The Smart Specialisation Platform on Energy, update on activities

This project summary provides information on the SMART GROUND project: 1) The SMART GROUND project received €2.496.800,10 in funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 641988 to last from October 1, 2015 to March 31, 2018. 2) The project aims to foster resource recovery from landfills by improving data availability and accessibility on secondary raw materials in the European Union. It will integrate existing and new data into a single EU database. 3) Additionally, the project seeks to enhance the economic and employment potential of secondary raw materials by providing training and forming a network of stakeholders committed to research and technology transfer.

SMART GROUND Poster

2nd e-ROSA Stakeholder workshop: Keizer, Vision Paper

The document summarizes the proceedings of the eROSA 2nd Stakeholder workshop held in Wageningen, Netherlands in 2017. eROSA is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program to develop an open e-science infrastructure for agriculture. The workshop discussed developing FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) agricultural data resources and services, and a vision for 2030 where food systems produce healthy food through sustainable methods while supporting environmental and social goals. The workshop also covered global collaboration opportunities and implementation status of agricultural infrastructures.

2nd e-ROSA Stakeholder workshop: Hologne, E-ROSA process

The e-ROSA project received EU funding to develop a roadmap for an e-infrastructure to support open science in agriculture. It held a stakeholder workshop where participants discussed challenges around increasing data volumes in agri-food sciences from various sources, issues with data sharing between public and private sectors, and how e-infrastructure could help address needs by improving data access, processing, and preservation while supporting open science practices and community engagement. Key topics for the roadmap included e-infrastructure governance models and identifying technical and scientific services to articulate user needs and facilitate research.

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Andreas Drakos

agINFRA: the vision for an EU research hub for agriculture, food & the enviro...

Nikos Manouselis

E-Infrastructure for open agri-food sciences - The landscape

eROSA has received funding from the European Union to map out the technical ecosystem for open agriculture and food science data. The mapping is based on analyzing various eROSA, RDA, and other project activities and identifies organizations, initiatives, data sources, and research infrastructures. The landscape analysis found that while there is massive data production, data is often siloed and difficult to find or access due to immature practices around data management, sharing, and analysis. Challenges include technical issues like long-term preservation and semantics standardization as well as cultural challenges engaging communities and developing sustainable governance models.

The document discusses Austria's national open government data portal called data.gv.at. It aims to have federal, state, and local governments cooperate on common standards for open data to create an effective framework. The goals are to represent interests across levels of government and connect to other open data initiatives. The portal launched in 2012 and plans to expand features like self-administration, dynamic elements, and integrating Austrian datasets into a European catalog while potentially offering paid dataset hosting.

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SEENET-MTP

TECH4EFFECT- Knowledge and technologies for effective wood procurement

dfichtenbauer

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The EU-Brazil Preliminary Research Priorities Report - by ATMOSPHERE project

ATMOSPHERE .

Open Data and Open Science in the European Commission

This document discusses the role of open data and open science in the European Union. It outlines the EU's support for open access through various council conclusions and recommendations promoting more open and data-driven research. The EU plans to require immediate open access to publications without embargoes and open licensing of copyrighted works. The document also mentions the EU's actions in response to COVID-19, including an open data portal and coordinated research efforts, and questions if this crisis will further promote open science policies long term.

Europeana Newspapers - the Gateway to European Newspapers Online

cneudecker

EGI and EUDAT support to the PaNOSC project

EGI Federation

The 2018 European Commission Data Package

The document summarizes key elements of the European Commission's 2018 Data Package, which outlines measures to create a common European data space by making different types of data more accessible and reusable across borders and sectors. It discusses proposals to recast the Public Sector Information Directive to require member states to make high-value public and research data available through APIs for free reuse. It also covers principles for business-to-business data sharing and facilitating data delivery from companies to the public sector while respecting commercial interests. Finally, it outlines revisions to the Commission Recommendation on access to scientific information to update open science policies and practices.

SMART GROUND TIMELINE

The document outlines the goals of the SMARTGROUND project which include obtaining quantitative and structural data from secondary raw material resources through landfill modeling and characterization. It aims to create a data bank repository with an analysis framework to enhance availability and accessibility of secondary raw material data in the EU. The project also seeks to identify sustainability issues for waste streams, conduct socioeconomic analyses, transfer knowledge through networking, and disseminate findings to stakeholders.

