Data Spaces Support Centre

This action will result in the continuation of the operation of the Data Spaces Support Centre. The Centre will continue to coordinate, support, and promote all relevant initiatives related to sectoral data spaces. It will provide essential blueprints, technologies, processes, standards, and tools necessary for the effective deployment, operation, and interconnection of these data spaces, ensuring their seamless integration and functionality across various sectors. It will ensure that key stakeholders from data spaces are involved in these activities.

The Support Centre will include three main work strands:

1.Community Building : maintain and enlarge the network of stakeholders.

• Fostering a community of practice focused on data sharing.
• Engaging participants from projects supported by the EU, especially those funded by the EU.
• Engaging with projects deploying data spaces at European level and that might serve as showcase.
• A particular attention should be given to startups and SMEs in order to facilitate access and participation in data spaces.

2. Governance and Infrastructure Requirements

• Promoting the use of common solutions for data infrastructure across sectoral data spaces, covering technical design, functionality, operation, governance and legal aspects.
• Identifying standards, including semantic standards and interoperability protocols (both domain-specific and crosscutting).
• Engaging in standards development initiatives, where needed, to ensure data space requirements are supported.
• Exploring potential synergies between data spaces and coordinate cross-cutting exchanges among them.
• Promoting data governance models, business strategies, and operational approaches for running data spaces.
• Addressing legal issues and other market-relevant barriers.
• Identifying opportunities for value added services.

3. Platform for knowledge sharing and support : maintenance and development of the DSSC.EU platform. 

The platform will act as a central hub for knowledge sharing, stakeholder support and the development of data spaces. It will provide resources, promote best practices, and allow to connect stakeholders across various initiatives. The platform will also include a customer support centre function, allowing stakeholders to easily get into contact with the DSSC for specific support requests.

The Data Spaces Support Centre addresses a wide range of stakeholders involved in the creation, maintenance, and governance of common European data spaces. It aims to create a collaborative environment where these diverse stakeholders can work together to establish common data spaces that are secure, interoperable, and trustworthy. These stakeholders include European organisations from different sectors:

• Private
• Public
• Academia
• Civil Society

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