Green Deal Data Space Press Release
GREAT project building the foundation and community of practice of the EU Green Deal Data Space. Addressing climate change and its impacts is only possible with a multidisciplinary approach. Data providers from several disciplines must be empowered to easily and openly share their data in an interoperable and sovereign way. To address this, a newly EU Funded project has officially kicked off in the past months with the aim to deliver a roadmap for implementing and deploying the Green Deal Data Space, an infrastructure that will allow data providers [...]
Green Deal Data Space Earth Day 2023 Message
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GREAT | Green Deal Data Space Project Meeting in Utrecht
Today our project GREAT had a meeting in Utrecht (NL) at the premises of our partner SURF. The aim of the discussion was to go through the current state of the project and update each other about upcoming plans and activities. The meeting started with an overview of the upcoming deliverables, milestones, planning and events. In the first part of the meeting, we also discussed in more detail the work done in WP2 Community Building, WP3 Technical Blueprint, WP4 Business and Governance Schemes, WP5 Priority Datasets, WP6 Roadmap and [...]
GREAT Project at the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) Connected Smart & Sustainable Cities Conference
GREAT Project at the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) Connected Smart & Sustainable Cities Conference Our colleague Nuria De Lama represented GREAT at a panel on "How not to reinvent the wheel-Linking data spaces initiatives" at the Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) Connected Smart and #SustainableCities and Communities Conference in Brussels. 🎯 The discussions' main goal was identifying synergies between data spaces and, in particular, their relationships with smart cities and communities. ❔ Main questions shared with the panellists included the definition of assets that [...]
Green Deal Data Space meets AgriData Space & Smart Communities and Cities
GREAT Project meets AgriDataSpace and Data Space for Smart Cities and Communities As part of our first workshop in February 2023 organised with the support of Data Spaces Support Centre we met the consortium of the AgriDataSpace and the Data Space for Smart Cities and Communities among others to align the outcomes of our project, expand our GDDS community and discover relevant gaps and overlaps of activities. This time we've focused on 3 key areas: 1️⃣ Technical & Semantics 2️⃣ Governance and Business Models 3️⃣ Community Building [...]
GREAT | Green Deal Data Space at COP27
GREAT made it to COP27 in November 2022 Climate change means a lot of things to a lot of people. That was evident during GREAT’s presence at the UNFCC Conference of the Parties (COP). For some, it means floods, for others draughts, or job creations and reskilling. For GREAT, it means data. GREAT had the honour to be invited by the University of Helsinki to a side event organised by the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) at the Cryosphere Pavilion. Marta Gutiérrez from EGI Foundation presented [...]
GREAT Project showcased at Blue-Cloud Final Conference
16/12/2022 by Julia Vera (Seascape Belgium) The Blue-Cloud pilot project recently celebrated its Final Conference in Brussels (8 December 2022). The event was an opportunity to learn about the main results and achievements of this key component of the EU “Future of Seas and Oceans Flagship Initiative”. During the event, Project representatives shared the key messages and conclusions stemming from this 3-year effort to build a “marine” thematic community within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Also, as part of the event’s Agenda, a forward look to the road [...]
GREAT at COP27
Data as the basis for policy, innovation and education Marta Gutierrez from the EGI Foundation had the opportunity to represent the GREAT project at COP27 back in November 2022. As part of the Cryosphere Pavilion, our speaker joined a panel titled "Data as the basis for policy, innovation, and education". Organized by the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC), University of Helsinki, in this panel, the speakers showcased successful examples of climate data used by the government, consulting services, the media, and in education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qPvvIBtoEgY
Creating successful data ecosystems: what we learned from data sharing practitioners
Moderator: Esther Huyer, Senior Manager, Capgemini Invent. Speakers: Sébastien Picardat, Coordinator, Agriculture Data Space. Nevena Raczko, Senior Consultant, IDC. Franziska von Scherenberg, Science Advisor, Fraunhofer ISST. Code: 11INFO22210 Format: Information session (followed by Q&A) Theme: Digital Transition Partner: European Commission - DG CNECT Language: English (EN) To enable data sharing, we need ecosystems in which data can be seamlessly exchanged and where policies and economic models are in place that protect individuals' rights and support transparency and fairness. In this panel, data sharing practitioners and [...]