4th RDA Europe Science Workshop - The e-ROSA project

The document discusses eROSA, a project that received EU funding to develop a roadmap for an e-infrastructure for open science in agriculture. It aims to illustrate the value of a virtual research environment for the agricultural domain through the Aginfra+ project. The document outlines the different types of agricultural data that exist, challenges around data silos and access, and varying levels of data practices maturity. It proposes some initial resources and services that could be included in an e-infrastructure, focusing on semantics. It emphasizes sustainability and governance models. The overall goal is to facilitate open sharing of agricultural data and knowledge through standardized e-infrastructure tools and services.

The AGINFRA+ Vision: Serving the European Scientists Across Food Systems

AGINFRA

EOSC Stakeholder Forum - The e-ROSA project

This document summarizes a presentation about the eROSA project, which received Horizon 2020 funding. It discusses eROSA's vision for an open e-science infrastructure for agriculture. Some key points include: - eROSA aims to provide shared semantics, data discovery services, and sustainable storage through resources like data portals and virtual research environments. - It compares how organic agriculture aligns with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals around issues like increasing productivity and resilience while reducing environmental impacts. - The document outlines eROSA's status in implementing facets of openness, interoperability, and reuse within the agricultural domain. It closes with eROSA's vision for collaborative, region-specific food systems by

Societal Challnge 5 and Big Data Europe 1st hangout

SC5 focuses on addressing the effects of climate change through climate modeling, impact assessment, and developing climate services. The Big Data Europe (BDE) project aims to help users access and utilize large climate datasets through the development of an integrated data platform. BDE will engage climate researchers and stakeholders to design, build, and evaluate a prototype platform to facilitate big data use in climate science. Workshops will gather requirements, review architectures, and evaluate the platform and its pilots. BDE seeks to provide climate experts and technical specialists tools to better handle, publish, and apply big data resources.

BDE SC2 Workshop 3: AgGate: the French Agricultural Data Platform

The document discusses AgGate, a French agricultural data platform. AgGate aims to (1) allow access and use of agricultural data from public and private sources to facilitate open innovation, (2) create a win-win ecosystem to boost innovative services, and (3) share benefits between farmers, advisors, and companies. The AgGate portal will have five functional modules: a data access portal, digital marketplace, farmer cloud, commercial decision aid showroom, and social space. Key challenges include data integration from different sources, security, anonymization, and developing internal search capabilities. An organizational structure and initial costs are outlined. The project aims to create collaboration around digital agriculture data.

InfoWeek Digitization Day - The e-ROSA project

- eROSA is an 18-month project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme to develop a roadmap for an e-infrastructure to support open science in agriculture. - The objectives are to build a community of researchers and ICT specialists around this issue, improve understanding of relevant existing infrastructures and projects, and develop a shared vision and roadmap. - There is a need for such a roadmap as the agricultural research domain currently lacks a coherent research infrastructure, and faces increasing data volume, variety and flows that require improved data sharing, interoperability and analysis capabilities.

Geo Data Technology Workshop, 25 April 2019, Chris Atherton and Andres Steijaert

Cloud Services for MCAA Fellows

The document discusses a meeting between researchers and innovators in Berlin to discuss cloud services for fellows through the CERN organization, which operates the Large Hadron Collider and has over 3,500 personnel from 23 member states; it also outlines the objectives and services of the OCRE project, which was formed to procure cloud-based services for the European Open Science Cloud with a budget of 9.5 million euro over three years. Analysis of applications for cloud vouchers through the OCRE project found that most applicants were PhD candidates or postdoctoral researchers interested in compute, storage, and data management capabilities.

Sardinia Symposium 2017

EOSC-Pillar European Project

This document describes two toolkits created by the SMART project to help stakeholders evaluate the feasibility of enhanced landfill mining (ELFM) projects. The Enhanced Landfill Mining Toolkits provide necessary information for those interested in conducting an ELFM project, while the Decision Support Tool allows users to conduct an economic, environmental, and social assessment of a proposed ELFM project under different scenarios. Both toolkits are available on the SMART website.

2. EOSC-Pillar: Central and Western Europe’s Plug-in into the EOSC

EOSC-Pillar is a Horizon 2020 project that received €6,880,965 in funding to coordinate national initiatives and harmonize policies to support the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The project will analyze the state of national computing and data services, promote FAIR data practices, enable access to transnational services through the EOSC portal, and validate services for sustainable provision across borders. As part of this work, EOSC-Pillar will conduct a survey of national initiatives covering business models, access policies, and data management to understand the current landscape.

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Michael Hübner

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Arian Zwegers

The document provides an overview of Framework Programme 7 (FP7), the main European Union research and technological development funding programme from 2007-2013. It discusses the various specific programmes, funding schemes, and instruments within FP7. The total budget for FP7 is €32 billion, aimed at supporting trans-national collaboration on research and innovation projects across both private and public sectors.

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