Objective
SAGE will establish a fully operational Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) aimed at enhancing the accessibility, integration, and utilization of green and environmental data across the EU to support key pillars of the European Green Deal—Zero Pollution, Climate Adaptation, Biodiversity, and the Circular Economy Action Plan. Building directly upon the GDDS GREAT project community and results, and aligning with the Digital Europe Programme's strategic focus on AI, cybersecurity, advanced computing, and data infrastructure, SAGE leverages outcomes from the European Strategy for Data and research facilitated by Horizon Europe. SAGE's outcomes include seamlessly integrating fragmented environmental data through federation, enriching data with consistent quality, validation, and interoperable metadata, and enhancing capabilities for data transformation, processing, analysis, forecasting, target setting, and performance monitoring. Targeting businesses seeking compliance with EGD regulations, government bodies optimizing environmental impact, citizens and citizen scientists engaging in environmental stewardship, and researchers aiming to deepen our environmental understanding, SAGE aspires to foster informed decision-making and policy formulation based on robust data and evidence. SAGE’s sustainability will be guaranteed by setting up a standalone legal entity to operate the data space and scale operations during the project lifetime and beyond.
SINTEF's role in the project
SINTEF leading the stakeholder engagement activity has a global community engagement expertise with member and associated states, industry, SMEs and the general public. SINTEF has further links to international standardisation like ISO SC41 IoT and Digital Twins and new working group/standard on Digital Twins and Data Spaces, ISO SC42 AI and Big Data, DTC – Digital Twin Consortium and OGC – Open Geospatial Consortium and ISO/TC211 Geographic information , as well as involvement with European research associations such as BDVA (Big Data Value Association), AIOTI (Alliance for AI, IoT and Edge Continuum Innovation), Adra (The AI, Data and Robotics Association) and IDSA (International Data Spaces Association).
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Funding
This project has received funding from the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) under grant agreement No 101195471.