ELISE Webinar: Emerging Approaches for Data-Driven Innovation in Europe

January 24th 14:00-16:00 CET (UTC+1)

How novel approaches can facilitate and catalyse the exchange of data in line with European values, infrastructures and legal frameworks?

The digital transformation of the European economy and society is framed by the European strategy for data that foresees the establishment of a common European data space based on domain-specific data spaces in strategic sectors such as environment, agriculture, industry, health and transportation.

Acknowledging the key role that emerging technologies and innovative approaches for data sharing and use can play to make European data spaces a reality, the webinar will present the results of a set of experiments and research conducted by a pool of experts, which are part of  the upcoming JRC report “Emerging Approaches for Data-Driven Innovation in Europe”. 

Coordinated by the Digital Economy Unit of the EU Commission Joint Research Centre, the experts investigated emerging technologies, innovative approaches for data sharing and use, and socio-technical factors that occur in data-driven innovation. 

The team from the Digital Economy Unit of the European Commission’s  Joint Research Centre will introduce the report and set the scene from the scientific and policy perspective. In the three subsequent sessions the experts will present and discuss their work. See the agenda below,

More details: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/704912

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rdOuqrzkiE9IgY7aG0al18itApU2FUrZb

Webinar Agenda

Presentation of the report and scene setting from a scientific and policy perspective
Alexander Kotsev, Marco Minghini, Marina Micheli & Sven Schade, European Commission, JRC
Carlos Granell, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Spain
14:00 – 14:15
Session 1. Innovative approaches to data sharing
Introduction to the session 
Combining public sector and citizen-generated data – the case of addressesAlessandro Sarretta, National Research Council, Italy.
Binary serialisation for static and dynamic dataPeter Mooney, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Enforcing automation in building, testing and deployment of software applications – the case of cloud-based data servicesJust van den Broecke, OSGeo.nl, The Netherlands.
Discussion panel
Science and policy takeaways 
14:15 – 14:50
Session 2. IoT and decentralised architectures
Introduction to the session
Processing data close to its origin – edge computing on IoT devicesFrank Ostermann, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Event-driven architectures for data exchangeSimon Jirka, Matthes Rieke, 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH
Discussion panel
Science and policy takeaways 
14:50 – 15:15
Session 3. The social and organisational dimensions of data-driven innovation
Introduction to the session
Addressing public-private partnership for data supply – data collaboratives for air quality in citiesStefaan Verhulst, The GovLab, New York University, US.
Understanding demand for data-driven innovation in the public sector – the case of algorithmic processesLina Dencik, Cardiff University/Marina Micheli, JRC EU Commission.
Aligning EU-level policies and local practices in the advent of European data spacesHillen Oost, Association of Dutch Municipalities / Futura Nova.eu, The Netherlands.
Discussion panel
Science and policy takeaways 
15:15 – 15:50
Wrap-up and next steps15:50 – 16:00

This webinar is a part of a series of “Webinars and events” performed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre under the ELISE ISA² Action. These webinars aim to quickly engage with new topics of relevance to the location interoperability, the digital transformation of government and socio-technical developments in this arena and to share the results and outcomes of ELISE action. ​​​

The webinar will take place on 24/01/2022 at 14h00-16:00 CET (UTC+1).