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GATE is involved in several important European initiatives and projects on big data and artificial intelligence. The institute established and maintains the GATE platform as a holistic technical data platform, providing full-set components and tools covering the whole big data value chain, including data management, analysis and visualization. It supports the research in GATE strategic application themes: Future Cities, Intelligent Government, Smart Industry and Digital Health.

SJTU is a member of the International Data Spaces Association and hosts the IDS Research Lab in Shanghai. This project, driven by the university, aims to bring together Chinese and European industries in research projects. Its overall goal is to pave the way for the development of IDS-based components for secure and trusted data sharing and the construction of data spaces. Chinese and European companies with operations in China are welcome to become a part of this IDS Research Lab.

VTT is currently driving two use cases

1. the IDS enabled data-driven supply network transparency that defines a solution for secure cross-ecosystem data exchange in a trusted business ecosystem, and
2. a cross-sectoral use case for data exchange between two private cloud environments using IDS and Platform Of Trust (PoT) technologies, with the target to enrich energy / building data analysis & visualizations with transportation data.

The L3S Research Center is a joint research institute of several universities in Lower Saxony, Germany formally associated with Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH). Work at L3S focuses on innovative and cutting-edge methods and technologies for Web Science. The L3S team builds upon technologies and multidisciplinary approaches from various domains, achieving thus international recognition.

The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library (TIB) makes knowledge and information freely available, by sharing it and preserving cultural heritage. As a library, TIB is committed to openness, open access to information, publications and scientific data: it aims to make information and knowledge more easily accessible, more transparent and better reusable. As a research institution, TIB is continuously expanding its role as the German information centre for the digitisation of science and technology. It conducts applied research and development to generate new services and improve existing ones.

The German IDSA Competence Center is established at Leibniz Joint Lab Data Science & Open Knowledge, which is co-founded by TIB, LUH and L3S, serving thus as a nucleus for further initiatives in the field of web science research, innovation and business and participate actively in designing a trustworthy architecture for the data economy, e.g. in the H2020 Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space (TRUSTS), which is coordinated by L3S.

MS is under the direction and technical coordination of Professor George Chryssolouris. It currently employs approximately 100 researchers organized in three different groups:

• Manufacturing Processes Modelling and Energy Efficiency,
• Robots, Automation and Virtual Reality in Manufacturing and
• Manufacturing Systems

LMS is member of IDSA since 2018 and coordinates the IDSA Competence Center for manufacturing in Greece. LMS has experience in the development of IDS enabled dataspaces (e.g. in the context of Market4.0 H2020 project as well as in EIT-Manufacturing activities). Moreover, LMS is a member of Gaia X AISBL since 2021 and the coordinator of Gaia X Hub Greece, www.gaia-x.gr.

LMS is a founding member of EIT Manufacturing (coordinator of the proposal phase and the first year of operation). Based on its experience in working closely together with manufacturing industry and manufacturing technology providers, LMS has developed the technical background in digital platforms for manufacturing and experience through EU projects (e.g. Market4.0 H2020, Sense&React FP7 and more).

The IDSA Competence Center facilitated by MediTech focuses on a variety of key activities: 

1. Research and development: MediTech is committed to researching and developing innovative technologies and solutions to enable sovereign data sharing and use. MediTech collaborates with companies, research institutes, and governmental organizations to promote innovation and the adoption of best practices. 
2. Training and consulting: MediTech offers training and consulting programs to support organizations implement their data spaces. MediTech’s experts provide in-depth knowledge on how to implement a data architecture based on the International Data Spaces standard, ensuring data sovereignty, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
3. Testing, demonstrations and prototypes: MediTech creates demos and prototypes to showcase the benefits and potential of International Data Spaces in real-world use cases. MediTech collaborates with industrial partners to create concrete use cases that demonstrate the effectiveness and benefits of their data spaces in enhancing collaboration and innovation through sovereign data sharing. 
4. Collaboration and networking: MediTech provides an exetensive computer platform dedicated to IDSA activities for organizations, students, researcher interested in International Data Spaces. In addition, MediTech organizes events, workshops, and conferences to facilitate knowledge exchange, foster partnership collaboration, and promote the adoption of the International Data Spaces standard at the national and international levels. 

