ESR1 – Strategies for building data capacity
Objective: To raise data awareness and to build digital capacity to empower civil society in finding solutions and to take
Towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem
ODECO
ODECO is a 4-year Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network initiative (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020, grant agreement 955569). The central aim of the ODECO consortium network is to train the next generation of creative and innovative early stage open data researchers, to unlock their creative and innovative potential to address current and future challenges in the creation of user driven, circular and inclusive open data ecosystem.
The programme runs between October 2021 and September 2025 and will deliver 15 PhD degrees, in joint supervision and training between the public and private sectors.
PROJECTS
ODECO offers 15 PhD projects for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), each of them covering a specific part of the open data ecosystem supervised by leading European beneficiaries.
| WP No. | WP Title | Activity Type | Lead Beneficiary | ESR involvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Training | Training | TU DELFT | All |
| 2 | From supplier driven to a user driven open data ecosystem | Research | UNIZAR | ESR1-7, 9-15 |
| 3 | From a linear to a circular open data ecosystem | Research | AAU | ESR1,2,8-15 |
| 4 | From an exclusive to an inclusive open data ecosystem | Research | UNICAM | ESR1,2,5,9,13,15 |
| 5 | Towards a sustainable open data ecosystem | Research | UAEGEAN | All |
| 6 | Communication and Dissemination | Dissemination | KU LEUVEN | All |
| 7 | Management and coordination | Management | TU DELFT | All |
| 8 | Ethics requirements | Management | TU DELFT | All |
ESR2 – User interface design: optimising findability
Objective: To design user driven UIs for finding data that fulfils different findability requirements from different domains (non-professionals, data journalists,
ESR3 – Value assessment and (re-)distribution in sustainable ODECO
Objective: To analyse and assess the value that is created and captured in open data ecosystems, in order to contribute
ESR4 – Open Licensing of Non-Government Data
Objective: To design new legal instruments to include private actors as producers and sharers of (open) data and data generated
ESR5 – Technical interoperability in the open data ecosystem
Objective: To design and develop tools that improve the technical interoperability of open government and non-government data at platform level,
ESR6 – Maximising availability and use of local government open data
Objective: To develop strategies to engage local government in the open data ecosystem to create an open data ecology in local
ESR7 – Interdomain semantic interoperability
Objective: To enable the web of data by enhancing the semantic interoperability between sectoral and domain specific data models and ontologies.
ESR8 – Technical aspects for inclusiveness across user domains in data portals
Objective: to develop methods and tools that, from a technological point of view, close the open data cycle by delivering
ESR9 – Enhancing open data ecosystem: data journalist perspective
Objective: To develop an open data quality validator including government and other data. By collecting, analysing and comparing open data
ESR10 – Open Data Usage in Elementary Schools
Objective: To develop new methods and processes for integrating collection, interpretation, and exploitation of open data in elementary public school
ESR11 – Investigating the influence of resources provided by NGOs on the usability of open government data
Objective: To investigate the influence of resources provided by NGOs on the usability of open government data. By using a
ESR12 – Enhancing open data ecosystem: government as a user perspective
Objective: To identify the role and responsibilities of the central/regional government in the open data ecosystem as a user from
ESR13 – Investigating the co-creation of public services by governments and companies
Objective: To develop a governance framework for the co-creation of public services by governments and companies. By using a design
ESR14 – Enhancing Open Data Ecosystem: Algorithm and Intelligence Perspective
Objective: To investigate how Artificial Intelligence (Algorithms) and Collective Intelligence (AI & CI) approaches can be shaped to foster access
ESR15 – Enhancing open data ecosystem: intermediary perspective
Objective: To improve the understanding of the roles of intermediaries in the open data ecosystem and to design business strategies
PEOPLE
Early Stage Researchers
Davide Di Staso
PhD student (ESR01)
Dagoberto Herrera
PhD student (ESR02)
Silvia Cazacu-Bucica
PhD student (ESR03)
Vacancy
Mohsan Ali
PhD student (ESR05)
Maria Elena Lopez Reyes
PhD student (ESR06)
Maria Ioanna Maratsi
PhD student (ESR07)
Abdul Aziz
PhD student (ESR08)
Giorgos Papageorgiou
PhD student (ESR09)
Alejandra Celis Vargas
PhD student (ESR10)
Liubov Pilshchikova
PhD student (ESR11)
Caterina Santoro
PhD student (ESR12)
Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
PhD student (ESR13)
Umair Ahmed
PhD student (ESR14)
Ashraf Shaharudin
PhD student (ESR15)
Supervisors
ESRs will be supervised at the host beneficiary by a team of experienced supervisors. Each supervisor has experience in supervising research. Each ESR will have an academic supervisor in the institute where they enrol. ESRs performing their training and research at a non-academic beneficiary will be supervised by an experienced supervisor from a university.
