DATAMITE host its second plenary meeting in Athens
From 28 to 30 June, the DATAMITE Consortium met in Athens to host its second plenary meeting . Three days of intense work that have served to recognise what has been achieved so far and to focus on the road ahead to achieve our goal: to provide a modular, open-source and multi-domain Framework for Improving Data Monetisation.
The meeting, hosted at the premises of OTE Group of Companies, took place over three full days to to be able to analyse in detail the impulses that are needed in the coming months to develop the DATAMITE framework and to turn theoretical advances into tangible results that will revolutionise the European Data Market.
The first day of the meeting was dedicated to project management issues and to the design, development and preparation, including vital topics, such as the architecture of the Framework and the ecosystem development and community building. During the second day, a variety of topics were discussed, such as data sharing mechanisms and data sovereignty; data governance, data quality, security and support modules; the non-monetary dimensions, with a technical workshop led by Centre for Social Innovation; and the
Outreach, Exploitation and Collaboration of the project.
To conclude the plenary session, the third day was devoted to an in-depth discussion of all the use cases in which the feasibility and performance of the different modules of the DATAMITE Framework will be tested.
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DATAMITE participates in EGI2023
The EGI -Enabling Grids for E-Science- Conference 2023 (EGI2023), took place from 19 to 23 June, in the Polish city of Poznań. EGI2023 is one of the most important dates for international scientific communities, computing and service providers, European projects, security experts, community managers, and policy makers to gather to take research and innovation in data-intensive processing and analytics forward.
During this year's edition, DATAMITE has been one of the European projects represented, both with a physical booth and with the intervention of some of the members of the consortium in different sessions. DATAMITE had the honour of being one of the projects that had a booth to introduce the project in detail to all conference attendees. There, representatives of ITI, the project coordinator, and WODR, one of the use case providers, were able to discuss, among other topics, the main objectives of DATAMITE, the project's approach to better monetise European Data, the different use cases in which the framework is being tested. A video was also screened, which you can watch here.
On the 21st June, Maciej Zacharczuk (WODR), representing DATAMITE, discussed the Agriculture Use Case -Connecting eDwing to Data Markets- during the session "Dataspaces and AI/ML services in the agricultural domain". This session presented several ongoing initiatives related to the creation of agricultural data spaces, as well as selected AI/ML-focused projects that will contribute to the data spaces.
On the following day , 22nd June, Paolo Calciati (ITI), gave the presentation “DATAMITE: DATA Monetization, Interoperability, Trading & Exchange”, as part of the session “Data Spaces: governance consultation”. This session focused on the Data Spaces governance framework and examples of some of the complexities surrounding the governance of data spaces, including the monetisation of data. Paolo Calciati, representing DATAMITE, presented an overview of the challenges and solutions ahead in this area.
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DATAMITE at DATA WEEK 23
The Data Week 2023, which is the spring gathering of the European Big Data and Data Driven AI research and innovation communities, took place from the 13th to the 19th of June 2023 in Luleå, Sweden. During the event, the participants share knowledge and results, discuss topics of common interest, find synergies, build new collaborations, and identify new challenges and recommendations. Data Week is also a great opportunity to link the communities and their results to European policies and market needs and brings European initiatives and activities closer to local communities.
On the 13th of June, Liliana Beltrán, Project Manager at ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática representing DATAMITE participated in the session on “Technological Enablers for the Next-Level Data Economy”. The session brought together four Horizon Europe projects (UPCAST, FAME, PISTIS and DATAMITE) that build digital technologies, solutions and interoperable frameworks for data markets and the data economy. The focus of the session was on the technologies, solutions and frameworks that the four projects are developing. Technologies that facilitate the collection, sharing, storing, processing, trading and reusing of data in compliance with the legal framework and satisfying the needs, expectations and rights of the data providers, brokers, users and data subjects.
We had the opportunity to explore the main challenges and barriers to data monetisation, and discuss DATAMITE's main objective. We also presented our modular, open-source and multi-domain Framework. “One highlight of the panel was our vision for the future of the Data Economy and the paramount importance of robust use cases. We firmly believe that to embark on a new era of the data economy, it is crucial to prioritize efforts in enhancing data quality. High-quality data is a fundamental aspect of successful data monetization”, explains Liliana Betrán.
It was an honor to share the session with other fascinating projects that are shaping the future of the data landscape. Together, we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the Data Economy.
Data Week 2023 is co-organised by BDVA and EUHubs4Data project in collaboration with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). Data Week is the combination of local and regional events organised by the BDVA i-Spaces [i-Spaces] in the framework of the EUHubs4Data project and the main European event.
