Data.europa.eu 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. Data.europa.eu portal offers three key pillars:

• Facilitating the use of public data resources across Europe via a single point of access: The portal offers more than 1.8 million datasets from 35 countries and 109 EU institutions;
• Supporting EU and European public administrations: This includes helping national open data policy owners to build communities of practice where they receive training and advice to improve, sustain and document data publishing practices;
• Socio-economic benefits: Investigating the socio-economic benefits of re-using public data resources and providing incentives to promote the use and demonstrate the value of using open data.

Data.europa.eu is managed by the Publications Office of the European Union and Capgemini is the consortium lead. In a dedicated contract, 52°North supports the development and operation of data.europa.eu in close cooperation with Capgemini Invent, Netcompany, con terra, and Fraunhofer FOKUS. A central task is to develop and maintain 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.

An ongoing task for 52°North in 2024 was the maintenance and evolution of the geospatial data visualization component. As in previous years, this included updating the underlying libraries and exploring how other types of data sources, such as OGC API features and real-time data streams, could be integrated into the geovisualization. This was complemented by the annual 52°North and con terra webinar on trends in geospatial data provision. The theme of this year’s webinar was “Geospatial Digital Twins”. Finally, 52°North explored the potential uses and benefits of the StatDCAT-AP specification for describing statistical datasets and making them discoverable via data.europa.eu.

Main Contractor: Capgemini Invent, The Netherlands and Netcompany, 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