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20 Mar2015

Big Data Europe Coordination & Support Action officially and successfully launched on 27th of February in Brussels!

. Written by Martin Kaltenböck. Posted in Events, Climate, Transport, Social Sciences, Food, Security, Energy, Health, Big Data

The Big Data Europe project’s public launch event took place on the 27th February at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. Around 80 attendees were welcomed by the Project Officer, Kimmo Rossi, and Coordinator Sören Auer (Fraunhofer IAIS). Together with the  Deputy Head of the Data Value Chain Unit, Beatrice Covassi, the Project Officer presented the Unit’s Perspective on Big Data challenges (“Perspective of the Data Value Chain Unit”), explaining the need for the project and the European Commission’s expectations. This talk was succeeded by an overview of the project, presented by Sören Auer (Fraunhofer IAIS) and Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR-D), whereby the second explained the planned community network and group system of Big Data Europe along the 7 societal challenges of the H2020 programme to the audience.

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 Image: Kimo Rossi (EC) and Sören Auer (Fraunhofer) opening the Big Data Europe Launch Event on 27th of February 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.

After this opening and introduction the event focussed on sessions of each of the seven H2020 societal challenges, vis-a-vis existing big data challenges, opportunities and requirements. As a starting point the audience was given an overview of the project partners which will be responsible for liaising with the target communities, and the consortium’s strategy for maximising the networking and interactions in view of the need to elicit technological requirements and identify pilot use-cases in each domain.

Each of the seven sessions consisted of a presentation by the respective Big Data Europe network partner as well as a presentation by the EC on this topic, followed by a panel discussion, most of which also included one or more European Commission member from a relevant Unit.

The sessions considered existing datasets, known data integration challenges, analysis and visualization challenges, the variety of existing formats and tools in each community, methodological and social obstacles, existing national or European-wide big data initiatives, and a vision for overcoming said challenges and obstacles.

In particular, the domain representatives were asked which of the four Big Data V’s: Variety, Volume, Velocity, Veracity are the most crucial in their communities. Interestingly, all but one (Security, where Velocity is still the major concern) indicated Variety as (one of, or exclusively) the most challenging – for the simple reason that it has, so far, been given inadequate attention by technology players and research initiatives alike.

Below you can find an overview of the seven sessions (SC = Session Chair, PCR = Project Consortium Representative, ECR = European Commision Representative).
Remark: please click on session titles to see the session slides.

 Big Data Europe (BDE) Facts

Feel free to get in touch via: info@big-data-europe.eu!

 

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