OEMC Global Workshop 2024 – Data Spaces Session

“Data Spaces: the EC solution for environmental, biodiversity and climate challenges. Different approaches on multisource data, semantics, FAIRness and sovereignty”

Jointly organized by the OpenGeoHub Foundation (OGH) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop 2024 will bring together European and global actors in the field of open-source Earth Observation applications in policy, business, research, and for society. This international workshop will connect project partners, including data and environmental researchers, public and private sector developers, EU decision- and policymakers, representatives from global institutions, the business sector and civil society to discuss and test solutions to the greatest challenges in geospatial applications.

The AD4GD project is participating in this international workshop chairing the session “Data Spaces: the EC solution for environmental, biodiversity and climate challenges. Different approaches on multisource data, semantics, FAIRness and sovereignty”.

Integrity of natural ecosystems is one of the main concerns of current European and Global Green Policies, e.g., the European Green Deal. Public administration managers need reliable and long-term information for a better monitoring of the ecosystems and climate evolution and inform decision makers. Data Spaces are intended to become the EC comprehensive solution to integrate data from different sources with the aim to generate and provide a more ready to use knowledge on climate change, circular economy, pollution, biodiversity, and deforestation. This session aims to discuss pros and cons of some technological solutions in terms of Data Spaces, OGC standards, semantic descriptions, datacubes, FAIR principles and sovereignty of data. It also intends to share lessons learned from main EC projects dealing with the topic: AD4GD, GREAT, B-cubed, Fairicube, etc.