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EUDATA+ Alliance Launched to Drive European Data Economy
November 2025 – The EUDATA+ Alliance, a cluster of seven projects funded under the European Commission's Horizon Europe programme and formed in 2024, is proud to officially announce its mission and activities. This flagship collaboration aims to accelerate data sharing, monetization, and interoperability across Europe, addressing a critical need to unlock the full potential of the European data market.
The Context: A Critical Moment for Europe's Data Economy
In a rapidly evolving global landscape, the European Commission's Competitiveness Compass, unveiled by President Ursula Von Der Leyen on January 29, 2025, highlights the urgent need for economic revitalization. With fierce international competition in the AI sector, Europe's ability to compete hinges on its capacity to leverage data. The European data market is projected to reach €141 billion by 2030, yet a surprisingly low number of companies currently engage in data sharing. This untapped potential represents a significant opportunity, with the right conditions capable of unlocking an additional €270 billion in GDP by 2028.
EUDATA+ is positioned to be a key driver in this transformation.
EUDATA+: A Flagship Collaboration
Initially formed for dissemination purposes, the EUDATA+ cluster has evolved into a more substantial partnership with shared goals and knowledge transfer. The alliance is committed to addressing the challenges of data sharing and is built on four key pillars:
- Scientific and Technical Collaboration: Fostering joint research and development.
- Communication & Dissemination: Building a strong community and sharing project outcomes.
- Business Topics & Strategies: Developing strategies for market exploitation and business models.
- Pilots & Use Cases: Demonstrating the practical application of technologies.
The cluster's offerings include advanced technologies, scalable solutions for high-volume transactions, and approaches for data and metadata interoperability. By integrating research in data management, privacy, monetization, and compliance, EUDATA+ directly contributes to the development of European Data Spaces.
The Projects Involved
The EUDATA+ cluster unites seven projects, each bringing a unique contribution to the alliance:
- PISTIS: A secure platform for sharing, trading, and monetizing proprietary data, leveraging technologies like federated data sharing and AI-driven quality assessment.
- FAME: A unique, trustworthy, energy-efficient, and secure federated multi-sided data marketplace with trading and monetization for applications and services in Embedded Finance (EmFi) and more.
- UPCAST: A project providing transparent, user-friendly plugins to automate data-sharing agreements across various entities.
- enRichMyData: An open toolbox with scalable components to help organizations enrich their data and improve reusability.
- DATAMITE: A modular, open-source framework to boost data monetization, interoperability, and exchange for SMEs, large enterprises, and public administrations.
- Graph-Massivizer: A scalable platform for processing extreme data as massive graphs, offering open-source tools for data ingestion and analysis.
- ExtremeXP: A human-centred, experimentation-driven analytics framework designed to optimise complex data-driven workflows—integrating user preferences, feedback, and analytics variants to yield accurate, personalised, trustworthy insights.
EUDATA+ at the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2025
The EUDATA+ Cluster is set to host a high-impact session, "EUDATA+: A Journey Through the Data Lifecycle - Innovations, Use Cases, Values," at the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2025. This unique session will take attendees through the full journey of data, from acquisition and enrichment to its real-world exploitation, presenting the outcomes and future outlook of the seven collaborative European projects. Experts from the EUDATA+ projects will demonstrate their innovative solutions across every phase of the data lifecycle—including data ingestion, enrichment, product creation, publication, exchange, and consumption—followed by targeted examples of how these solutions are shaping the future of key European sectors such as Smart Cities, Mobility, Energy, Climate, Finance, Industry, and Innovation. Participants will gain an understanding of both the cutting-edge technologies and the tangible value they deliver in critical applications like climate predictions for insurance, green finance, and smart grid management. Join the session on 13 November at 10:50, DGI Byen, Copenhagen.
If you are interested in discovering more about the EUDATA+ projects, come visit us at our booth from 12 to 14 November; representatives from the seven projects will be there to satisfy your curiosity and exchange feedback.
