In 2008 and 2009, twelve national and regional SDI Best Practice workshops were organised throughout Europe to facilitate the comparative analysis of the experiences of about 200 SDIs from 32 countries.

National German and Swiss SDI Best Practice workshop in Darmstadt, Germany, February 2009
European region(s) represented at the workshop
- France (Strasbourg, June 2008)
- Hungary (Budapest, August 2008)
- Czech Republic, Slovakia (Brno, September 2008)
- Italy (Rome, September 2008)
- Romania (Bucharest, December 2008)
- Poland (Krakow, January 2009)
- Portugal, Spain (Lisbon, February 2009)
- SE Europe: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey (Thessalonika, February 2009)
- United Kingdom, Ireland (Liverpool, February 2009)
- Germany, Switzerland (Darmstadt, February 2009)
- Belgium (Brussels, April 2009)
- Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden (Stockholm, April 2009)
- France (Lille, June 2009)