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URBREATH is partnering with Big Data Test Infrastructure

How can The Big Data Test Infrastructure help European Public Administration to overcome socio-economic problems through a data informed public sector?

The public sector faces increasingly complex socio-economic problems that require innovative solutions. Big data and data-informed decision-making offer a pathway to better solutions, greater transparency, and enhanced trust in public administration.

To tackle these challenges, the European Commission launched the Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI) under the Digital Europe Programme. The BDTI aims to promote the reuse of public sector data and facilitate a data-informed public sector across EU Member States. It provides public administrations with a comprehensive set of mainstream open-source tools for data storage, processing, and analytics, all hosted in the cloud and free of charge. The URBREATH project is proud to collaborate with Big Data Test Infrastructure to advance these goals.

The BDTI offers a variety of open-source tools to facilitate data-driven projects, including data storage and processing tools for handling large datasets, analytics tools for analysis and visualisation, and cloud infrastructure for running data-intensive tasks. Its open-source nature ensures flexibility, allowing public administrations to explore different solutions cost-effectively.     

Several public administrations have utilised and continue to use the BDTI to enhance decision-making processes, for instance, the University of Macedonia in Greece together with GRNET is transforming data gathered through the MITOS API (Greek National Registry of Administrative Public Service) into linked open data aligned with the EU standard model to support more public services, you can read more here.

The city of Bochum is using BDTI to analyse the health of trees, providing valuable insights for urban planning and environmental management. Additionally, the City of Naples is leveraging BDTI to enhance urban planning and mobility strategies through advanced analytics on public space and mobility-related data. The goal is to redesign public spaces and improve citizen participation in sustainable mobility planning, ensuring a resilient and well-informed urban environment. You can find more success stories on our website in the following section.

To further support public administrations, the BDTI team has developed a BDTI Essentials course, which aims to build the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively leverage the BDTI for data-driven projects and a new online course in collaboration with the interoperability academy, both for free, to help public sector actors advance their data literacy journey and understand how BDTI can help shortcut their data maturity efforts.

In line with their commitment to inclusivity, the BDTI team has also taken the initiative to translate key BDTI materials into the 24 European official languages. To learn more about the BDTI, subscribe to the Joinup page or to “The BDTI Kitchen: Baking Data Stories” newsletter for updates on future events and initiatives.

If you represent a public administration interested in developing your own use case on the BDTI or are a student and researcher eager to support a public administration, apply for a BDTI pilot project here, or reach out to the team via EC-BDTI-PILOTS@ec.europa.eu.