Joining the IDSA Competence Center facilitated by MediTech means becoming part of a community of experts, professionals, and innovators working together to shape the future of secure access and sovereign sharing of data. We are committed to supporting organizations harness the full potential of data, drive innovation and achieve economic growth. 

The three objectives to be achieved by the Society are (1) advocate the use of standards and best practices for digitally connected society; (2) promote interoperability with the use of common frameworks and classification standards, and (3) to be the Center of Excellence for digital transformation agenda, which DCS aims to promote the standards, practices and works established by the Society in relation to Objectives  1 and 2, into all areas of businesses and relevant parties.

DCS encourages the adoption of best practices and standards for communities to be digitally connected. The effort to achieve the objectives include but not limited to having professional activities directed towards the advancement of the education and practice of digital transformation in the business and industry, as well as the allied branches of educational standards related to consultancy, skills development, business management, human resource management, governance, technology management, and any other relevant areas. DCS also aims to establish the governance of educational standards, such as to formulate, monitor, review and endorse course contents related to digitalization, that accelerate the competencies of skilled workforce, to enable a dynamic and adaptive digitally connected society. Besides, DCS emphasizes on having professional and scientific works, directed towards the advancement, recognition and governance of technology and digital solutions that enables digital transformation in the industry, as well as the allied branches of science and technology application that conform to the national and international standards, guidelines, policies and any other relevant publications and works; Besides, DCS also aims to establish standards, classifications and governance of digital solutions that include software, hardware, cloud services, telecommunication, appliances, equipment, and everything that supports digitalization; and establish centre of excellence, hubs or associated centre of state, national and international bodies that can drive the national digital transformation in the industry.

DCS develops research and development platforms that promote digital innovations and digital culture. Lastly, DCS aims to foster opportunities for professional development in digitalization through activities such as conferences, workshops, publications, electronic media, etc., and set up platforms, such as forums, in digital or physical means, to deliver information and services to the members of the Society.

The main part of e-infrastructure consists currently of 7.5 PFlops of computing power, 120+ PB storage and data management systems (fast data caches and archivisation). The backbone network in Poland (operated by PSNC) is based on 100 Gbps connections between the major HPC sites, 100 Gbps to bigger academic communities and 400 Gbps between a few academic cities. PSNC plays a role of NREN in Poland and partner of the international consortium GÉANT.

PSNC provides direct support for scientific communities in Poland as well as in Europe. PSNC has built a co-working space and is coordinating living lab communities. Via its co-working space, PSNC supports 15+ user communities, gathered around ICT technologies and application areas.  PSNC’s Poznan Living Lab, as an effective member of ENoLL, runs city challenge workshops, hackathons and design thinking interdisciplinary courses. PSNC coordinates the leading Polish ICT research driven Wielkopolska ICT Cluster with 100+ members.

PSNC coordinates the eDIH – HPC4Poland and eDIH CyberSec. PSNC also co-manage the EOSC DIH that is pan-European DIH, but also is a part of DIH4CPS, EUhubs4Data, and co-creates the first Agriculture DIH in Poland. PSNC is an R&D Center involved so far in over 300 projects, out of which 45 as coordinator in wide range of the technology.

PSNC is a member of BDVA, AIOTI, ENoLL, GAIA-X, EOSC, GÉANT Association, Fiware, ECCP, IDSA.

PSNC being active in the activities related to the Data Spaces become also the member of IDSA and IDSA Hub Facilitator aiming at promotion of the IDSA in Poland and building the community of the companies interested in appliance in different areas such as smart agriculture, smar cities or industry 4.0.

As a facilitator of the IDSA Competence Center Portugal, TICE.PT will promote and disseminate IDSA’s objectives and results, and act as a proximity contact point for the Portuguese ecosystem involved in building an architecture for the new data international markets.

The IDSA Hub Spain supports five main types of activities: technology development, business development, ecosystem development, skill development and SME support. Innovalia Group is an accredited member of the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network and the national research center network of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Other integral parts of the IDSA Hub in Spain are an IDS competence center and testbed at Tecnalia, one of the first Spanish members and leading research and technological development center in Spain, and software testing facilities provided by SQS S.A.