Deploying and operating a European framework for the secure and trusted data space for agriculture (Common European Agricultural Data Space)
Start date: 1 April 2025
End date: 31 March 2028
In a nutshell:
The European Commission, through the Digital Europe programme and the European Data Strategy, aims to create Common European Data Spaces to stimulate innovation and build a thriving data economy, while upholding ethical and legal standards. These data spaces are crucial for advancing AI and Cloud to Edge computing, supported by legislation such as the Data Governance Act (DGA) and the Data Act (DA).
Among the 14 sectors, the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) focuses on the agri-food sector, integrating data, infrastructures, governance and business models to facilitate secure data sharing.
The preparatory AgriDataSpace project, in collaboration with the Data Space Support Centre, has already framed the necessary building blocks and roadmap scenarios. The CEADS project aims to deploy and operationalize this data space, ensuring secure and trusted data sharing for the agri-food sector, including public administrations. This will enhance economic, environmental, and societal value while maintaining high standards of privacy, security, and ethics.
The deployment of CEADS will adopt a lean multi-actor development approach, grounded in innovation ecosystem science and practice. This approach involves deploying the CEADS through 3 consecutive minimum viable product (MVP) cycles, including phases of co-design and adaptation, implementation and integration, testing and operation, and evaluation. The project will conclude with a comprehensive roadmap and sustainability plan for the upscaling and consolidation of CEADS.
CEMA’s role:
CEMA’s role is to support design and implement the technological infrastructure for the envisioned CEADS through requirements elicitation i.e. to collect, analyse, document, and validate requirements from Use Cases and additional stakeholders of the CEADS, ensuring the design of technical components meets the actual needs. In addition, CEMA will support development of business and governance models and align them with ethical, legal, and social aspects leading to increased adoption rates of the CEADS. Finally, using its extensive network, CEMA will support creation of a robust and comprehensive ecosystem by analysing the current landscape, identifying gaps, and proposing solutions to fill them as well as communicate and disseminate work, results, benefits, and values of CEADS to stakeholders as one of the CEADS core activity.
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Co-funded by the European Union in the frame of Digital Europe Programme under grant agreement no. 101195295. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
