Stakeholder Fora
The Stakeholder Forums play a pivotal role in our project, contributing to the roadmap and overarching vision for the future Green Deal Data Space.
Each Stakeholder Fora is designed as an interactive online webinar, with a specific focus on key elements of the EU’s Green Deal strategy. Our emphasis centres on Biodiversity, Zero Pollution Action Plan, and Climate Change Adaptation strategies.
Our primary objective is to engage and captivate the relevant community of stakeholders, fostering profound discussions that revolve around specific Case Studies. These discussions revolve around the user requirements and challenges that are integral to the three primary pillars of GREAT: the Technical Blueprint, Datasets, and Governance Models.
Biodiversity Stakeholder Forum | September 2023
Along the “digital transition” put forward by the European Commission an equal “green transition” is happening through the European Green Deal, the flagship action plan10 to tackle climate change. The Green Deal sets ambitious objectives, including restoring degraded ecosystems at land and sea across Europe with the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy11 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 with the European Climate Law12 and the Zero Pollution Action Plan13.
Climate Change Adaptation Stakeholder Forum | November 2023
The EU’s Climate adaptation encompasses many different domains and approaches that must be informed by robust data and risk assessment tools. To achieve these goals, the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy seeks to gather more and better data on climate-related risk and loss. However, the data required to meet the goals of the strategy is extensive, and there are many methodological challenges given the high variability of data from year to year, and the incompleteness and uneven quality of the available data. Addressing these difficulties will require a collaborative effort between member states, researchers, the private sector, and NGOs. The Climate Adaptation Stakeholder Forum addressed existing challenges, as the Green Deal Data Space can act as a critical enabler to collect, integrate, and disseminate data for adaptation, and support EU Green Deal objectives in creating systemic climate adaptation actions.
Zero Pollution Action Plan Stakeholder Forum | December 2023
Zero pollution is a policy area that encompasses many different domains – urban policy, emissions monitoring, health policy, and much more. The EU’s Zero Pollution Action Plan encompasses ten different policy areas, which presents a challenge. There are still significant gaps, including difficulties combining not easily comparable data stemming from different scientific sources or projects, into an integrated picture that encompasses all these policy areas under the Action Plan. Addressing these difficulties will require a collaborative effort between member states, researchers, the private sector, and NGOs. The Zero Pollution Stakeholder Forum will try to further address existing challenges, as the Green Deal Data Space can act as a critical enabler to collect, integrate, and disseminate pollution-related data, and support EU Green Deal objectives in curbing pollution.Three Reference Use Case and Initiative (RUCI) were invited to present their initiatives focussing on urban and their relevance in and for the Green Deal Data Space and to constitute the community of users of the future GDDS.
Final Stakeholder Forum| January 2024
With the conclusion of phase II, also the GREAT project has come to an end: The GREAT |Green Deal Data Space project final Stakeholder Forum, that took place on 30th of January, focused on the overall endorsement and feedback collection on the vision of the Minimum Viable GDDS and the roadmap towards its implementation. 124 attendees took part in the Stakeholder Forum.