On December 9th 2021 the BDVA/DAIRO General Assembly has officially accepted 9 new members from 7 different countries joining the association. The new Full members are Ingka Services AB, IKEA, Kadir Has University, Pangeanic BI Europa SL, Porini Srl and University of Amsterdam and the new Associate members are AI Sweden, BEIA Consult International, TİGA BİLGİ TEKNOLOJİLERİ A.Ş., and University of Oulu. BDVA/DAIRO warmly welcomes the organisations!

The Data Spaces Business Alliance (DSBA) invites you – researchers, companies and innovators to our “Brokering Event for European Data Spaces” on December 16^th. The goal is to bring together the leading experts and professionals from domain-specific consortia to respond to the calls.

BDVA/DAIRO healthcare Sub Group (TF7.SG3) organized a brokerage event, bringing together the members to pitch ideas and to prepare collaborations for the upcoming Horizon Europe (HE) calls.

The European Commission announced today an investment of €1.98 billion to advance the digital transition and meet the goals set for the Europe’s Digital Decade. The funding comes in three work programmes through Digital Europe Programme (DEP).

The 46^th Activity Group meeting (AG46) was organized from 27^th to 29^th of October. In addition to the open pitching session for our members, the three-day meeting included road mapping activities, workshops and presentations delivered by the European Commission.

We are excited to announce that the registration for the European Big Data Value Forum 2021 is now open for the virtual event. Taking place November 29 – December 3, the week will be full of insightful sessions and opportunities to connect with European Big Data Value and Industrial AI research and innovation community.

From a total of 25 applicants, BDVA/DAIRO granted the quality label to 17 organisations and 7 hubs renewed their labels. The labelled hubs will be introduced into the community in the i-Spaces ceremony at the European Big Data Value Forum 2021 on November 30. 

Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL, the Big Data Value Association (BDVA), FIWARE Foundation, and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) join forces to drive the adoption of data spaces across Europe and beyond. The new collaboration, called Data Spaces Business Alliance (DSBA), is the first initiative of its kind.