Group Picture of the 3rd General Assembly in Cartagena

One of our projects BeOpen, held its 3rd general assembly meeting after coming together in Naples and Porto last year. The event was hosted by the municipality of Cartagena, which is also participating as one of the project pilots. The El Batel Auditorium in Cartagena has welcomed this third meeting (12th and 13th March). BeOpen is one of our international project framed within the Horizon Europe programme and financed by the European Union. 

A main focus during its GA meeting has been the technical and methodological implementation of the project’s objective to ensure de development of a holistic framework, which is not only user-friendly but also help improve the interoperability and quality of high-value public sector datasets. Accomplishing these objectives should assist the facilitation of a new generation of artificial intelligence services and capabilities across the EU, making replication and adaption of the projects’ results easy for other municipalities and regions across the European union.

                                   The consortium visiting the city, including the Mayor of Cartagana 

Project BeOPEN: Addressing Societal Challenges with Open Data

The project is the sum of 19 organizations from 8 countries of the European Union (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) and includes 5 Public Bodies: Naples, Herne, Cartagena, Molina de Segura, Torre Pacheco and Villa Planas.

BeOpen is defined as an open framework to leverage high-value public sector datasets in the European Union. The aim of this third general meeting of the consortium is for the project partners to discuss project management, technical and methodological implementation, as well as the possible replication and adoption of the project results by other municipalities and regions. Among one of Arthur's Legal's team member present was Celine Prins, who herself led a workshop on The Trust Framework and Exploitation Strategies.

This fruitful GA helped to improve understanding the interoperability aspect of the different High Value datasets across Member States and gave more insight in the quality of the high-value public sector datasets. The BeOpen Framework and the BeOpen Trust Framework offered both a set of ethical, legal, but also practical tools that allows datasets to be available in machine-readable format, mainly via APIs but, if relevant, as bulk download as well. 

The overall BeOpen framework will be applied in 8 real-life pilots across 6 countries, using regional datasets. The pilots will take place in  Napoli - Italy, Attica-Greece, Herne- Germany, Vilinius - Lithuania, Porto - Portugal and the other three pilots will take place in Cartagena- Molina de Segura, Torre Pacheco - Spain, addressing three different topics.

The different challenges which will be addressed within the pilots are: mobility, urban security, environment, and natural disasters challenges in several EU regions. 

High Value Data Sets

High Value Datasets are part of the framework of the EU Open Data Directive supporting projects working on high value datasets in the area of:

1.      Geospatial (BeOpen in Vilnius, Torre Patcheco)

2.     Earth observation & environment (BeOpen in Vilnius and Molina de Segura)

3.     Meteorological (BeOpen in Murcia and Attica)

4.     Statistics

5.     Companies

6.     Mobility (BeOpen in Herne, Naples, Cartagena and Porto)

Accomplishing the project’s objectives should assist the facilitation of a new generation of artificial intelligence services and capabilities across the EU, making replication and adaption of the projects’ results easy for other municipalities and regions across the European union.