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On 17 May, the Publications Office of the EU hosted their fourth webinar in the EU Datathon 2021 series. Andre Berends and Petar Parushev presented the Safety Gate data that can be used for all challenges of the EU Datathon 2021. Safety Gate is the European rapid alert system for non-food products that pose a risk to the health and safety of consumers. Unsafe products are identified by the European Commission Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs) which creates alerts on the Safety Gate portal. These alerts are also sent to the OECD Global Recalls portal and data.europa.eu. Consumers are in

On 14 May, the EU Datathon 2021 hosted their third webinar featuring Eugeniu Costechi who presented the Euro-COVID19 dataset for Natural Language Processing (NLP). This dataset can be used for tackling all challenges of the EU Datathon. Eugeniu talked about the SemCovid project, funded by the Publications Office of the European Union. The project publicly provides the open-source code and the data to establish a semantic mapping of the EU and its Member States in responding to the pandemic. In doing so, the project aims to answer: “How do the COVID-19 measures compare between Member States and

On 12 May, the EU Datathon 2021 hosted their second webinar. Per Nymand-Andersen from the European Central Bank presented this dataset, which addresses challenge 2: ‘An economy that works for the people’. The EU Datathon is an annual open data competition open to data enthusiasts worldwide. To enter the competition, participants are invited to send ideas for applications that use open datasets and address one of three thematic challenges, aligned with the priorities of the European Commission. Challenge 2: ‘An economy that works for the people’ The EU’s unique social market economy enables

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture (DG EAC) and the Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) have opened the call for applications for the expert group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data in education and training. AI is one of the key technologies of the 21st century and has been a basis for discussion related to the economy and society, including the field of education. AI has enormous potential in the field of education, for instance through intelligent tutoring systems

On 14 April, ASEDIE presented the 9th edition of its report on the Spanish infomediary sector in collaboration with the Spanish National Statistics Institute. ASEDIE is a multisectoral information association that brings together infomediary companies from different sectors to publish data and promote its use and re-use to create value-adding products. This report is part of an annual series running since 2013 and aims to demonstrate the size of the Spanish infomediary sector by analysing public sector data collected through various administrations from the previous 2 years. Thus, the edition

On 6 May, the EU Datathon 2021 hosted their first webinar on the Natura 2000 dataset. The dataset was presented by Brian Mac Sharry from the European Environment Agency and can be used for Challenge 1: “A European Green Deal”. The EU Datathon is an annual open data competition open to data enthusiasts worldwide. To enter the competition, participants are invited to send ideas for applications that use open datasets and address one of three thematic challenges, aligned with the priorities of the European Commission. Selected teams will have 19 weeks to turn their ideas into functional apps and

Agriculture is one of the main sectors of economic activity in the Northern Basque Country of France. The Basque Country Agglomeration Community wants to preserve the agricultural quality of the region by preventing deterioration caused by erosion and demographic factors, such as ageing of farm managers. As a result, the Northern Basque municipal community launched the open data portal ZABAL in 2021, which provides open agricultural data from France and can be used to increase the transparency of public action, to encourage innovation, and to contribute to the digital economic development of

From 10 to 12 May, the Data4Good festival invites charities, social enterprises, public sector bodies, funders, and support organisations to share their data stories. The flagship event presents social sector organisations that use data to deliver greater impact, and showcases how these organisations use data to design more effective and efficient products and services. At the event, charities including Citizens Advice, London’s Air Ambulance Charity, Sustrans, Teach First, Cause4, and the British Red Cross will share their data journeys. There will also be several ‘how to’ sessions to gain

The Publications Office of the European Union invites experts to contribute to the EU Open Data Days, taking place from 23 to 25 November 2021. The EU Open Data Days is a collection of events centred around European data and offers a unique opportunity for the open data community to meet, share experience with experts in the field, and discover successful data-driven projects. There are two opportunities where you can participate: 1. As a speaker at EU DataViz This conference on open data and visualisation invites experts from all sectors worldwide to participate, including academia, private

On 21 April, the European Commission put forward new rules and actions designed to support Europe in becoming a global centre for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). By combining the first-ever legal framework on AI with a Coordinated Plan with Member States, Europe aims to safeguard the safety and rights of citizens, businesses, and organisations, and increase the uptake of AI and inspire investment and innovation across the European Union. The AI legislative framework sets a global standard of proportionate and flexible rules that take the risks that AI technologies pose into account