EU pledges €14m to bring Britain's open data focus to the continent - Tech City News | Tech City News
abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-05
Summary:
"The EU is putting €14m (£10.9m) behind open data in a bid to replicate the success of the UK’s Open Data Institute (ODI).
€7.8m will fund the Open Data Incubator for Europe, while the remaining money will go towards a research network and an academy to train data scientists.
Announced at the ODI Summit in London, it is the largest direct investment in open data startups in the world ... The funding will be divided into three pots with the following briefs:
- [1] €7.8m for a Europe-wide incubator programme based on the ODI’s Startup Programme [2] €3.7m for a Europe-wide web data research network [3] €2.9m for a new European Data Science Academy to train the next generation of data scientists ... All three aspects of the funding involve the ODI and theUniversity of Southampton as partners. Other partnering organisations include, The Guardian, Wayra and the Open Knowledge Foundation in Germany.
A number of other universities and research institutes are also partnering, including The Open University and others from France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Slovenia, Sweden and the Netherlands ... The EU funding was allocated via its Horizon 2020 funding programme, designed to foster European breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by helping take great ideas from the lab to the market. The programme has €80bn of funding available over 7 years, from 2014 to 2020. The Open Data Institute was founded by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to create economic, environmental, and social value from open data."
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