Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014 – 2020)

Support Action

Big Data Europe – Empowering Communities with

Data Technologies

Project Number: 644564 Start Date of Project: 01/01/2015 Duration: 36 months

Deliverable 2.8

Report on Interest Groups Workshops V

Dissemination Level Public

Due Date of Deliverable M36

Actual Submission Date M36+, 31.01.2018

Work Package WP2, Community Building & Requirements

Task T2.1

Type Report

Approval Status Approved

Version 1.0

Number of Pages 44

Filename D2.8 - Report on Interest Groups Workshops V

Abstract: This report summarises the organization and derived results from the first four Interest Group workshops organized during the reporting period (Societal Challenges 2 -

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Food & Agriculture, 4 - Transport, 6 - Societies, 7 - Security) and carried out by each group associated with each societal challenges.

The information in this document reflects only the author’s views and the European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. The information in this document is provided “as is” without guarantee or warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the fitness of the information for a

particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at his/ her sole risk and liability.

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History

Version Date Reason Revised by

0.0 25.09.2017 Placeholders Simon Scerri (FhG)

0.1 28.09.2017 SC2 Report Antonella Picarella (FAO)

0.2 18.10.2017 SC4 Report Zane Mezdreija (ERTICO)

0.3 18.10.2017 SC6 Report Ivana Versic (CESSDA)

0.4 15.11.2017 SC7 Report Michele Lazzarini (SatCen), Sergio Albani (SatCen)

0.5 01.12.2017 Cross-check with contributors

Simon Scerri (FhG)

1.0 21.12.2017 Final Report Simon Scerri (FhG), Alexandra Garatzogianni (FhG)

Author List

Organisation Name Contact Information

Fraunhofer Simon Scerri simon.scerri@iais.fraunhofer.de

Fraunhofer Alexandra Garatzogianni alexandra.garatzogianni@iais.fraunhofer.de

FAO Antonella Picarella antonella.picarella@fao.org

SatCen Michele Lazzarini michele.lazzarini@satcen.europa.eu

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SatCen Sergio Albani sergio.albani@satcen.europa.eu

CESSDA Ivana Versic ivana.versic@cessda.net

ERTICO Zane Mezdreija z.mezdreija@mail.ertico.com

Executive Summary In this deliverable we provide an in-depth report and material associated with the first round of

BDE workshops that have taken place between M25 and M33 (4 out of a total of 7 for 2017).

The reports include information about the participants, the sessions organised, the talks and

discussions as well as the gathered results (input for requirement elicitation). In addition,

material associated with the workshop, such as the agenda and the original invitation letter, is

also included. These reports supplement the reports of the 1st and 2nd series of workshops

covered in the first four deliverable in this series (D2.2 Report on Interest Groups Workshop I,

D2.5 Report on Interest Groups Workshop II, D2.6 Report on Interest Groups Workshop III and

D2.7 Report on Interest Groups Workshop IV). A final deliverable will cover the last societal

workshops organised for the project.

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Abbreviations and Acronyms

SC Societal Challenge

EC European Commission

RE Requirement Elicitation

RS Requirement Specification

WP Work Package

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 8

2. Third Round of Societal Workshops (I) .............................................................................. 8

2.1 SC2.3 - Third Community Workshop for Societal Challenge 2 – Food and Agriculture . 8

2.1.1 Agenda .................................................................................................................. 9

2.1.2 Expectations and Background ..............................................................................11

2.1.3 Setting the scene ..................................................................................................12

2.1.4 Discussions ..........................................................................................................13

2.1.5 Conclusions ..........................................................................................................14

2.1.6 Appendices ...........................................................................................................15

2.2 SC6.3 The 3rd BDE SC6 workshop ............................................................................17

2.2.1 Agenda .................................................................................................................18

2.2.2 Workshop Report..................................................................................................18

2.2.3 Appendices ...........................................................................................................20

2.3 SC4.3 BigDataEurope and the Societal Challenge on Transport (3rd Workshop) .......23

2.3.1 Agenda .................................................................................................................24

2.3.2 Background ..........................................................................................................25

2.3.3 Objectives.............................................................................................................26

2.3.4 Conclusions ..........................................................................................................30

2.3.5 Appendices ...........................................................................................................30

2.4 SC7.3 Big Data in Secure Societies (Third Workshop) ................................................34

2.4.1 Agenda .................................................................................................................35

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2.4.2 Aims and Objectives .............................................................................................36

2.4.3 Morning Session ...................................................................................................37

2.4.4 Afternoon Session ................................................................................................38

2.4.5 Appendices ...........................................................................................................39

3. Summary ..........................................................................................................................44

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1. Introduction

This deliverable contains 4 reports for the third round of BigDataEurope workshops held in the third and last year of the project:

1. SC2.3 - Third Community Workshop for Societal Challenge 2 – Food and Agriculture 2. SC6.3 The 3rd BDE SC6 workshop: The importance of Metadata & Big Data in

OpenScience - where are we and where are we going to 3. SC4.3 BigDataEurope and the Societal Challenge on Transport (3rd Workshop) 4. SC7.3 Big Data in Secure Societies (Third Workshop)

A summary and a copy of a detailed workshop report is provided in the next Section. The report has been circulated to all participants and other identified stakeholders. The communication took place via multiple channels, including directly by email, project website and newsletter.

2. Third Round of Societal Workshops (I)

The four below-described workshops are the first to be held in the third round of BDE workshops in 2017. The workshops Invitations were sent to the identified stakeholders, in multiple rounds. The workshops were designed around an updated blueprint which was originally provided in Deliverable 2.1, with minor adjustments to reflect the final round’s focus on dissemination of final pilot activities. A summary of workshop details, plus the full workshop report, are included below.

2.1 SC2.3 - Third Community Workshop for Societal Challenge 2 – Food

and Agriculture

The following table includes a summary of the workshop:

Date 31.03.2017

Venue CLORA, Brussels, Belgium

Attendees (Total) 26

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Attendees (Project Consortium & Project Officer - Replacement) 6

Attendees (Other) 20

Sessions 2

2.1.1 Agenda

08:30 - 09:00 Arrivals & coffee

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome & Introductions Odile Hologne, Nikos Manouselis, Kimmo Rossi

09:30 - 12:00 Session 1. Data Sharing for Collaboration

09:30 - 09:50 Presentation on current status

of the European Open Science

Cloud (EOSC)

Wim Haentjens (DG RTD)

09:50 - 10:10 Presentation from DG AGRI on

current activities (such as the

upcoming EIP AGRI Data

Sharing & Digital Innovation

Hubs seminars)

Ana Cuadrado Galvan (DG AGRI)

10:10 - 10:30 eROSA vision and stakeholder Odile Hologne (INRA) and

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engagement within e-ROSA Johannes Keizer (GODAN)

10:30 - 11:00 Q&A session, open discussion

slot

all

11:00 - 11:20 Presentation slot on French

agricultural data platform

AgGate

Véronique Bellon Maurel (IRSTEA) (remotely via Skype)

