During the 25th, 26th and 27th of January, the DATAMITE Consortium met in Valencia (Spain) to host its kick-off meeting. Members from 26 organisations worked side by side to establish the roadmap to achieve the goals of the project.
The meeting marked the official start of the project, which aims to deliver a modular, open-source and multi-domain Framework to improve Data Monetizing, Interoperability, Trading and Exchange in the form of software modules, training, and business materials.
The consortium brings together key actors of the data value chain, key experts in Legal and SSH aspects to guarantee legal and societal compliance and facilitators on open-source community building and standardisation, presenting itself as a high-level group of multiple European nationalities: Spain (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Universitat Politècnica de València, Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Gimeno Digital Technologies Sociedad Limitada), Germany (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Forschungsinstitut für Rationalisierung, International Data Spaces EV, Eclipse Foundation Europe GMBH, DIN Deutsche Institut für Normung e.V.), Ireland (University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork), Greece (Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Organismos tilepikoinonion tis ellados ote ae, Diacheiristis Ellinikou Diktyou Dianomis Elektrikis Energeias Ae), Poland (Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IDFS Spolka Zoo, Wielkopolski Ośrodek Doradztwa Rolniczego w Poznaniu), Netherlands (Stichting EGI), Estonia (MTU AUSTRALO Alpha Lab), Bulgaria (Pravo i Internet Foundation), Austria (Zentrum fur Soziale Innovation GMBH), Portugal (GLOBAZ, S.A.), Italy (CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario), Finland (1001 Lakes Oy).
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