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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DATAMITE presents a paper poster at CIRED 2025
The 2025 CIRED - Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution took place from 16 to 19 June in Geneva, Switzerland. With over 1,600 people attending the conference and 3,000 people visiting the exhibition, CIRED is one of the world’s leading energy conferences. The event featured talks from leading industry figures, roundtable debates, research information forums based on R&D, and guided poster tours.
Ricardo Henriques from E-REDES travelled to Geneva to present a paper poster on DATAMITE at the exhibition. The paper, titled 'Sharing Electricity Distribution Data Through Energy Data Spaces Using the DATAMITE Framework', explores how Distribution System Operators (DSOs) can share electricity distribution data via Energy Data Spaces using the DATAMITE Framework. It does so by examining the use cases implemented by E-REDES in Portugal to enhance its open data portal and test the sharing of data products with external stakeholders, and by HEDNO in Greece to enable data exchange between a DSO and an energy service provider for system planning enhancement.
Ricardo Henriques presented the poster paper on behalf of the authors of the paper: himself; Pedro Boto (E-REDES); Savvas Manikas, and Konstantinos Kontodimas (both from HEDNO); Jordi Arjona (ITI); Vasilis Siopidis, Konstantinos Votis and Dimitrios Tzovaras (all from CERTH); Valentín Sánchez (TECNALIA); and Ilknur Çulani, Silvia Castellvi, and Sonia Jiménez (all from the International Data Spaces Association).
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DATAMITE at SMARTCOMP 2025
The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) took place from 16 to 19 June in Cork, Ireland. SMARTCOMP is the leading conference in the field of smart computing, which is a multidisciplinary domain based on advances in sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, edge computing, big data analytics, machine learning, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence.
This year's conference programme included the 1st International Workshop on Smart AI Models and Data Sharing and Monetisation (SmartAIDa), held 16 June. SmartAIDa aimed to address the growing need for effective frameworks and technologies that enable the sharing, monetisation, and governance of AI models and datasets. As artificial intelligence becomes a cornerstone of innovation across industries, leveraging its full potential requires robust infrastructures, interoperability, and a focus on trust, security, and value creation. Jordi Arjona (ITI), DATAMITE's technical coordinator, was the keynote speaker, and several consortium members presented DATAMITE-related papers.
The keynote, entitled 'AI & Data Spaces: The Rise of (Data) Quality', focused on the importance of quality data. Jordi Arjona stated that, with the arrival of Data Spaces and the disruption caused by Generative AI, data quality is once again in the spotlight and will play an even more important role at the intersection of these two worlds. The four DATAMITE-related papers presented at the workshop were:
'Towards a Framework for Intelligent Sampling: Comprehensive Review of Challenges, AI Techniques and Tools', presented by Lander Bonilla (Tecnalia and the University of Deusto), provides an overview of the key challenges associated with traditional data sampling methods. These challenges include class imbalance, overfitting and bias. The paper then explores how AI techniques can solve these problems and improve the sampling process.
'Validating a Strategy Questionnaire for Data Monetization', presented by Martin Loers (FIR and RWTH Aachen University), introduces a questionnaire-based tool designed to help organisations select appropriate data monetisation strategies based on their business models. The tool is built on academic research, industry insights and expert input, and maps responses to one or more of twelve predefined strategies.
'Data Monetization Through Tailored Demand Representation', presented by Eduardo Vyhmeister (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork), explores how detailed consumer demand models can support more effective data monetisation strategies. The paper reviews various methods of capturing digital market behaviour, improving upon them by taking elements such as price sensitivity, trust and quality perception into account.
'A Tool for Fairness Assessment and Red‑Lining Detection in AI Systems', presented by Dimitrios Bikoulis (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork), introduces a practical framework for evaluating fairness in complex AI systems. The tool brings together advanced fairness metrics and association analysis to reveal hidden biases and proxy variables tied to sensitive attributes, which are key indicators of indirect discrimination or red-lining.
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DATAMITE at EGI 2025
The EGI 2025 Conference organised by EGI Foundation was held in Santander, Spain, from2 to 6 June. The conference brought together international scientific communities, IT and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policy makers to discuss data research and innovation. DATAMITE contributed to the conference by exhibiting a poster showcasing some of the work done during the project and delivering a presentation, as well as displaying a project presentation video.
The poster was pitched during the opening ceremony and presented during the next days by Andrea Cristofori (EGI foundation) on behalf of the project authors (C.H. Brandt, P. E. Kyziropoulos, V. Siopidis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, M. González, and A. Cristofori). The poster focuses on the broker modules that publish the data product metadata to EU portals. On all four days of the conference, the DATAMITE poster was on display, with a dedicated afternoon slot for attendees to view it and ask questions to DATAMITE representatives.
The presentation ‘Bridging the Gap: Aligning Strategy, KPIs, and Decision-Making in DATAMITE’ was prepared by Eduardo Vyhmeister and Andrea Visentin (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCC), and Montserrat González (EGI Foundation). The presentation delivered by Andrea and Montserrat explained DATAMITE's work on developing a tool for valuing data based on metrics and KPIs, and the motivations and challenges faced along the way. It also took the opportunity to encourage all attendees to test the tool and provide feedback.