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Women in Tech Summit 2023
The Perspektywy Women in Tech 2023, the biggest conference and career fair for women in tech in Europe, took place on 14 and 15 June in Warsaw, Poland. The Expo XXI brought together leading engineers, programmers, specialists, scientists, entrepreneurs, activists, leaders and startups, students and early career women, as well as men and everyone who supports diversity in the STEM, Tech and IT industries.
The Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2023 featured more than 150 inspiring female speakers and distinguished special guests on four stages, as well as dozens of tech talks and workshops. Leading topics at this year's summit included artificial intelligence and machine learning, deep tech, cloud solutions, quantum computing and digital ecology, as well as WEB 3.0 and NFT.
In keeping with DATAMITE's commitment to equality and to increasing the participation of women and diversity at all levels within DATAMITE and, consequently, in society, DATAMITE joined the Women In Tech Summit on the PSNC booth. The Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center is responsible for the integration and release of the DATAMITE framework through the six use cases. As a known node of the European Research Area in the field of IT infrastructure of science, actively participates, presenting its projects involving women scientists at its stand. DATAMITE, of course, was one of the projects they presented and promoted to the large audience.
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DATAMITE participates in the National Field Days
The National Field Days, the largest industry event in Poland, attracting tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of industry companies from all over Poland every year, took place from 3 to 5 June in the Polish city of Sielinko. Two members of the DATAMITE consortium had a leading role during the event; the Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Centre in Poznan (WODR) organised it, and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) presented modern IT solutions for agriculture supporting the event’s Innovation Zone.
The Innovation Zone focused on modern agriculture in practice and the demonstrations of the most modern tools used in agriculture. PSNC and WODR presented the eDWIN application which supports farmers in farm management, and which is a key part of the DATAMITE agricultural use case: Connecting eDWIN to Data Markets.
PSNC marked its presence in the Innovation Zone, by presenting the results of projects related to agriculture, such as DATAMITE, and by holding different workshops on data sharing in agriculture, a key topic within the DATAMITE project.
The PSNC booth was visited by the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, and thePolish Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Robert Telus.
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DATAMITE at ITM Industry Europe 2023
ITM Industry Europe is the leading trade fair in Poland, where the offer of Polish and global industry, whose products and services are in line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is widely presented. The 2023 edition took place from 30 May to 1 June, and DATAMITE was there.
The Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), member of the DATAMITE consortium participated in the Panel “SME support tools in the transformation towards the industry of the future”. Michał Błaszczak, from PSNC, discussed the cooperation between universities, research institutes and companies contributing to innovation within Industry 4.0. DATAMITE is a great example of this topic, bringing together a balanced team of 26 complementary organisations, including research & development partners, academic partners, large industrial partners, SMEs, and a standardisation body.
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The first DATAMITE newsletter is out!
Welcome to the DATAMITE Newsletter. As part of our commitment to open science and the dissemination of project progress, at DATAMITE we will publish a quarterly newsletter. In the newsletter, readers will find the progress of our use cases and of the development of our platform, the most outstanding news, the presence of DATAMITE in the most relevant events and conferences in the sector, and much more!
You can find it in our Zenodo repository, together with all public content of the project. And to not miss any update, subscribe to our newsletter here.
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Project cluster: HORIZON-CL4-2022-DATA-01-04
One of the main intentions of DATAMITE is to harness the multiplier capacity of initiatives advocating for the data economy. The more the merrier. That is why the project leverages the consortium’s leadership and participation in active ecosystems to create synergies, bridging the collaboration across the data value chain.
DATAMITE exploits the leading position of the consortium to nurture strategic synergies, creating visibility and fostering adoption of the open-source modules among the major EU ecosystems. Rather than building a small-scale silo, the project addresses and influences well-established communities. Special attention to build technical and promotional synergies with the project cluster under the same topic: HORIZON-CL4-2022-DATA-01-04: Technologies and solutions for data trading, monetizing, exchange and interoperability (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership).
FAME: Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance
FAME [Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance], is a joint effort of world-class experts in data management, data technologies, the data economy, and digital finance to develop, deploy and launch to the global market a unique, trustworthy, energy-efficient, and secure federated data marketplace for Embedded Finance (EmFi). The FAME marketplace will alleviate the proclaimed limitations of centralized cloud marketplaces towards demonstrating the full potential of the data economy.
FAME will become operational in a federated cloud environment with multiple providers of EmFi data assets, including datasets, AI/ML models, and more. It will become interconnected with more than 12 data marketplaces that will support the implementation of 7 pilots. Furthermore, FAME will establish a Learning Center (LC) for tech and non-tech users, as this is a key prerequisite for unlocking the potential of the data economy.
