A central visibility point for indicating that a piece of software comes from the European Union.
The idea is simple: drop a small, recognizable badge into your README, your docs,
your website or your release page so that anyone — users, contributors, customers,
public institutions — can tell at a glance that the project is built in the EU.
One consistent mark, instead of everyone inventing their own.
European software is everywhere, but it rarely says so. Digital sovereignty, procurement preferences ("buy European"), GDPR-by-default, and the simple wish to support local ecosystems are all easier when provenance is visible. A shared badge makes that provenance a one-line copy-paste.
Two interchangeable forms live under software-badge/.
A fixed, cacheable, fully vector file — no external service, no tracking, scales to any size. Either reference it from this repo or copy it into your own.
<img src="software-badge/made-in-eu.svg" alt="Made in EU" height="20">If you prefer the shields.io pipeline, the ready-made URL is in
software-badge/markdown.md. It carries the EU flag
as an embedded logo, so it needs no extra hosting.
The badge shows the EU flag (official blue #003399, gold #FFCC00 stars) on the
left and Made in EU on the standard slate-grey field on the right.
A note on stability: the badge may be refined over time (colours, spacing, new style variants). The
mainURL above always serves the latest version, which is usually what you want. If you'd rather pin the exact artwork you see today, link to a tagged release instead — e.g. replacemainwith the tag:
This repository — a project literally about European software sovereignty — is hosted on GitHub, owned by Microsoft, a US company. That little irony is, on its own, a fair illustration of the scale of the problem: even when we set out to wave the European flag, the ground we stand on is more often than not American.
It is kept here for now precisely because that is where the world's developers already are, and visibility is the whole purpose. But the hope is that one day this note will be obsolete — that the badge will live on European infrastructure, and that "Made in EU" will be the unremarkable default rather than a statement. 🇪🇺
Until then: consider this both a badge and a small reminder.
Variants are welcome — different sizes, styles (flat, flat-square,
for-the-badge), languages, or a dark-mode version. Open an issue or a pull
request. Please keep the EU flag in its official colours and proportions.
MIT — use it anywhere, in any project, commercial or not, no attribution required. The lower the friction, the more places the flag can fly.