BDVA i-Spaces: the backbone of the European Innovation ecosystem
The BDVA i-Spaces 2025 ceremony took place on 13 November, during EBDVF. CEA-List and poltextLAB were officially welcomed within the community, while DIHGIGAL was granted the Platinum BDVA i-Space label.
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) 2025, the main event of the European Research and Innovation Data and AI community, of the highest importance for the data and AI technology trends landscape, witnessed an important announcement from the Big Data Value Association (BDVA). Two new organisations joined the i-Spaces community, after obtaining their BDVA i-Space label for the first time. On the 13th November, during the i-Spaces ceremony, the Commissariat à l’energie atomique et aux énergies alternatives and poltextLAB were officially welcomed within the community by BDVA President Thomas Hahn and BDVA Vice-president Laure Le Bars. On the same day, DIHGIGAL, was granted a label of a new tier – the Platinum BDVA i-Space label, as a result of the progress that the organisation made, especially in relation to their participation in the European projects.
Read the full BDVA i-Spaces 2025 Press Release here:
DIHGIGAL is an EDIH based in Galicia – one of the least digitalised regions of Spain. In this challenging environment, DIHGIGAL supports the local companies with access to infrastructure and training, to help the innovation, especially in the sector of manufacturing.
Commissariat à l’energie atomique et aux énergies alternatives is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defence and security, information technologies and health technologies. CEA-List, one of three institutes of CEA, runs an open innovation platform that helps partners develop their products in a quick and efficient way.
poltextLAB is a research lab based at the ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, focussing on applications of text mining and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to social science research problems.
About the BDVA i-Spaces label
The i-Space label is a quality standard that serves as a benchmark, supporting organisations in their growth and enabling them to achieve their ambitions of expanding their networks and increasing their impact. The entities that have obtained the i-Space label make up a community of 33 hubs across 22 countries in Europe, creating unique opportunities for collaboration and the development of synergies. Today, the i-Spaces community is a large European network of federated hubs promoting data innovation and AI experimentation, all based on secure data-sharing and computing infrastructures. By joining forces, these organisations have formed a pan-European super-core, combining computing power, ethical frameworks, business models, and more, resulting in a federated catalogue that accelerates the progress and adoption of data-driven innovation and AI technologies across Europe.
The evaluation process conducted by BDVA emphasises excellence in the following domains: infrastructure, services, projects, ecosystem/impact, business/sustainability strategy, federation capabilities and ethics.
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