Data Public-Private Partnership

The Data Public Private Partnership aims at strengthening the data value chain, in order to allow Europe to play a relevant role on Big Data in the global market.

What is the Data PPP about?

The European Commission will team up with European industry (large players and SMEs), researchers, academia in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in order to cooperate in data-related research and innovation, enhance community building around data and in order to set the grounds for a thriving data-driven economy in Europe.
Industry and academia have identified R&I priorities in a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).
In order to reach its objectives the PPP will make use of two major instruments:

• Large lighthouse projects in candidate areas like manufacturing, personalised medicine and energy.
• I-Spaces, environments where infrastructure is made available to bring technology providers and end-users together to identify services, skills, business models and ecosystems in which novel technology and applications can be built.

How will it be managed?

The Data PPP is a partnership between the European Commission and the Big Data Value Association, the association of the European Big Data community which includes data providers, data users, data analysts and research organisations.

The Data PPP will become operational in 2015.

Management

Mission

The laboratory has been activated to create a structure that would make a contribution to the industry Digital Skills - Training - Evaluation - Certification - Enable, interacting with the various levels of the education system, and with the political organization (Regions - State - Europe) both with stakeholders, including the market.

Digital skills. There is currently a strong European movement at various levels to define the set of "digital skills" required (and developed) in the various strata of society. The movement is supported by the Community institutions (the Commission in its branches / Directorate), it is intercepted by organisms "regulators" and more generally by "stakeholders" and the "market". Weak presence of academia.

Areas of research

• Activation of a national Laboratory with a network deployment.
• The Laboratory is involved in research, monitoring and analysis of the overall framework of the results and proposals made at national and international level on the issue of digital skills.
• The Laboratory valid and compare the data obtained through the involvement of stakeholders. By virtue of its specificity it may act as a partner for the developlment and validation of ICT competences profiles at regional and national level.