As a partner of the DATAMITE project, the EGI Foundation displayed a video presentation for the DATAMITE project to support its dissemination, communication, and exploitation activities.
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DATAMITE's presence at Data Week 2025
Data Week 2025, the spring gathering of Europe's Big Data and Data-Driven AI research and innovation community, took place in Athens, Greece, from 27 to 28 May. With the theme 'Odyssey of AI: Navigating the Data Seas', this year's edition focused on the fundamental elements of data value creation. As usual, DATAMITE was well represented at the event, with a presence in one workshop and as part of the EUDATA+ cluster.
On Tuesday 27, Christos Gizelis from OTE represented DATAMITE at the 'Monetisation & Governance Across Mobility, Media and Trustworthy Data Sharing' session. This session explored methodologies from the DATAMITE project for unlocking the value of data, alongside OTE’s Pluto framework for ensuring robust data governance. Collaboration across trustworthy data sharing (PISTIS), media (FAME), and mobility (MobiSpaces) was highlighted, demonstrating how different sectors are tackling data monetisation and governance while ensuring security, interoperability, and compliance.
On 28 May, the last day of the conference, the EUDATA+ cluster held a session in the plenary room titled 'EUDATA+: Solutions for Data Trading and Marketplaces (Insight for the Future of AI and Data Spaces)'. The session explored ways to advance the state of AI and data spaces in relation to data trading and pricing solutions. It began with an introduction to the cluster's evolution and activities, with a focus on the roles of AI and data spaces in the economics of data.
Two keynote presentations examined technological challenges. Professor George Konstantinidis (University of Southampton) and Dr Martin Serrano (University of Galway, DSI-Insight Centre) discussed the challenges involved in developing AI systems that comply with regulations and respect privacy in federated data environments. This was followed by an overview of EUDATA+'s contributions to the Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda. This showcased real-world tools for data valuation and highlighted technological gaps and challenges.
Finally, the session featured a panel of experts who provided specialised insights into relevant topics associated with developments and demonstrations. The panel offered the audience valuable insights into the progress of cutting-edge developments and their involvement in EU Horizon Data Projects. This interactive format enabled a rich exchange of perspectives across scientific, technical, and data-business-oriented domains. Speakers included Daniel Saez representing DATAMITE, who discussed 'Tools for data interoperability in heterogeneous environments'; Fernando Perales representing enRichMyData, who presented 'Automation and data enrichment workflows for developing data businesses'; Yiannis Verginadis representing ExtremeXP, who presented 'NFT-based data provenance for large-scale data experiments'; Nikolas Zafeiropoulos representing FAME, who explained 'Federating assets and commercialising them through data marketplaces'; Radu Prodan, representing Graph-Massivizer, discussed 'Tools for large-scale data processing and analytics prior to market entry'; Sotiris Koussouris, representing PISTIS, discussed 'Enabling data monetisation and trading out of the box'; and George Konstantinidis, representing UPCAST, discussed 'Automating data marketplace operations with user-friendly marketplace plug-ins'.
Data Week 2025 was organised by the Big Data Value Association, hosted by Cosmote – OTE, in collaboration with the following BDVA members: Athens Technology Center S.A. (ATC), Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), CORE Innovation Center, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications – National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, FORTH and Neuropublic.
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DATAMITE from a business point of view
Designed with real market needs in mind, DATAMITE enables companies to unlock the value of their data. It provides tailored monetisation strategies, open-source tools and actionable business models to achieve this. In the 'DATAMITE from a business point of view' video series, we explore how DATAMITE facilitates fair data valuation, generates new business opportunities and establishes a foundation for the sustainable exploitation of data across European industries. To this end, we interviewed four partners responsible for some of DATAMITE's use cases.
Konstantinos Kontodimas and Iason Panagos from HEDNO, a key partner in the development of DATAMITE pilots. From a business perspective, HEDNO demonstrates how the DATAMITE Framework empowers organisations to accelerate their digital transformation and enhances the efficiency and sustainability of electricity distribution networks.
Ricardo Henriques and Pedro Boto from E-REDES, DATAMITE’s partner leading the 'Leveraging Electricity Distribution Open Data' Pilot. From a business perspective, a refined version of the DATAMITE framework could be deployed and managed by E-REDES's DATAHUB to share data with external stakeholders. In addition, data stewards could then be given permissions to create artefacts and data products, define relevant data quality KPIs, and define the entities with which the data should be shared, giving them more autonomy in the process.
Achilleas Marinakis and Christos-Antonios Gizelis from OTE, DATAMITE’s partner leading the 'Corporate Multi-Site Data Exchange' pilot. From a business perspective, OTE shows how the DATAMITE Framework can create new opportunities for data-driven innovation and improve operational efficiency in the energy sector.
Federico Piñuela García from Grupo Gimeno, DATAMITE’s partner leading the 'Corporate Multi-Domain Data Exchange with DIH Support' pilot. From a business perspective, Grupo Gimeno uses the advanced data-sharing and analytics capabilities of the DATAMITE framework to optimise processes and unlock new business.
María José López Osa from TECNALIA Research & Innovation, a key partner in the development of the DATAMITE framework. From a business perspective, as a research centre, TECNALIA's experience and knowledge acquired from working on this project would be valuable for continuing to work in the fields of data quality and governance, building on these outcomes to generate more valuable findings.
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