Contacts and references:
Organizers: Ernesto Troiano ernesto.troiano@gft.com, Richard Stevens <rstevens@idc.com>, Till Christopher Lech <Till.Lech@sintef.no>
Communication: Nuria De Lama Sanchez <ndelama@idc.com>
Press release of EBDVF 2025: https://european-big-data-value-forum.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EBDVF-2025-Press-Release.pdf
Webinar series | Data Monetization: Organizational Maturity and Strategies for Implementation
We are launching the new series of webinars ‘Unlocking Data Value with DATAMITE!’ to showcase the work carried out at DATAMITE over the last years.
On 9 October, Udo Bub from 1001 Lakes, delivered the third webinar in our 'Unlocking Data Value with DATAMITE' series, exploring data monetisation.
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Join DATAMITE at the EBDVF 2025
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2025 will take place in Copenhagen from 12 to 14 November. Organised by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), the EBDVF is the flagship event of the European Big Data, Value and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community. It brings together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policymakers from Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions and industrial and research activities in the areas of data and AI.
DATAMITE will be there for the third consecutive year, and we are very excited to be back! The project is proud to be a sponsor of the EBDVF 2025. As part of our sponsorship activities, we will have a booth where we will share the progress and main achievements of the DATAMITE project to date with the hundreds of visitors and participants expected to attend.
In addition to the Booth, DATAMITE is organising and hosting a session entitled 'Data Interoperability and Monetisation: Framework, Use Cases and Market Adoption', taking place on Thursday 13 from 14:00 to 15:00. This session will present the DATAMITE framework, which facilitates data monetisation, interoperability and trading across sectors. We will present real-world examples in which the framework has been validated and supported the development of the Data Maturity Model. We will also demonstrate how some of its components are already being offered as services by partners and incorporated into market-oriented solutions that support businesses. Finally, a panel discussion will explore how these solutions can accelerate adoption and market impact, translating technical innovation into real business value.
As we did for the 2024 edition, we will be hosting a session with the EUDATA+ cluster, as well as sharing a 6-square-metre booth. Taking place on Thursday 13 from 11:00 to 13:00, the session will build on last year's topic by exploring the data lifecycle in depth, from generation to monetisation. It will showcase innovative tools and solutions and explain how they can enhance companies' data management and monetisation strategies.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet our talented team in person. We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!
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Webinar series | Data Valuation: Maximizing Business Potential
We are launching the new series of webinars ‘Unlocking Data Value with DATAMITE!’ to showcase the work carried out at DATAMITE over the last years.
On 2 October, Rob Schneider from FIR an der RWTH Aachen, Margit Hofer from Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) and Eduardo Vyhmeister from University College Cork delivered the second webinar in our 'Unlocking Data Value with DATAMITE' series, exploring data valuation.
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The Open Source Community Day 2025
The Open Source Community Day, organised by the Eclipse Foundation in collaboration with EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu took place in Madrid on 23 and 24 September. The event offered EU-funded projects a unique opportunity to engage directly with the open source community, providing a space to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas. Contributors, researchers, developers and innovators from the open source community gathered in Madrid to explore the future of digital technologies and collaborative development.
As part of the event's dissemination and collaboration activities, a community session was hosted where participants could present their ongoing research, open-source initiatives and project outcomes. DATAMITE was one of the projects presented by the Eclipse Foundation, as they are part of our consortium. David Remón and his colleagues at Eclipse used the DATAMITE trifold to engage with the community at the event, talking to other researchers and developers about DATAMITE. “They were very interested in our open-source strategy and how we collaboratively built the framework”, he reflects.
Open Source Community Day 2025 was a vibrant gathering of individuals united by their passion for open-source software and technology. During the event, the importance of collaboration across borders and industries in Europe was emphasised, as was the role of open-source software in enabling researchers, developers and industries to build innovative, secure and sustainable solutions. “DATAMITE is built on open source principles, and by taking part in this initiative we strengthen links with other research projects and developers focused on data as a driver of innovation and growth in a trusted and fair manner”, says David Remón.
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Webinar series | Legal Frameworks for Data Trading: Ensuring Legal & Ethical Compliance
We are launching the new series of webinars 'Unlocking Data Value with DATAMITE!' to showcase the work carried out at DATAMITE over the last years.
On 18 September, Polina Petrova from Law and Internet Foundation and Margit Hofer from Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) launched our new webinar series: 'Unlocking Data Value with DATAMITE'. They delivered a one-hour webinar exploring the legal frameworks for data trading.