11:20 - 11:40 Presentation slot on the

Agrimetrics Institute (UK)

Richard Tiffin (University of Reading / Agrimetrics)

11:40 - 12:00 Q&A session, open discussion

slot

all

12:00 - 12:30 Working Light Lunch break

12:30 - 14:30 Session 2. Building a European Data Economy

12:30 - 12:50 EC Communication on Building

a European Data Economy

Saila Rinne (DG CONNECT)

12:50 - 13:10 Introduction to the CAPS

agenda & agri-food projects;

positioning in the data economy

discussions

Fabrizio Sestini (DG CONNECT)

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13:10 - 13:30 Mapping the global data

ecosystem: introducing the first

activity of the GODAN Data

Ecosystem WG

Nikos Manouselis (Agroknow)

13:30 - 13:50 Presentation of the H2020 Big

Data Lighthouse Pilot DataBio

Karel Charvat (CCCS)

13:50 - 14:10 Presentation of the H2020 IoT

pilot IoF2020

Sjaak Wolfert (WUR LEI)

14:10 - 14:30 Q&A session, open discussion

slot

all

14:30 - 15:00 Wrap up & action points

What does the EC need from the community?

What does the community need from the EC?

Who commits to do what next?

2.1.2 Expectations and Background

The Big Data Europe Consortium, with its partners for societal challenge “food and agriculture” (SC2) FAO and AgroKnow and together with the e-ROSA H2020 CSA represented by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), organized a 2nd workshop on European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food, the third one in the series of Big Data Europe (BDE) workshops for this societal challenge.

The meeting was a follow-up to the 2nd BDE SC2 workshop / 1st policy workshop we held in

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September 2016.

We gathered together again a selected group of EC representatives (from DG AGRI, DG CONNECT, DG RTD, the e-ROSA project but also other initiatives) that are working on agendas or projects relevant either to open data and big data in general or more specifically to the use of data for food and agriculture, as well as a number of actors working in agricultural research and industry and already collaborating in international open data initiatives in our field.

The intention was to give the opportunity to EC representatives (from DG AGRI, DG CONNECT, DG RTD) to share with the community representatives the most recent developments in terms of funding agendas or projects relevant to big and open data in agriculture and food, and also to help projects in Europe to better shape and align their agendas in order to better serve the policy and strategy objectives of the EC.

The one-day workshop took place at the CLORA premises in Brussels on 31/03/2017.

2.1.3 Setting the scene

The agenda (see above) was organized around two main sessions:

2.1.3.1 Session 1: Data sharing for collaboration

In this session, one of the key discussions was on how data sharing may enable collaboration,

covering topics related to the European Science Cloud (EOSC), the FAIR principles, and

the EIP AGRI Workshop on Data Sharing.

Wim Haentjens(DG RTD) presented the current status of the European Open Science Cloud

(EOSC), he explained their work on governance, where they are trying to create an adequate

level of representativeness from different country and different areas of science. He remarked

the need of doing more research actions, more investments regional and private, and

more international collaboration, as well as the urgency of a co-funding model. Wim identified

the following points as main issues of the workshop:

● how to create a culture of data stewardship,

● how to explain the value of open data and sharing data,

● the FAIR principles,

● the research data infrastructure,

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● mapping needs for scientific community.

Ana Cuadrado (DG AGRI) presented the current activities in research and innovation, focused

on how to make farmers invest in technology. She introduced the EIP AGRI Data Sharing &

Digital Innovation Hubs seminars that aims to connect people and existing initiatives that are

able to provide technical and financial contribution to the Digital innovation hub. Johannes

Keizer (GODAN) presented the eROSA vision and the stakeholder engagement within e-

ROSA. Véronique Bellon Maurel (IRSTEA) presented AgGate, a French agricultural data

platform, with the goal to facilitate open innovations for a data driven agriculture, to share

benefits between actors. She emphasized the urgency to have a unique access to data, and

the need to encourage data sharing. Richard Tiffin from the Agrimetrics Institute (UK), a big

data centre of excellence, presented their work on building a federated data ecosystem in order

to make data accessible, to facilitate data sharing, and to make data more valuable.

2.1.3.2 Session 2: Building a European Data Economy

In this session, the discussions were mainly about the recent EC communication on Building

a European Data Economy and how the agriculture and food communities reflect on that.

Some key data-powered H2020 large scale pilot initiatives were presented and discussed.

Saila Rinne (DGCONNECT) presented EU vision about building a European Data Economy

and she remarked the problems related to the limited access to data, the lack of policy

framework, and the contract terms for the weak parts. She also outlined the future EU actions

regarding public consultations with member states to define next steps. Fabrizio Sestini

(DGCONNECT) introduced the CAPS agenda & agri-food projects, he focused on enabling

decentralized data governance, creating distributed architecture where each piece of user-

generated information remains under the full control of the user who generated it. Nikos

Manouselis, in his presentation: “Mapping the global data ecosystem”, introduced the first

activity of the GODAN Data Ecosystem Working group, and he emphasized the importance of

working together to build a powerful data ecosystem. Then two H2020 new projects were

presented: Big Data Lighthouse Pilot DataBio by Karel Charvat, and the H2020 IoT pilot

IoF2020 by Sjaak.

2.1.4 Discussions

Presentations were followed by Q&A sessions and a final discussion took place at the end of

the workshop.

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Among the most relevant issues raised by presentations and questions asked and discussed

at Q&A time were:

● how to make farmers invest in technology

● DG-AGRI explore existing potential data governance models focusing on the benefits

for the farmers

● Importance to have access to banking data

● Problems: limited access to data, lack of policy framework, contract terms for weak

parts, possible solutions: guidance on data sharing, technical solutions to share data,

default contract rules, data producer’s right, access against remuneration,

advantages contract terms favourable.

2.1.5 Conclusions

The workshop itself met the expectations that we had (as set out in the background chapter),

in that:

● We managed to make our EC colleagues aware of key initiatives at the global level

on data infrastructures and data sharing in the field of food and agriculture, and

comments from the EC representatives confirmed that they appreciated the sharing of

information and agreed that there should be some regular convening mechanism for

these consultations.

● We learned a lot from our EC colleagues about the most recent developments in

terms of their funding agendas and projects relevant to big and open data in

agriculture and food.

At the workshop all the participants agreed on:

● Working together, European community, the BDE partners as those of the other

initiatives present at the workshop, to build a powerful data ecosystem.

● Focusing on how to explain the value of open data and sharing.

● Any technical infrastructure will be developed in the future, within the European

Community, should refer to the European Open Science Cloud Initiative (EOSC).

● The collaboration between the European Community and the BDE partners and those

of other present initiatives has been consolidated.

● The European Community identified in the initiatives present at the workshop

(GODAN, BDE E-ROSA, AgGate) the community of reference (outside of the EC), to

multiply the effects of what is done within the EC.

