On June 7th 2018, the European Commission announced its proposal of €100 billion for for research and innovation the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027. A new programme – Horizon Europe – will build on the achievements and success of the previous research and innovation programme (Horizon 2020) and keep the EU at the forefront of global research and innovation. Horizon Europe is the most ambitious research and innovation programme ever.

Horizon Europe will introduce the following main new features:

On June 6th, 2018, the European Commission announced its proposal to create the first ever Digital Europe programme and invest €9.2 billion to align the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027 with increasing digital challenges.

On the 14^th of May 2018, the BDVA General Assembly officially welcomed 2 new associate members: Ertico ITS Europe and Quantos Statistics & information systems. Additionally, RISE SICS, the leading research institute for applied information and communication technology in Sweden, founded in 1985 and associate member of BDVA since March 2016, upgraded its membership to becomse a BDVA FULL member

Available online the report that collects the results of the work that K-Plex project has developed during 15 months.

Brand new in KDD 2018, the Project Showcase Track offers a full day focused exclusively on innovative KDD-relevant projects from national and regional funding programs, as well as corporate, start-up, and nonprofit channels. KDD is the flagship research conference on Big Data, Data Mining, and Machine Learning, with over 5,000 attendees from leading academia and industry globally.

Today, at the BDV Meet-up Sofia (May 16th), we have had the pleasure of having a welcoming video-speech from Commissioner Mariya Gabriel stating great European ambitions for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Europe. The video is available here. Find below the English translation of the speech.

As part of the webinars organized by the PICASSO project, a webinar on Big Data has been scheduled for the 11th May, 4.30 p.m. CEST. This webinar will include a slot on “Big Data PPP structure & Topics for Collaboration” where Andreas Metzer (BDVA) will present the Big Data Value Association. Registration to the webinar is free!!!

PICASSO is a project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme with the aim of reinforcing EU-US ICT collaboration in pre-competitive research in key enabling technologies related to societal challenges, and to support the EU-US ICT policy dialogue.

More details and the webinar agendas are available here:
www.picasso-project.eu/projectevents/webinars

The study on data sharing between companies in Europe commissioned by DG CONNECT to everis in July 2017 and presented in Brussels on the 12th of January 2018 has now been published by the EU Publications Office.

The study, which brings quantitative and qualitative evidence on companies' approach to making available data to other companies ("B2B data sharing”), is now available

Have a look and discover how "B2B data sharing" can take many forms in terms of business model!