You can view the presentation here.
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DATAMITE at the APMS Conference
The APMS Conference took place in Kamakura, Japan, from 31 August to 4 September. This event brought together leading international experts from academia, industry and government who specialise in manufacturing, service and logistics systems. Attendees explored cutting-edge developments in cyber-physical-human production systems. The conference addressed key challenges and advancements in smart factories and warehouses, autonomous production systems, sustainable supply chains and human-centric AI applications.
The conference featured original, high-impact academic contributions as part of its programme, with a paper on DATAMITE being one of the selected works. Martin Loers, from DATAMITE's partner FIR an der RWTH Aachen, presented the paper “Supporting Strategic Decision Making for Data Monetization in the Era of Digital Transformation”. The work, carried out in the context of DATAMITE, introduces a framework of twelve distinct data monetization strategies derived from academic research and industry case studies.
You can read the paper here.
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Consultation European Commission for the Forthcoming Data Union Strategy: Views of the DATAMITE Consortium
In line with its policy of contributing to open science and having a real impact on European data policies, DATAMITE is making its views on the European Commission's consultation for the forthcoming Data Union Strategy available to everyone.
Law and Internet Foundation, a DATAMITE partner, has written a policy brief in which DATAMITE aims to contribute to and enhance the forthcoming New European Strategy for Data. “In view of the launched Open Consultation on the forthcoming New European Strategy for Data, the following paragraphs are concerned with evaluating considerations drawn from the experience of DATAMITE, but also general views beyond its context, that shall serve as guiding points when deciding on the pillars of the New Strategy”, she says.
Read the EU Data Strategy policy brief here, or the extended version here.
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) 2025
The 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) was held from 26 - 29 June in a Hybrid format, in Limassol, Cyprus, and online. AIAI is a renowned international conference that brings together scientists and researchers each year to exchange the latest and most cutting-edge advances in the field. Its programme includes workshops that provide an ideal setting for the presentation of leading-edge conference papers. For the second consecutive year, DATAMITE was well represented at the conference by its partner, OTE.
Organised by OTE Group of Companies (HTO) and dozens of EU scientific partners, the 'B5G – Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge' (B5G-PINE) workshop, was the main event where DATAMITE was represented. This workshop aimed to disseminate knowledge obtained from ongoing EU projects in the wider thematic area of 'B5G/6G Innovative Activities – Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge', focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) in modern 5G/B5G telecommunications infrastructures. As part of the workshop, a poster about the project was displayed throughout the conference, and OTE presented two papers related to DATAMITE.
"Towards a Data Monetization Maturity Model", where authors introduced DMMM, the first scientifically grounded maturity model designed to help organizations assess, plan, and evolve their data monetization capabilities. This tool bridges the gap between ambition and actionable strategy. Read it here.
"Transforming Data Management in Telecommunications: The Case Study of OTE Group’s Integration with the DATAMITE Project", where authors shared a real-world framework from the OTE Group's journey in aligning complex, large-scale data ecosystems with DATAMITE's vision—leveraging open-source modularity to enable monetization, interoperability, and streamlined data exchange in telecom. Read it here.
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DATAMITE at the AI Connected Business World 2025
The 15th AI Connected Business World took place on 24 June in Athens, Greece. With the theme of “Bridging the Connected World: From Vision to Connection”, the event emphasised the importance of technology, innovation and connectivity in creating a sustainable and connected world. It also highlighted the importance of interoperability and collaboration between businesses and other stakeholders in driving progress and bridging the digital divide.
The aim of the conference was to bring together key figures in innovation, including representatives from local government, businesses, research institutions and start-ups. Among them was DATAMITE partner OTE Group of Companies (OTE), who attended the event and presented the project at their stand. They promoted DATAMITE at the booth using an informative roll-up banner and a virtual assistant to engage with visitors and talk to them about the project.
The conference focused on key areas set to shape the future, including smart cities, smart buildings, the Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity, civil protection technology, and business networking. Practical examples and innovative solutions were presented to demonstrate how technology and strategic partnerships can bolster infrastructure resilience and promote sustainability.
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