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To support and advance medical research, Fundación 29 and LaLiga, in collaboration with Microsoft, have published several open datasets including anonymised results of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and antibody tests of the players and staff of LaLiga clubs, the professional football division of the Spanish league. By publishing these data, LaLiga aims to improve prevention mechanisms in a medical challenge such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In such a situation it is vital that organisations collaborate to collect data and make it available to the community. The dataset can be used for research

In April this year, the EU Open Data Portal and the European Data Portal consolidated into one service providing access to European data under the name of  data.europa.eu. This portal, brought to you by the  Publications Office of the European Union, provides access to public data resources from EU institutions and agencies, EU Member States, and other European countries. Currently, you can find over 1 million datasets, from 36 countries, along 13 thematic categories on data.europa.eu. If you are a data scientist or developer, the portal can help you:  find data to build and develop innovative

At the 2019 EU Datathon, Gregory Ruessmann presented ‘Euromaps’, a prototype app to turn open data into maps that visualise complex topics such as climate change or international trade in such a way as to make the stories hidden within the data obvious for anyone to see. ‘Euromaps’ made it to the finals of the competition and won the 2nd prize. After integration of initial feedback and fully automating the service, the team has taken the project to the next level. Under the new name ‘ Alphamaps’, they are launching a full-scale universal data mapping application that turns EU open data into

On June 11-13, the 2021 G7 summit took place, with the overarching theme of “Building Back Better” from the pandemic. The G7 leaders discussed a wide range of pressing topics, including COVID-19, pandemic preparedness and economic recovery, evolving future frontiers in the global economy and society, fighting climate change, and protecting the environment. Regarding the topic of future frontiers, there will be a focus on championing data free-flow with trust. In other words, better leveraging the potential of valuable data-driven technologies while continuing to address data protection

The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) offers the CORDIS Datalab, providing new ways to explore the CORDIS open data. The visualisation shows which private and public organisations participate in Horizon 2020 research and innovation projects, where they are located and who they collaborate with. You can search for any organisation, all over the world, that participates in one of the projects. Discover also the “Hot Spots”-layer, a heat map that reflects the density of organisations on the map. A word on CORDIS: the website shows results from projects funded by

Ukraine is a trend-setter when it comes to opening up finance data in Europe. As one of the fast-trackers of the Open Data Maturity assessment of 2020, the country has shown substantial progress in publishing finance data on the online platform E-data. This platform is in fact a collection of three portals: Spending: a dataset of all transactions from the State Treasury; OpenBudget: a knowledge base containing budgets of local administrations; ProIFIs: an information hub for social and investment projects financed with government loans. These portals not only increase accessibility and

In the news piece on 9 June, we informed you about the Vaccine Tracker developed by the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC). This EU agency has now also published a dashboard tracking the SARS-CoV-2 variants currently found in the EU and EEA (European Economic Area) countries. The dashboard shows the proportion of variants of concern and of interest, namely the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), Brazil (P.1) and India (B.1.617.1, B.1.617.2, B.1.617.3) variants, and their sequencing volumes. The data is obtained from the European Surveillance System (TESSy) and the GISAID

On 29 June, Women in Digital Empowerment (WIDE) wrap up the Erasmus+ Project on Open Data “Public Makers” with a live event. WIDE is a non-profit organisation from Luxembourg, offering practical support and hosting activities to empower women to seize opportunities in the digital economy, and building more diversity in the digital workforce, and IT pipeline. Do you want to understand how open data can be used to empower people to create societal change? Then this is a great opportunity for you. You will learn more about open data, discover use cases, and meet the different stakeholders in this

On 18 June, Rob Fry – Head of data visualisation at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK – shared his insights on data visualisation in the EU DataViz webinar: “ Help – I’m locked in spreadsheets & PDFs, let me out”. In the webinar, he explains how the ONS has helped unlock data by making UK statistics more visual. Their multi-disciplinary team is made up of data visualisation specialists, data journalists, graphic designers, and social media specialists, working to create reliable and accurate national statistics on a variety of topics. The webinar covered the journey of the ONS

CONNECT University is the flagship knowledge-sharing project of the European Commission’s Directorate General on Communication Networks, Content and Technologies (DG CONNECT). The initiative presents innovative technologies, closely connected with EU policies, to the general public and showcases the latest digital trends and developments. The aim of the project is to foster inspiration, identify opportunities and threats, and to enable cooperation between the EU institutions, industry, academia, and international organisations. This year, CONNECT University is organising the sixth edition of