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2.1.6 Appendices

2.1.6.A Slides & Presentations All presentations are available on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/BDESC2W3

1. CAPS: Hyperconnectivity engaging citizens (Fabrizio Sestini, DG Connect E3)

2. Building a European Data Economy (Saila Rinne, DG Connect)

3. European Open Science Cloud (Wim Haentjens, DG RTD F3)

4. DG AGRI R&I Activities Contributing to the DSM Strategy (Louis Mahy, DG AGRI B2)

5. DATABIO: H2020 Big Data Lighthouse Pilot (Karel Charvat, CCCS)

6. AgGate: The French Agricultural Data Platform (Véronique Bellon Maurel, IRSTEA)

7. eRosa: Infrastructures and Stakeholders (Odile Hologne, INRA)

8. IoF2020 Project: Internet of Food and Farm (Sjaak Wolfert, Coordinator)

9. Catalyzing the creation of a Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and Food (Nikos

Manouselis, AgroKnow)

10. AgriMetrics (Richard Tiffin, University of Reading)

2.1.6.B Photos

Photos are available in the respective workshop folder here.

2.1.6.C Follow-up Post

A follow-up blogpost/message was shared on the BDE website.

2.1.6.D Attendees

The following table is the list of attendees that participated in the workshop:

Name Institution/Company

Saila Rinne DG Connect G.1

Ana Cuadrado Galvan DG AGRI.B.2 - Research and innovation

Corina Buruiana DG Dissemination and Reuse, Publications Office of EU - OP.C.1

Karel Charvat Pilot coordinator in DataBio

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Louis Mahy AGRI.B.2

Sergiu Didicescu EIP-AGRI

Ulrich Adam CEMA aisbl - European Committee of Associations of Manufacturers of Agricultural Machinery

Daniel AZEVEDO Senior Policy Advisor, COPA-COGECA

Sjaak Wolfert Scientific coordinator of the IoF2020 project

Pilar Ocon-Garces DG Connect C.1

Wim Haentjens DG RTD.F3

Hans-Joerg Lutzeyer DG RTD

Fabrizio Sestini Senior Expert, Digital Social Innovation, DG CONNECT

Christopher Brewster TNO

Derek Scuffel Syngenta

Pythagoras Karampiperis Agroknow, coordinator of AGINFRAPLUS

Nikos Manouselis Agroknow

Odile Hologne INRA

Sander Janssen Alterra - Wageningen UR

Johannes Keizer GODAN Secretariat

Valeria Pesce FAO/GFAR

Panagiotis Zervas Agroknow

Richard Tiffins University of Reading / Agrimetrics

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Simon Scerri Fraunhofer IAIS

Ruthie Musker GODAN

Madeleine Huber INRA

2.2 SC6.3 The 3rd BDE SC6 workshop

The third BDE SC6 workshop had the title: “The importance of Metadata & Big Data in OpenScience - where are we and where are we going to”.

The following table includes a summary of the workshop:

Date 11.09.2017

Venue Meervaart Theatre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Invitations Accepted (Registrants) 28

Attendees (Total) 35-40

Attendees (Project Consortium & Project Officer - Replacement)

6

Attendees (Other) 29-34

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Sessions 2

2.2.1 Agenda

◎ 13.00 – 13:30 Registration, Snacks and Coffee

◎ 13:30 – 13:40 Welcome by Big Data Europe, Ivana Versic (Cessda)

◎ 13:30 - 16:00 Session 1: Community Activities

o 13:40 – 14:00 The European Research Data landscape, Peter Doorn (Director of DANS)

o 14.00 – 14:30 European Open Science Agenda: where we are and where we are going to, Ron Dekker (Cessda)

o 14:30 – 15:00 Fernando Reis, Eurostat big data team

o 15.00 – 15:30 Open Discussion (with Speakers Panel): The Importance of Metadata and Big Data in OpenScience / in a Research Infrastructure

◎ 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

◎ 16:00 - 17:00 Session 2: Big Data Europe Project

o 16.00 – 16:45 The Big Data Integrator & the BDE Pilots on top, Aad Versteden (TenForce) & Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)

o 16:45 – 17:00 Outlook Big Data Europe & Fare Well, Ivana Versic (Cessda) and

Martin Kaltenböck (SWC)

2.2.2 Workshop Report

The 3rd workshop in domain of the EU Societal Challenge 6 - Europe in a Changing World: Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies (SC6) was held on 11 September 2017 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was organised by CESSDA ERIC and the Semantic Web Company (SWC), both beneficiaries in the BigDataEurope project, as an official workshop of the SEMANTiCS2017 conference. The workshop description page announced the activity to conference participants.

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Project Coordinator, Soeren Auer, welcomed the participants to the last workshop in the SC6 domain. The BDE team introduced the project, and the role of the host institutions in it (CESSDA, and SWC), given the approaching closing date of the project. Sessions tackled current state of play of Big Data in SC6, with emphasis on wider ecosystem for social sciences and humanities including Open Science Agenda, and the perspective of European official statistics. The BDI Aggregator Platform (Big Data Integrator) and the SC6 Pilot (on budget execution data of municipalities) were also presented.

2.2.2.1 Session 1: Community Activities

Opening session by Peter Doorn (Director of DANS) presented diverse outlook for social sciences and humanities in the European Research Data Landscape: there is a “data hurricane” - flood of information that has to be organised in order to capture value from it. He provided more detailed insight into four “hot” topics: European Open Science Cloud and the pilot project, FAIR principles, alignment of data management plans requirements, and privacy issues (new GDPR and Data Tags).

CESSDA ERIC Director, Ron Dekker, presented European Open Science agenda: where are we and where are we going to. The main idea is that scientific knowledge should be openly shared instead of owned. Science has to open up and be data driven, reproducible, and provide better connection with society. This is the time of platform economies, and value should be captured through the process and creation of interactions between producers and users. There are already many clouds, but mostly in US. Europe is lagging behind; technology is in place, but standards, incentives to share data and reuse it, still have to be defined and widely accepted.

Fernando Reis, representative of the Big Data task force at Eurostat introduced big data in official statistics. Legal study on access to big data for statistics has just finished. It looked to a number of legislative provisions on national and European level (including GDPR), and other relevant legislation. There are not many obstacles for collecting big data by National Statistical Institutes. Statistical legislations doesn’t address big data specifically. There are still some practical obstacles in data collection process (i.e. mobile network metadata has to be deleted after 2 years).

However, many questions remain: possible need for separate legislation on data access, remote access to very large data sources, what comes after big data, are smart statistics solution or next step, etc.

The first part of the workshop was concluded with the panel discussion involving all keynote speakers and the audience. The panel addressed several topics. The first were possibilities of FAIR principles measurement, which are very abstract and not easy to measure. Some of the principles have to be better defined, and in some cases there is a shift from original FAIR definition. FAIR can be connected to different domains at different levels.

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Industry data in Open Science was the next topic. Academia and industry already influence each other; platforms are the way to go; data could be stored, protected, and accessible, while companies would know how data is used. Some private companies have policy on open data, and other are more conservative. It is a question of level. Some data is available, but some has to be closed. That doesn’t prevent DMP to be done describing what will happen to data.