Bastiaan van Loenen
Associate Professor & Scientific Project Coordinator, TU DELFT
Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk
Assistant Professor, TU DELFT
Ingrid Mulder
Associate Professor,
TU DELFT
Hendrik Ploeger
Associate Professor, TU DELFT
Frederika Welle Donker
Researcher, TU DELFT
Marijn Janssen
Professor, TU DELFT
Joep Crompvoets
Associate Professor, KU LEUVEN
Glenn Vancauwenberghe
Senior Researcher, KU LEUVEN
Thérèse Steenberghen
Professor, KU LEUVEN
Cesar Casiano
Postdoctoral Research Associate, KU LEUVEN
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay
Associate Professor, CNRS
Lucie Cluzel-Métayer
Professor, UPN
Francisco Javier López-Pellicer
Associate Professor, UNIZAR
Javier Nogueras-Iso
Associate Professor, UNIZAR
Charalampos Alexopoulos
Senior Researcher, UAEGEAN
Yannis Charalabidis
Associate Professor, UAEGEAN
Loukis Euripidis
Professor, UAEGEAN
Rikke Magnussen
Associate Professor, AAU
Birger Larsen
Professor, AAU
Lise Lykke le Maire Munksgaard Rasmussen
Research Assistant, AAU
Andrea Polini
Associate Professor, UNICAM
Barbara Re
Assistant Professor, UNICAM
Antonis Fourlis
Chief Editor, FAROSNET/HUFFPOST
Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board is the primary management structure within ODECO. The SB is responsible for overseeing the quality of the network-wide training of ESRs and for ensuring that scientific/technological training is balanced with transferable skills training appropriate to the needs of each recruited researcher. The Supervisory Board will also oversee the quality and quantity of supervision of the ESRs.
Bastiaan van Loenen
Associate Professor & Scientific Project Coordinator, TU DELFT
Joep Crompvoets
Associate Professor, KU LEUVEN
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay
Associate Professor, CNRS
Francisco Javier López-Pellicer
Associate Professor, UNIZAR
Charalampos Alexopoulos
Senior Researcher, UAEGEAN
Rikke Magnussen
Associate Professor, AAU
Andrea Polini
Associate Professor, UNICAM
Antonis Fourlis
Chief Editor, FAROSNET/HUFFPOST
Project coordination
The project coordination in ODECO is performed at two levels:
- The scientific coordination performed by Dr.ir. Bastiaan van Loenen (TU Delft) for the scientific development of the project. The main responsibility is to ensure that the main goals of the project are pursued and to verify the quality of all deliverables resulting from the project. The scientific coordinators will cooperate closely with Work Package Leaders to guarantee that the project delivers the expected impact.
- The project coordinator Danitsja van Heusden-van Winden (TU Delft) assists the scientific coordinator and the consortium on financial, legal, administrative as well as on organizational matters.
The scientific coordinator and the project coordinator work closely together to guarantee a smooth project communication internally (within the project) and act as the intermediary between the project beneficiaries and the external funding authority the European Union and the public at large.
Bastiaan van Loenen
Associate Professor & Scientific Project Coordinator, TU DELFT
Danitsja van Heusden-van Winden
Project Coordinator, TU DELFT
TRAINING
Distributed among the 8 beneficiaries, 15 ESRs will be recruited and involved in the ODECO training programme. Being part of the ODECO network offers unique possibilities for individual fellow research trainings, an online training programme, and five training weeks hosted at European project beneficiaries for all ESRs. Training will be delivered through 5 types of training activities:
- Individual Fellow’s Research Trainings are the primary means through which ESRs obtain essential skills, knowledge and experience, by working on the Research and Training Objectives under guidance from researchers and supervisors in academic and industrial sectors.
- The Introductory Online Training Programme aims to create a common vocabulary within the consortium and introducing the ESRs to the basic concepts of open data. Project lead: TU Delft.
- ODECO Training Weeks. ODECO will implement five training weeks each dedicated to one of the ODECO challenges:
– Training week 1: ‘Understanding open data as an ecosystem’. Project lead: AAU.
– Training week 2: ‘Towards a user driven open data ecosystem’. Project lead: UNIZAR.
– Training week 3: Towards a circular open data ecosystem’. Project lead: UNICAM.
– Training week 4: ‘Towards an inclusive open data ecosystem’. Project lead: KU LEUVEN.
– Training week 5: ‘Towards the open data ecosystem’. Project lead: UAEGEAN. - Consortium Meetings are meetings of all consortium members. During these meetings, the Supervisory Board will meet, using the ESR presentations to monitor training and research progress.
