News about Building a European data economy

A European approach on AI will boost the European Union’s competitiveness and ensure trust based on European values. The European Commission has already invested significant amounts to bring benefits to our society and economy. This factsheet provides an overview of AI in Europe.

Cloud-based services offer researchers a wealth of services but in this maze of powerful tools it is often difficult to find and select the suitables services, not even mentioning how time-consuming all this is.  The EU-funded project OCRE, the "Open Clouds for Research Environments", aims at helping researchers find their way among the myriad of cloud-based services.  €9.5 million will be made available for the European Research community.

Negotiators from the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the Commission have reached an agreement on a revised directive that will facilitate the availability and re-use of public sector data.

Public sector bodies produce and collect huge quantities of data, a valuable raw material for the development of the economy to enable growth and create jobs.

European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel and Austrian Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology Norbert Hofer presented the awards to the four FIWARE ICT Challenge Vienna winners - Team Kios, Team CC, Team Hop Ubiquitous and Team Elmitel - during the closing ceremony of the Commission’s ICT 2018 research and innovation event in Vienna, Austria on 6 December.

The FIWARE ICT Challenge is a developers’ competition taking place at the ICT 2018 event. Participants will create apps that make cities a better place to live in, using real-time data from cities and other data sources, together with FIWARE open source components.

EOSC-hub brings together service providers, research communities and business pilots to create the Hub: a single contact point for European researchers and innovators to discover, access, use and reuse a broad spectrum of resources for advanced data-driven research. Visit EOSC-hub at ICT 2018 in Vienna at exhibition booth EC6.

OpenAIRE engages all stakeholders for an effective Open Science implementation. It fosters open science dialogue for policies and their implementation in Europe and beyond. Visit OpenAIRE at ICT 2018 in Vienna at Exhibition booth EC6.

The Research Data Alliance's (RDA) mission is to build the social and technical bridges to enable open sharing and re-use of data. Come and visit the RDA project at ICT 2018 in Vienna (exhibition booth C06).

Battery technologies are set to play a key role in Europe's energy strategy for reducing our CO2 emissions and mitigating human impact on climate change. And digital technologies have a major role to play in developing the next generation of safe, sustainable batteries. Read the full blog post by Roberto Viola, Director General of DG CONNECT at the European Commission.