Another connected issues was citability/findability of data - data needs to be referenced to. FAIR itself doesn’t say much about persistence, and combination with Data Seal of Approval is desirable. Datasets have to be preserved in archives or services where they can be properly nurtured. Finally, from user/researcher perspective there should be incentives for re-use of data. Data should be assigned to its producer, and producer/researcher should be rewarded for sharing data.

2.2.2.2 Session 2: BigDataEurope Project

The last part of the workshop was devoted to the current status of BDI platform and SC6 pilot. Aad Versteden of BDE partner TenForce presented the Big Data Integrator (BDI) platform to the interested audience including technologies and components used, advantages of BDI in comparison to other Big Data stacks and finally an outlook on future maintenance and use of the BDI. He furthermore gave an overview of all 7 Pilots (along the 7 H2020 societal challenges / topics) that has been realised in the Big Data Europe project.

Martin Kaltenböck of SWC presented the approach and the objectives as well as the technical solution of the SC6 Pilot that is about budget execution data of several European municipalities. In the Pilot budget (execution) data is harvested in real time from several publishing sources (municipalities) in different formats and is normalised and interlinked in a next step and finally compared and visualised in an analytics dashboard. The system allows to compare dozens of financial ratios between the municipalities. Martin ended with an outlook about the final steps of the Pilot system in the course of the Big Data Europe project.

2.2.3 Appendices

2.2.3.A Slides & Presentations

1. Introduction by CESSDA & SWC

2. The European Research data Landscape – opportunities for CESSDA

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3. European Open Science Agenda – Where are we, and where are we going to?

4. The Big data in Open Science – perspective of European official statistics

5. The Big Data Integrator & BDE Pilots

6. BDI Platform

7. BDE SC6 PILOT

2.2.3.B Photos

Photos are available in the respective workshop Flickr folder.

2.2.3.C Follow-up Post

A follow-up blogpost/message was shared on the BDE website.

2.2.3.D Attendees

The following table is the list of registered attendees for the workshop. Note that attendees marked in boldface were confirmed to be present at the workshop:

Note: Around 10 participants from the co-located SEMANTiCS2017 joined in ad-hoc without registration. This brought several interested people to the SC6 workshop - partly new to the topic, partly with a very high expertise - and this supported to manage a successful and very interactive event.

First Name Last Name Organisation

Ivana Ilijasic Versic CESSDA ERIC

Martin Kaltenboeck Semantic Web Company GmbH

Mariska van der Voort n/a

Rein Murakas University of Tartu, Estonian Social Science

Data Archive (ESSDA)

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John Howard University College Dublin

Priyanka Ojha nki

John Howard University College Dublin

Nadine Rouleaux n/a

Hossein Abroshan CESSDA ERIC

Abdelrahman Abdelrahman Ahmed

Abdelrahman Abdallah Republic of Sudan, Darfur area

Mike Priddy DANS

Sacha Martini n/a

Fredrick Althof n/a

Pauline Coppes n/a

Valia Kordoni Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Nicola Horsley DANS

Alexandra Garatzogianni Fraunhofer

Jean-Baptiste Milon CESSDA ERIC

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Mike Priddy DANS

Fernando Reis European Commission (Eurostat)

Gleb Kanunnikau solution-spark.by

Gregory Labrousse n/a

Sophie Verstrynge n/a

Ron Dekker CESSDA ERIC

Peter Doorn DANS

Louis Petros n/a

Earl Spooner n/a

Sören Auer Fraunhofer

2.3 SC4.3 BigDataEurope and the Societal Challenge on Transport (3rd Workshop)

The following table includes a summary of the workshop:

Date 14.09.2017

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Venue ERTICO - ITS Europe, Avenue Louise 326, Brussels, Belgium

Attendees (Total) 40

Attendees (Project Consortium & Project Officer - Replacement)

5

Attendees (Other) 35

Sessions 3

2.3.1 Agenda

10:00 Welcome and Introduction

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome Maxime Flament, ERTICO-ITS Europe

10:10 – 10:30 Introduction to BigDataEurope and Current State of the Project

Simon Scerri, Fraunhofer IAIS

10:30 – 12:00 Morning session

Speeches on the topic:

How is big data transforming the

transport sector?

Maria Rautavirta, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications (Senior Engineer and Deputy Head of Unit of the Data Business Unit at the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications)

Rodrigo Castineira, INDRA (The Transforming Transport Project – Mobility meets big data)

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Arnaud Burgess / Maria Rodrigues, Panteia (LEMO project - Leveraging Big Data to Manage Transport Operations)

Victor Corral, ATOS (AutoMat project - Automotive Big Data Marketplace for Innovative Cross-sectorial Vehicle Data Services)

Luigi Selmi / Simon Scerri, Fraunhofer IAIS

(BigDataEurope project insights into big

data in transport)

12:00 – 12:15 Coffee Break

12:15 – 13:15 Pilot Demonstration of the Big Data Integrator Platform

12:15 – 12:30 BigDataEurope mobility use case in

Thessaloniki: Algorithms Josep Maria Salanova, CERTH

12:30 – 13:15 Demonstration of the Big Data

Integrator Platform

Josep Maria Salanova, CERTH

Luigi Selmi, Fraunhofer IAIS

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:30 Afternoon Interactive Session

14:00 – 15:10 Discussion: Big Data for Transport

Users and Additional Societal Needs

Moderated by Maxime Flament, ERTICO – ITS

Europe

15:10 – 16:20 Discussion: Technical Requirements

and Additional Transport Use Cases

Moderated by Josep Maria Salanova, CERTH,

and Luigi Selmi, Fraunhofer IAIS

16:20 – 16:30 Summary and Closing Note Maxime Flament, ERTICO – ITS Europe

2.3.2 Background

BigDataEurope is an EU funded project, which started in 2015 and will culminate at the end of 2017. BigDataEurope has developed and provides an integrated stack of tools to manipulate, publish and use large-scale data resources. These tools are freely accessible to all, including those with minimal knowledge of the technologies involved, and have already been installed in customised data processing chains. The Big Data Integrator Platform is a key outcome of

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the Big Data Europe project. It is an ecosystem of specifications and reference implementations that are attractive to both current players and newcomers from all parts of the data value chain.

At the core of the BigDataEurope project are seven societal challenges or focus areas – health, food, energy, transport, climate, social sciences, and security. Transport is societal challenge 4 (SC4) and contributes to smarter, safer, and cleaner transport, using beyond-state-of-the-art data solutions and giving rise to a European leadership for new mobility services.

2.3.3 Objectives

This was the third, and final, workshop of the BigDataEurope societal challenge on transport. The first workshop focused on defining key user needs and requirements and the second workshop presented the BigDataEurope platform as applied to the transport pilot site in Thessaloniki. Since then, the platform has been refined and the third workshop aimed to show the added value that the BigDataEurope platform can bring to the transport sector. This workshop also sought to collect feedback from participants on how the BigDataEurope platform can be extended and improved to facilitate further applications. The workshop also featured a series of speeches discussing the transformation that big data is bringing to the transport industry and presenting some of the current EU funded projects working with transport and big data.