- Communication and Public Engagement Activities provide both training and outreach functions.
CONSORTIUM
The ODECO consortium is an integrated team of beneficiaries and partners. The beneficiaries are composed of European top universities and a research institute with extensive expertise in high-quality open data research, including both governance and technical aspects. The beneficiaries joined forces with a number of partner organizations, which results in a network in nine European countries (NL, BE, FR, ES, IT, EL, DK, IE, FI). Together, they are covering multiple domains from the public, private, academic, and non-profit sectors.
Beneficiaries:
Partners:
DISSEMINATION
Here you can find a list of publishable project dissemination items:
- Research article ‘Analysing User Involvement in Open Government Data Initiatives’ published in the Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
- ‘The Use of Open Government Data to Create Social Value’ published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- ‘Towards a sustainable Open Data Ecosystem: First steps for optimizing findability and user feedback’ published in Jornada de Jovenes Investigadores del I3A
- Article in scientific journal ‘Interdisciplinary Description of Complex System (IDCC)’: Serious Games for Building Data Capacity
- Workshop on Sustainable Open Data Business Models for NMCAs on 2 – 3 February 2022; Joint Workshop organised by EuroGeographics and EuroSDR: A Pathway Towards an Sustainable Open Data Ecosystem.
- Article in the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM): Towards value-creating and sustainable open data ecosystems: A comparative case study and a research agenda
- TU Delft website article on 5 May 2021: ODECO: Data is key to the success of information economies
ODECO it’s most recent uploads can be found on the ODECO community on Zenodo.
Below you can find all available deliverable reports prepared so far within the ODECO project. This section will be updated during the duration of the project when results are becoming available.
Deliverable number Deliverable title Download
D1.3 Training Week 1 ‘Understanding open data as an ecosystem’ download
NEWS
News
Introducing Open Government Data Ecosystems in the Geodata domain.
During the past month of April, the Aalborg University ODECO team was invited to collaborate in Geoforum. This Danish publication reunites new knowledge in the
May 3, 2023
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Training Week at UNIZAR Zaragoza
“Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” The UNIZAR team is excited to share some of the most important insights and memorable moments from our
May 1, 2023
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Secondment at the National Center for Geographic Information
The National Center for Geographic Information (CNIG) is an autonomous body depending on the Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda, through the National Geographic
February 16, 2023
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Assessing open data products in the domain of agriculture
7eData is a company specialised in the creation, installation, and maintenance of Information Systems for the agri-food industry. With more than 25 years of expertise
February 15, 2023
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Secondment and case study at Open Knowledge Belgium
Open Knowledge Belgium (OKBE) is a non-profit organisation, whose mission is to open up knowledge in Belgium for it to be used and useful. To
December 8, 2022
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Co-creation with elementary school students on open data
CoC Playful Minds (CoC) is a non-profit organization with basis in Billund (Denmark) aimed at making Billund the Capital of Children by developing co-creation programs
December 5, 2022
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BLOG
Blog
Towards a User-driven Open Data Ecosystem?
During the ODECO training week in Zaragoza in March 2023, whose focus was on developing user-driven open data ecosystems, we were reminded of a conversation
May 24, 2023
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Presenting in a Conference: An Unforgettable Experience Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2022, Padua Italy
Presenting a paper at an international conference is a great exposure and experience. For the first time in two years, the 26th International Conference on
May 3, 2023
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The Circular Economy and Open Data Ecosystem: An Enlightening Analogy
At first glance, the concepts of circular economy and open data ecosystems may seem unrelated. However, a recent visit to the Thermochemical Processes Group (GPT)
May 3, 2023
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What is the potential of open data for health?
April 7 is the World Health Day, which marks the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in1948, 75 years ago. This year’s theme is
April 13, 2023
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Roles in open data: Raccoon or monkey?
During the second ODECO training week in Zaragoza, Spain, an energizer was organized where ESRs had to guess the name of an animal that was put
April 7, 2023
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Feedback: a key element to promote circularity in Open Data Portals
Governments have embraced Open Data initiatives in the last decade to increase data accessibility and improve data sharing. However, assessing the impact of Open Data
February 15, 2023
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What is the Semantic Interoperability of Open Data all about?
“Developing clear standards to ensure systems communicate with each other in a common language they all understand.” – Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
January 27, 2023
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Open Government Data in a Datafied City
Our interactions with our cities are increasingly becoming digital, from the personal data we provide when filling in a form or using a service to
January 27, 2023
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(Re-)thinking business models of intermediaries for a sustainable open data
ecosystem
timely, open, quality data are more essential than ever. As we confront the cascade of challenges from Covid-19 to climate emergencies, we rely on data
December 5, 2022
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