PISTIS: Promoting and Incentivising Federated, Trusted, and Fair Sharing and Trading of Interoperable Data ASsets
PISTIS [Promoting and Incentivising Federated, Trusted, and Fair Sharing and Trading of Interoperable Data ASsets] brings forward a reference federated data sharing/trading and monetisation platform for secure, trusted and controlled exchange and usage of proprietary data assets and data-driven intelligence. PISTIS will advance the available techniques and technologies, such as federated data discovery and sharing, DLTs, data non-fungible tokens (NFTs), AI-driven data quality assessment and monetisation, to build trust among stakeholders and assuage their concerns. Such stakeholders will formulate a distributed network of existing and new data spaces with built-in governance brought by PISTIS to eliminate silos while accruing the actual data value and multiplying it through derivative assets in a fair and transparent manner.
UPCAST: Universal Platform Components for Safe Fair Interoperable Data Exchange, Monetisation and Trading
UPCAST [Universal Platform Components for Safe Fair Interoperable Data Exchange, Monetisation and Trading] provides a set of universal, trustworthy, transparent and user-friendly data market plugins for the automation of data sharing and processing agreements between businesses, public administrations and citizens. Their plugins will enable actors in the common European data spaces to design and deploy data exchange and trading operations guaranteeing automatic negotiation of agreement terms, dynamic fair pricing, improved data-asset discovery, privacy, commercial and administrative confidentiality requirements, low environmental footprint, as well as ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and ethical and responsibility guidelines.
Four real-world pilots across Europe will operationalise a set of working platform plugins for data sharing, monetisation and trading, deployable across a variety of different data marketplaces and platforms, ensuring digital autonomy of data providers, brokers, users and data subjects, and enabling interoperability within European data spaces.
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How will we contribute to the EU Year of skills?
Following the announcement by President Ursula von der Leyen in her last State of the Union speech, 2023 is the European Year of Skills. The main objective of this year is to help companies, in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to address skills shortages in the EU. As the European Commission highlights, having a workforce with the skills that are in demand contributes to sustainable growth, leads to more innovation and improves companies' competitiveness.
In the current world, characterized by concern for the environment and the digital revolution of the industry impacting all economic sectors, the twin transition (green and digital) opens unprecedented opportunities for people and the EU economy. DATAMITE, well aware of the need to improve society digital skills will contribute to upskill on technical and business aspects thanks to the multiple open-source training materials the project will generate.
The Digital Economy and Society Index shows that 4 out of 10 adults and every third person who works in Europe lack basic digital skills. This represents a huge loss of workforce and therefore a loss for the European economy. The European Year of Skills is part of the Europe’ Digital Decade (2020 - 2030) and the 2030 Digital Compass, which targets of at least 80% of adults with basic digital skills and 20 million employed ICT specialists in the EU. DATAMITE has as its core to improve users digital skills to facilitate the monetisation of the European enterprises and public administrations’ data.
DATAMITE delivers 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 for European companies, empowering them to become new relevant players in the data economy. According to the 2030 Digital Compass, 75% of EU companies should use Cloud, AI, and/or Big Data by the end of the decade. DATAMITE’s framework is designed to overcome these challenges helping the European companies to unleash the monetization potential of their data by developing a set of key modules:
- Data Governance.
- Quality.
- Security.
- Sharing.
- Supporting Tools.
DATAMITE will contribute to improve European digital skills and the European high-tech business potential by unleashing the monetisation potential of Big Data at two levels: internal and external. At an internal level, users have tools to improve the quality management of their data, the adherence to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles, and can upskill on technical and business aspects.
At an external level, keeping users in control of their data provides new sources of revenue and interaction with other stakeholders. In addition, the architecture envisioned for DATAMITE enables DIHs sandboxing, becoming a potential instructor on their onboarding of SMEs and low-tech SMEs into the data economy.
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DATAMITE is in ZENODO!
DATAMITE has data sharing in its DNA! DATAMITE develops a modular open-source framework targeted at organisations of any size, letting them use only specific modules they need and focusing on maximising their compatibility and ease of integration with any system already in place. In addition, DATAMITE produces high quality training material allowing a fast uptake of the framework and upskilled users as well as a strong open-source community that supports newcomers.
Consequently, and to make not only the results, but the entire process accessible to everyone, DATAMITE uses Zenodo repository, which contains all information and data pertaining to the development of the project. Zenodo is used as a trusted repository where third parties have access to all public datasets thanks to a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which make them easily fundable. The intention is to keep all Open Access data stored in Zenodo accessible for an indefinite time.
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