2.3.3.1 Morning Session: Presentations on MaaS and EU Funded Projects

Maxime Flament (ERTICO – ITS Europe) opened the workshop, welcoming the participants and providing an introduction to the agenda. He explained that data is quickly becoming a game changer in the world of transport and it is becoming increasingly important to have access to the right data at the right place and at the right time. When the BigDataEurope project was launched three years ago, integrating big data in transport in general was a novel idea. Some initiatives had been carried out in the logistics sector, but little was done in transport overall. This has quickly changed and now there are several projects running at the same time that work on different aspects of big data use in transport.

BigDataEurope project coordinator Simon Scerri (Fraunhofer IAIS) then provided an insight into the current state of BigDataEurope. The project has entered its last stretch and will end in December 2017. However, the intention is to keep the platform that BigDataEurope has developed running after the official end of the project. The project has been recognised by the Big Data Value Association and there are currently talks going on to present the BigDataEurope architecture and reference model to them. According to Simon, the objective of this workshop was to show what BigDataEurope has achieved, but also, and more

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importantly, to keep the discussions within the community alive and to learn from each other’s experience.

Then, delving into the session of speeches on how big data in changing transport, Maria Rautavirta (Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications) presented the Finnish perspective on using big data to advance the transport sector. She explained that in Finland all aspects of communications and transport, including privacy, security, and infrastructure have been gathered under the responsibility of one ministry. This is perhaps why Finland has been so successful in finding solutions to the integration of big data in transport. Finland has also opened up all the administrative data sets. That is to say that all openly available data is now openly available in Finland, including transport and weather related data. The Finnish government has obliged service providers to share information through the Act on Transport Services, which will fully come into effect as of 1st January 2018. The Finnish government now intends to work on reviewing the transport system as a whole, making market access easier and promoting interoperability. Speaking more generally, Maria Rautavirta emphasized the need for data to be high quality and accessible in a timely manner. Moreover, data must be in a usable format, since, if it is not, then any efforts in achieving multi-modality are hugely hampered.

Next, Rodrigo Castineira (INDRA) introduced the Transforming Transport project, which was launched in January 2017 and is focused on the logistics domain. The project covers seven domains – highways, airports, ports, rail, vehicles, urban mobility, and supply networks – and aims to show that big data has potential to bring added value to each of these sectors. Similarly to BigDataEurope, Transforming Transport also aims to develop a solution that would be usable beyond the end of the project. So far the project has been working on problem understanding and validation of key solution ideas. It will then move on to large-scale experiments and trials in the field, which will involve end users. The Transforming Transport consortium has identified 160 data sources, of which, interestingly, only 2% have an amount of personal data. This goes to show that data can still be effectively utilised without raising concerns about data privacy and security.

The AutoMat project was introduced next. Victor Corral (ATOS) explained that the objective of AutoMat is to create an open ecosystem for providing manufacturer-independent data to cross-sectorial service providers. The AutoMat “Vehicle Big Data Marketplace” will thus provide a single point of data access for different service providers. The vision of the AutoMat project is that accessing data in this way will enable new and innovative business ideas for many stakeholders. The project has already worked on creating standardised and open interfaces that would allow for unconstrained data access and has gathered over 120,000 data packages in the Marketplace, thanks to the broad range of OEMs participating in the project. AutoMat has also addressed issues related to user acceptance by providing incentives to vehicle owners who share their data and by ensuring that the vehicle owner has full control over which data is provided to which service provider.

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Last but not least, Arnaud Burgess (Panteia) provided an insight into the new LEMO project, which has been funded under the last Horizon 2020 call and will start in November 2017. The objective of the LEMO project is to produce a research and policy roadmap towards data openness, collection, exploitation and data sharing that would support EU transport stakeholders in addressing technical issues, as well as concerns related to legitimacy, data privacy, and security. The roadmap will outline a series of incremental steps needed to support decision makers in addressing current barriers and challenges in evidence-based decision-making. The LEMO consortium will, in particular, address five transport dimensions - mode, sector, technology, policy, and evaluation – and also conduct a series of case studies, which will involve organisations that actively use big data for specific purposes. The case studies will help LEMO understand the strategies and actions taken by these organisations to leverage big data and identify the merits and demerits.

2.3.3.2 BigDataEurope Session: Pilot Demonstration of the Big Data Integrator Platform

In the second part of the morning session, Luigi Selmi (Fraunhofer IAIS) and Josep Maria

Salanova (CERTH) presented the Big Data Integrator Platform. Luigi first explained the

architecture of the platform, which uses Apache Kafka for messaging, Apache Flink for data

processing, and PostGis and Elasticsearch for storage and licensing. This technological set-

up has enabled the transport societal challenge of BigDataEurope to achieve its objective of

creating a scalable, fault-tolerant and flexible platform based on open source frameworks that

can process unbounded data sets. Luigi also mentioned that the transport pilot is able to

process real-time FCD data for map-matching and classify a road segment according to the

traffic level.

Josep Maria then provided a practical insight into the BigDataEurope transport pilot in

Thessaloniki. The pilot uses multi-source data sets (including speed, traffic flow, and travel

time) in order to provide a short-term prediction of traffic status, which is based on mobility and

traffic pattern recognition. A fleet of 1,200 taxis is used in Thessaloniki for estimating traffic

status on the road network. On average 400 vehicles circulate continuously and send speed

and location every 6-10 seconds, which are used for estimating traffic status in real time. The

model used for predicting the traffic status is refined through machine learning techniques,

which help achieve an efficient and robust prediction with an average error of 5-6 km/h. A 10-

fold cross-validation is used to select the appropriate model to predict the traffic speed for a

given time. A series of models are tested and the one that provides the lowest average error

is used in the BigDataEurope platform.

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2.3.3.3 Afternoon Session: Lively Discussions on the Take-Up of Project Results

The afternoon session, moderated by Maxime Flament (ERTICO – ITS Europe), started with the question of how to achieve better take-up of project results. From the morning session and the projects presented, it was clear that there is a lack of cooperation amongst the projects and that, although BigDataEurope did a lot of work to attract interest to the Big Data Integrator Platform, it has not been implemented as widely as could have been hoped.

Participants remarked that a first starting point could be to promote the project in countries which are not part of the consortium and are not directly involved in the project. It is also important to organise different events and educate the audiences. Hackathons with educational sessions were mentioned as one example of what could be done. It is also important to focus on the audience that is invited to an event. Currently, there is most often a vertical focus with events for specific stakeholder groups, but it would be important to bring together people with similar concerns, regardless of background. In addition, project consortiums should look for existing solutions and other projects or entities that could be interested in cooperating. These could include universities and research institutes which are often interested in trying new solutions and technologies that projects are developing. Moreover, it is important to identify the problem owner, that is, who has the problem, and what kind of tools are there to provide a solution and how this solution can be improved. Improving the existing solution can then become the foundation for a new EU funded project.

