ExpectedOutcome:
Outcomes and deliverables
The coordination and support action will provide:
The main objective is to develop a secure and trusted data space to enable the agriculture sector to transparently share and access data allowing for an increase in its economic and environmental performance. The space may also serve common good purposes (for more information on the scope of the data space, please see “A European Strategy for Data”, COM/2020/66 final). The data space is expected to facilitate the sharing, processing and analysis of production data, open data and possibly other public data (e.g. soil data). Production data supplemented by publicly held data will present new opportunities for monitoring and optimising the use of natural resources and will contribute to achieve the objectives of the Green Deal (including the Farm-to-Fork-Strategy; Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change) and the Common Agricultural Policy.
Scope:The project will explore possible options and conceptual approaches for the future deployment of this data space. Provisions for transparent control of data access and use, development of governance and business models for the data space are to be developed considering, among others, the evolving regulatory environment, cross-data-space elements, and experiences with the EU Code of Conduct on sharing agriculture data by contractual agreement. The development of the data space is expected to have a strong end-user orientation and to consider potential users, including farmers currently less using data-based solutions.
The action will engage the community of stakeholders involving at least associations acting at EU/multi-country level representing relevant stakeholders, and public administration and/or governmental bodies. The community of stakeholders is to involve farmers, machinery suppliers, and possibly other agri-business branches and farms advisors, and representatives from the ICT industry. Ideally, representatives of all Member States are involved.
In particular, the project will:
The action will have to work in partnership with the Data Spaces Support Centre (see topic 2.2.2.1) in order to ensure alignment with the European Data Spaces Technical Framework and the rest of the ecosystem of data spaces in section 2.2.1 thereof. The joint work will target the definition of:
Furthermore, the project is encouraged to cooperate with Testing and Experimentation Facility for Agri-food (see section 2.3.2.3), to define European test and training data sets and to provide support in their establishment.