European Data Portal Managed Services

Enable the sharing of Open Data across Europe

This project facilitates the sharing of open data resources across Europe. The central element is the new data.europa.eu portal, which was launched in the spring of 2021. It serves as a core component of the public sector data infrastructure that includes data sources from the European Union, its institutions and Member States. The data.europa.eu portal offers three key pillars:

• Facilitate the use of public data resources across Europe via a single point of access: The portal offers over 1.5 million datasets across 36 countries, 6 EU institutions and 79 other EU bodies and agencies;
• Support to EU institutions and Member States: This includes helping national open data policy owners to build communities of practice, in which they receive training and consultancy to improve, sustain and document data publishing practices;
• Socio-economic benefits: Investigating the socio-economic benefits of re-using public data resources and provide stimuli to foster the use and showcase the value of using open data.

52°North cooperates closely with Netcompany-Intrasoft, con terra, Fraunhofer FOKUS and Capgemini Invent to develop a component for the map-based visualization of geospatial data. In addition, 52°North contributes to the advancement of the underlying data infrastructure, for example, by exploring how to best integrate near-real time data streams.

In 2022, 52°North worked on enhancing the geospatial data visualization component. This comprised, for example, a new user interface design, an improved preview of metadata as well as options for flexibly using the viewer for additional GeoJSON data sets provided by the EU Publications Office. con terra’s team and ours contributed to webinars that introduced the topic of open real-time data as well as identified new (technology) trends in the provision of geospatial data.

Main Contractor: Capgemini Invent, The Netherlands

Netcompany-Intersoft, Luxembourg

con terra GmbH, Germany

Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Agiledrop Ltd., Slovenia

OMMAX GmbH, Germany

Publications Office of the European Union
52°North is subcontractor to Capgemini Invent and con terra