It is important to involve decision makers in the projects as well, for example, by organising special educational sessions and other events. Moreover, decision makers should be made aware of the existing solutions that exist in other countries and that could be implemented in their countries. As discussed in the morning session of the workshop, there are many lessons that can be learned from Finland regarding how data can be made open and how people can be incentivised to share data. It was also mentioned that Austria, which is looking to integrate different transport modes in one platform, can be taken as an example of a good practice.

Workshop participants then raised some questions regarding the future of the BigDataEurope project. First and foremost, participants were interested in what will happen after the end of the project – will there be a report on the lessons learned and best practices identified throughout the course of the project, and what will happen with the Big Data Integrator Platform. According to project coordinator Simon Scerri (Fraunhofer IAIS), even after the end of the project, the project website will continue to host the project’s public deliverables, which will shed some more light on the work that has been done. The plan is also to have similar workshops at least annually for the next two years after the end of the project. These workshops would also discuss questions participants have about the use of the BigDataEurope platform. In the meantime, for any issues regarding the implementation of the platform, anyone interested can turn to GitHub, where a self-sustaining community has already been established and can try to resolve questions regarding the BigDataEurope platform.

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2.3.4 Conclusions

The workshop showed that there is a clear need to create a larger community and keep the discussions within the community alive. The workshop was a success since it enabled participants to showcase their projects and initiatives, explain the vision and objectives of their work, and liaise with like-minded individuals and organisations. Although the afternoon sessions deviated from the agenda and, instead of looking at user needs and requirements, focused on brainstorming good ways to promote projects and their results, it delivered much useful feedback, which will be taken up in the BigDataEurope consortium.

2.3.5 Appendices

2.3.5.A Slides & Presentations

1. Simon Scerri (Fraunhofer IAIS) – BigDataEurope Project 2. Maria Rautavirta (Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications) – Data Fuelling

the Disruption of Mobility 3. Rodrigo Castineira (INDRA) – Transforming Transport Project 4. Victor Corral (ATOS) – AutoMat Project 5. Arnaud Burgess (Panteia) – LEMO Project 6. Luigi Selmi (Fraunhofer IAIS) – Pilot SC4 7. Josep Maria Salanova (CERTH) – BigDataEurope Use Case in Thessaloniki 8. Luigi Selmi (Fraunhofer IAIS) and Josep Maria Salanova (CERTH) – Demonstration of

the Big Data Integrator Platform – Front end services

2.3.5.B Photos

Photos are available in the respective workshop folder here.

2.3.5.C Follow-up Post

A follow-up blogpost/message was shared on the BDE website.

2.3.5.D Transcript of Notes from Afternoon Discussion Session

Sheet 1 - What are big challenges that BDE can solve? - Technology roadmap

o Illustrate with examples + what does it do o Show benefits o Dare to show what is not working o Showcase portal

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- New projects - Who is the problem owner?

o Who will take it up and do something further - EU BDV Conference December 2017 - BDVA – ERTICO Activity Group on Mobility - Other standards / organisations

o Datex II o MaaS Alliance

- Migration issues o Not always feasible

Sheet 2 - Vertical focus? – Bring people with the same concerns together - Promote to:

o Member States o ITS o Promotion activities after project results

- Lack of skills – training - Educate – build up skills

o Decision makers - How to make it easy to understand

o Why open data? o Why interoperable data?

- Hackathon o Data pitch – open call to SME research o Global transport hackathon o SLUSH Helsinki – 23 November – 1 December

- Bring together o Similar concerns o Traffic management o Logistics o MaaS

- Encourage – pilots to bring awareness to transport operations o Simulations

Sheet 3

- NAP (national access points) - Finland

o Data is coming from service providers o Move away from central data -> distributed

- Austria o Traffic info Austria (VAD)

- GIT o Community

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o Support o Map core contributors o Pay active moderators?

- Data sources

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2.3.5.E Attendees

The workshop was attended by 40 participants, including representatives of industry, research institutes, as well as the European Commission and different public administrations. This diverse background of the participants helped facilitate lively debates in the afternoon session, where participants were able to voice their opinions and discuss and learn from each other. After the workshop, participants remarked that the workshop had provided an excellent opportunity for networking by gathering people from different backgrounds, but all of which work with big data and transport.

The following table is the list of registered attendees for the workshop. Note that attendees marked in boldface were confirmed to be present at the workshop:

First Name Last Name Institution/Company

Last Name First Name Company

Anckaert Ivan Freelance

Bajnóczi Mihály Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU

Bourdy Emilien University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Burgess Arnaud Panteia

Carlsson Anders Volvo Technology

Castineira Gonzalez

Rodrigo INDRA

Corral Franco Victor Javier ATOS

Dananchy Luc AKKA BELGIUM

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Deltour Anne European Commission

Drees Holger BASt

Faria Pedro AKKA

Flament Maxime ERTICO - ITS Europe

Frigne Dirk Geosparc

Furno Angelo IFSTTAR/ENTPE LICIT

Grillo Patrizio EC - DG MOVE - B4

Hayden Niall Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Herrera Lotero Javier n/a

Hintenaus Dieter ASFINAG

Hochguertel Holger INRIX Europe GmbH

Johansson Claes Volvo Group Trucks Technology

Karjalainen Piia ERTICO / MaaS Alliance

Kerschot Hugo IS-practice

Kindler Holger DIHK e.V.

Kulikova Yulia inmarsat

Liu Danjing IBM

Madsen Signe Central Denmark EU office

Mezdreija Zane ERTICO - ITS Europe

Panozzo Niccolò European Cyclists' Federation

Papapanagiotou Eftychios Technical University of Munich

Raes Lieven Informatie Vlaanderen

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Rautavirta Maria Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications

Rodrigues Maria Panteia

Salanova Josep Maria CERTH

Scerri Simon Fraunhofer IAIS

Selmi Luigi Fraunhofer IAIS

Simon Emile Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology (LIST)

Springer Benedikt KoWi - EU Liasion Office of the German Research Organisations

Szenci Ildiko Antall József Knowledge Centre

Tiago Ricardo IMT - Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes

van den Hoek Jaap INRIX gmbH

2.4 SC7.3 Big Data in Secure Societies (Third Workshop)

The following table includes a summary of the workshop:

Date 03.10.2017

Venue Brussels, Belgium

Attendees (Total) 40

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Attendees (Project Consortium & Project Officer - Replacement)

5

Attendees (Other) 35

Sessions 2

2.4.1 Agenda

◎ 09.30 - 10.30: Registration and Coffee ◎ 10:30 - 12:40: Morning Session

o 10.30 – 10.40: Welcome and Workshop presentation (Michele Lazzarini (RTDI PO) o/b Sergio Albani, RTDI Unit Manager, EU SatCen)

o 10.40 – 11.00: Big Data Value -Big Data and SC7 (Kimmo Rossi, Head of Sector Big Data R&I, EC CNECT.G3)

o 11.00 – 11.20: Big Data and Secure Societies (Pascal Legai, Director, EU SatCen)

o 11.20 – 11.40: Big Data Challenges in Building a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (Barbara Ryan, Secretariat Director, GEO)

o 11.40 – 12.00: Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) (Martina Sindelar, Policy Officer, EC GROW.I3)

o 12.00 – 12.20: Space-based applications and Big Data (Rita Rinaldo, Head of Institutional Projects Section, European Space Agency – TIA)

o 12.20 – 12.40: Big Data initiatives in the Space & Security domain (Michele Lazzarini (RTDI PO) o/b Sergio Albani, RTDI Unit Manager, EU SatCen)

