist: ten measures that municipalities often leave undonePer measure what you do this month, for information security officers and ENSIA coordinators.
BlogWhat the CLOUD Act means for a municipality on Microsoft 365With sources, so that you can explain it to the board and the auditor.
ReferenceBIO and BIO2 in briefTechnical and organisational measures for your security policy.

Sectors

Other sectors

The same workplace, set up per sector. View the full overview or the approach for another sector.

Public sector and Noveu

See for yourself whether it fits your organisation?

Request a pilot and work with your own team for 30 days. Rather talk first? That is possible too.

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