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A Note From The Project Lead
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 After the Summer BigDataEurope will hold the remaining four workshops in this first round of such workshops across Europe. In the meantime, engagement with stakeholders in all societal domains is being upped to a higher level. A series of Webinars is planned for the coming months to discuss each community's big data challenges and opportunities, and available technology, as well as to learn more about evolving data limitations, pitfalls and concerns. Activities in the seven established W3C societal interest groups are picking up pace; as these takeover as the main fora for communication and discussion. Internally, results from the workshops, surveys and personal interviews are being analysed to shape the architecture of the BigDataEurope technology platform, by identifying the missing components and functionalities needed to address the requirements of each community.
Sincerely Sören Auer
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Online Survey shows: Ready for Big Data
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The recently concluded survey carried out by the Big Data Europe Project in June/July 2015 was answered by 394 people. A well-balanced sample coming from all Societal Challenges were quizzed on the readiness and use of big data in their specific sectors.
The suvey covered: current challenges of entering big data, infrastructural readiness, presence of internal policies and procedures, standards and conventions and data types - to give an initial picture of upcoming activities in at all 7 Societal Challenge Sectors: b ig data is on the rise!
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Join our networking session at ICT2015 in Lisbon
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 During ICT 2015 you are invited to exchange your ideas on the societal value of big data in the networking session organised by BigDataEurope. The session brings big data technologists from research and industry together with ICT professionals from the H2020 societal challenge domains. Additionally H2020 project coordinators and collaborators in projects related to the H2020 societal domains and policy makers and EC officials from various DGs with interest in ICT related to big data or one of the societal challenge domains are welcome. |
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Next three dedicated Societal Workshops on Big Data in September and October
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 After the the summer break and after the first three successful workshops, we will be holding three other workshops on big data and data management in September and October. These Workshops provide key opportunities for stakeholders in the specific sector to influence the design of BigDataEurope’s big data platform and enjoy the benefits that the platform will deliver. |
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 Food and Agriculture Societal Challenge BDE Workshop
September 22, Paris
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This session is expected to investigate the characteristics of data sources & repositories that the food and agriculture community has, in order to identify cases that offer a high degree of variety, velocity and volume – and therefore good candidates for the application of big data technologies.
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 Big Data in Secure Societies
September 30, Brussels
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The primary aims of the Secure Societies Challenge are:
- to enhance the resilience of our society against natural and man-made disasters;
- to develop novel solutions for the protection of critical infrastructure;
- to fight crime and terrorism;
- to improve border security;
- to support the Union’s external security policies;
- to provide enhanced cyber-security.
This workshop will address a wide audience comprising data users and service providers from a variety of fields in the Security domain, offering a key opportunity for Security stakeholders to participate in the BigDataEurope project and in the Big Data platform development.
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 Green and Integrated Transport
October 7, Bordeaux
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Participants to this workshop will have the opportunity to influence the design, and ultimate benefit from the big data platform that the BigDataEurope project will deliver. This platform aims to facilitate big data usage in real world examples, and will consist of architecture, components, guidelines and best practices discussion to make the best of big data in the setting of transport. The workshop will focus on the elicitation of requirements for big data management within the intelligent transport domain.
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Call for applications:
World Social Science Fellows – Big Data in an Urban Context
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 The International Social Science Council (ISSC) invites applications from outstanding early career social scientists around the world to become World Social Science Fellows and participate in a seminar on big data in an urban context, 30th November to 4th December 2015, in Xiamen, China. |
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