◎ 12.40 – 14.20: Lunch ◎ 14:20 - 16:00: Afternoon Session

o 14.20 – 14.40: Big Data in Secure societies: contribution of the EO industry (Emmanuel Pajot, Senior Project Manager, EARSC)

o 14.40 – 15.00: Enhancing cyber defence of cyber space systems (Nineta Polemi, Programme Manager, EC CNECT.H1)

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o 15.00 – 15.20: BigDataEurope project (Simon Scerri, BDE Deputy Project Coordinator, Fraunhofer IAIS)

o 15.20 – 15.40: The BDE pilot for Secure Societies (Manolis Koubarakis, Professor, University of Athens)

o 15.40 – 15.50: Q&A (Manolis Koubarakis, Professor, University of Athens) o 15.50 – 16.00: Closing Note and Farewell (Pascal Legai, Director, EU

SatCen) ◎ 16.00: End of workshop

2.4.2 Aims and Objectives

The 3rd workshop on Big Data in Secure Societies, organised by the European Union Satellite Centre (EU SatCen) in the framework of the BigDataEurope project, was held in Brussels on the 3rd of October 2017.

2.4.2.1 Workshop aims

The objective of the workshop was to provide key stakeholders and users from a variety of domains in Secure Societies (such as Space & Security and Cybersecurity) with the relevant trends on Big Data and other technologies/techniques such as Machine Learning.

Through dedicated sessions on specific topics involving major experts from the BigDataEurope project and from key domains in Secure Societies, the workshop aimed to:

• go into current and future Big Data needs and challenges in Secure Societies;

• contribute to the building of a community sharing Big Data requirements and strategies;

• discuss real user scenarios and use cases;

• present the outcomes of the BigDataEurope project and in particular of the pilot for Secure Societies;

• define the way forward to add value to current services and to implement new solutions in the Space and Security domain.

2.4.2.2. Workshop general information

The workshop was organised by the EU SatCen at the Spanish Office for Science and Technology in Brussels on 3rd of October 2017.

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The workshop was divided in morning and afternoon sessions with key speakers from EU SatCen, EC, GEO, ESA, EARSC and BDE project partners. The afternoon talks ended with an interactive Questions and Answers session, before the closure remarks.

The workshop had a 57% turnout, with 70 registered participants and an actual number of 40 attendees coming from CDTI, EARSC, EC (DG CNECT and DG GROW), ESA, Frontex, GEO and a number of stakeholders, data users, service providers, private companies and other entities from a variety of domains in Secure Societies.

Organisation types were represented as follows: 37.5% EU/EC entities, 32.5% Industry (including SMEs), 15.0% University, 7.5 % Public Authorities and Research institutes and 7.5%, International organizations.

Working sectors were represented as follows: 42.5% Data and Technology, 30.0% Space and Security, 7.5% Cybersecurity, 7.5% Smart Cities and 12.5% other sectors (e.g. Fight against crime, Resilience against disasters, Protection of critical infrastructures, Border Security or Support to EU external policies).

2.4.3 Morning Session

The welcome to the participants was given by Michele Lazzarini, RTDI Project Officer at EU SatCen (on behalf of Sergio Albani, RTDI Unit Manager at EU SatCen).

The presentation illustrated the objectives of the workshop, also recalling the previous editions (the “1st workshop on “Big Data in Secure Societies” and the “2nd workshop on “Big Data in Secure Societies”, both held in Brussels the 30th of September 2015 and the 18th of October 2016 respectively).

The workshop continued with the presentation of Kimmo Rossi, Head of Sector Big Data R&I in the European Commission (DG CNECT.G3). The importance of Big Data for Europe was emphasized, showing the EU policy context for Big Data and the enormous possibility of the European economy growth based on it. The Big Data Public Private Partnership and several ICT calls were illustrated as initiatives fostering this growth based on EU guidelines.

The second presentation was given by Pascal Legai, EU SatCen Director. The presentation showed the structure, mission and activities of the EU SatCen, focusing on the Big Data challenges in the Space and Security domain. In particular, it was presented how Big Data activities can complete the SatCen workflow, from collection of requirements to user services. Furthermore, some R&I activities of the Centre were presented, showing the alignment with the European guidelines and the H2020 Secure Societies Societal Challenge.

The following speaker was Barbara Ryan, Secretariat Director of GEO. A general introduction to the GEO priorities, societal beneficial areas, members and participating organisations was

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shown. The GEOSS (Global EO System of Systems) Common Infrastructure was presented and the importance of open data and data sharing was stressed, with a focused example on the Australian Data Cube. The presentation concluded with a review of the Sustainable Development Goals, where the role of the Space & Security domain was emphasized.

Martina Sindelar, Policy Officer of European Commission DG GROW.I3, was the following speakers. The presentation started with a review of the Big Data Challenge in the context of Earth Observation, stressing the importance of interoperability and cross-fertilization, leading to the development of the Copernicus DIAS (Data Access and Information Services). The concept, architecture and ecosystem of the DIAS were illustrated, and particular emphasis was given to the importance of mechanisms such as H2020 and ESA/EUMETSAT programs in the development of the DIAS.

The session continued with the presentation of Rita Rinaldo, Head of Institutional Projects Section at ESA-TIA. The presentation began with the overview of the ARTES programme, explaining its funding scheme for space-based downstream applications. The second part illustrated four ESA IAP Invitations to Tender related to Space and Security as well as the EU SatCen involvement in the first three: “Big data applications to boost preparedness and response to migration”, “High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (HAPS) applications”, “Big Data for monitoring and protection of critical infrastructure” and “Big Data for Safety of Transport”.

The morning session ended with Michele Lazzarini (on behalf of Sergio Albani) from EU SatCen. After having described the SatCen Big Data initiatives in the Space and Security domain, the presentation moved on the different activities of the Research, Technology Development and Innovation (RTDI) Unit; the RTDI activities, focusing on Big Data and Machine Learning based solutions, aim at maintaining at the state-of-the-art the EU SatCen capabilities (e.g. by the development of a platform for management and exploitation of Big Geospatial Data). Cooperation activities with key stakeholders (e.g. EC, ESA and GEO) were presented as well as the H2020 R&I projects were SatCen is participating.

2.4.4 Afternoon Session

The afternoon session started with Emmanuel Pajot, Project Manager of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC). After introducing EARSC structure, network and vision and the European Remote Sensing industry scenario, the presentation moved to some successful cases on the application of Remote Sensing technologies for security applications (e.g. illegal landfill sites detection, infrastructure stability, winter navigation and border security).

The second afternoon presentation was given by Nineta Polemi, Programme Manager of EC (DG CNECT.H1). The presentation described the major cybersecurity threats in space (e. g. with regard to satellites, infrastructures and space software); to deal with these threats, specific

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security management mechanisms should be implemented. The EU defined several cyber security directives and standards, with a specific agency (ENISA) dedicated to the cybersecurity domain.

The following presentation was provided by Simon Scerri, BigDataEurope Project Coordinator at Fraunhofer IAIS. A general recap of the BigDataEurope project was given, highlighting the community building activities (e.g. workshop series) and the technological achievements on the seven Societal Challenges. The presentation ended announcing the final release of the BigDataEurope platform in November 2017 and some possible way forward after the end of the project.

The last presentation was given by Manolis Koubarakis, professor at the University of Athens. The updated BigDataEurope Secure Societies pilot was presented, giving particular attention on how the pilot is addressing the Secure Societies community requirements with the integration of data coming from remote sensing and social sensing for detecting changes on the Earth surface. The presentation ended with a live demo of the pilot.

After the last talk, a Q&A session gave the audience the possibility to give feedback on the Secure Societies pilot.

The workshop outcome was summarized by Pascal Legai, who highlighted the success of the event, how Big Data can help to address the Secure Societies Societal Challenge and the importance of cooperation between key stakeholders in the Space and Security domain. To conclude, sincere thanks were extended to the organization, the speakers and the participants.

2.4.5 Appendices

2.4.5.A Slides & Presentations

1. Welcome and Workshop presentation (Michele Lazzarini, RTDI PO, o/b Sergio Albani, RTDI Unit Manager, EU SatCen)

2. Big Data Value -Big Data and SC7 (Kimmo Rossi, Head of Sector Big Data R&I, EC CNECT.G3)

3. Big Data and Secure Societies (Pascal Legai, Director, EU SatCen) 4. Big Data Challenges in Building a Global Earth Observation System of Systems

(Barbara Ryan, Secretariat Director, GEO) 5. Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) (Martina Sindelar, Policy

Officer, EC GROW.I3) 6. Space-based applications and Big Data (Rita Rinaldo, Head of Institutional Projects

Section, European Space Agency – TIA 7. Big Data initiatives in the Space & Security domain (Michele Lazzarini, RTDI PO, o/b

Sergio Albani, RTDI Unit Manager, EU SatCen)

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8. Big Data in Secure societies: contribution of the EO industry (Emmanuel Pajot, Senior Project Manager, EARSC)

9. Enhancing cyber defence of cyber space systems (Nineta Polemi, Programme Manager, EC CNECT.H1)

10. BigDataEurope project (Simon Scerri, BDE Deputy Project Coordinator, Fraunhofer IAIS)

11. The BDE pilot for Secure Societies (Manolis Koubarakis, Professor, University of Athens)

2.4.5.B Photos

Photos are available in the respective workshop folder here.

2.4.5.C Follow-up Post

A follow-up blogpost/message was shared on the BDE website.

2.4.5.D Attendees

The following figure shows the distribution of the participants.

Figure 1. Participants’ representation grouped by Organization (left) and by Working Sectors (right).

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Organisation Type: 1. Industry (including SMEs); 2. University; 3. Public authorities and Research Institutes; 4. EU/EC entity; 5. International organisations.

Main Sector:

1. Space & Security; 2. Smart Cities; 3. Cybersecurity; 4. Data & Technology; 5. Other (e.g. Resilience against disasters, Protection of critical infrastructures, Border

Security or Support to EU external policies).

The following table is the list of workshop participants:

Name Company Org.

Sector

Position

Stefano Bonfa

OxSDE (Oxford sustainable development enterprise)

1 4 CEO

Michela Corvino e-GEOS

1 1 Project Manager

Bart De Lathouwer OGC

5 4 Director, Innovation Program

Martin de Maupeou CES

1 1 Consultant

Ana Garcia Robles BDVA

4 2 Secretary General

Monika Goergen

KoWi - Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations

1 3, 4 Advisor for ICT and Cybersecurity

Jose Gomez Comunidad de Madrid

3 4 Consultant

Marcus Jest Copenhagen EU Office

2 2 Intern

Rob Kloots TrustingtheCloud

1 5 Owner

Manolis Koubarakis University of Athens

2 4 Professor

Nafiseh Caterpillar 1 4 IT Analyst

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Lashkari

Michele Lazzarini

European Union Satellite Centre

4 1 Project Officer

Pascal Legai

European Union Satellite Centre

4 1 Director

Benjamín Martínez Sanchis

Comunidad de Madrid Brussels Office

2 4 Research and Policy Officer

Christina Menking Airbus

1 5 EU Policy Analyst

Filipe Paisana FRONTEX

4 5 GIS Analyst

Emmanuel Pajot EARSC

5 1 Senior Project Manager

Stefan Pauwels Luciad NV

1 4 Sales Director

Amarílis Pêgo Several

4 5 Translator/Web developer

Raoul Penneman 1Spatial

1 4 Business Development Manager

Raúl Perea Siller Freelance

3 3 Freelance

Nineta Polemi European Commission

4 3 Programme Manager

Anca Popescu

European Union Satellite Centre

4 1 Project Officer

Rita Rinaldo ESA

4 1 Head of Institutional Projects

Kimmo Rossi European Commission

4 1 Head of Research & Innovation Sector

Patrick Rudloff Airbus

1 1 Head of EU/NATO Affairs for Defence & Space

Barbara Ryan

GEO, Group on Earth Observations

5 4 GEO Secretariat Director

Simon Scerri Fraunhofer IAIS

2 4 BDE Deputy Project Coordinator

Benjamin Schreiber MC2 ASBL

1 1 Director

Juan Luis Valero

European Union Satellite Centre

4 1 Head of Brussels Office

Antonio San Jose

INDRA 1 4 Earth Observation Expert

Lea Copenhagen EU Office 2 2 Data Scientist

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Stoustrup Brandt

Bernard Valentin

Space Application Services 4 4 Earth Observation Systems Team Lead

Polydoros Demetriades

European Commission 4 5 Principal Administrator

Emmanouil Thanos

KU Leuven 2 4 PhD student

Martina Sindelar

European Commission 4 4 Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Saida Mondragon

IK4-Tekniker 3 4 Program Responsible

Amelia Alvarez

Schneider Electric 1 4 R&D Project Technical Manager

Ben Engelen

EU SatCen 4 1 Retired

Emanuele Barreca

European Commission 4 1 Policy Assistant

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3. Summary

The reports provided in this deliverable cover the related BDE WP2 workshop taking place between M25 and M33 (4). These reports supplement the reports of the 1st and 2nd series of workshops covered in the first 4 deliverable in this series (D2.2 Report on Interest Groups Workshop I, D2.5 Report on Interest Groups Workshop II, D2.6 Report on Interest Groups Workshop III and D2.7 Report on Interest Groups Workshop IV). A final workshop report will be submitted by M36 and cover the last 3 workshops.