As the European Green Deal advances the integration of data-driven solutions for sustainability, the ability to assess, utilise, and create value from environmental data is essential. This session will explore key aspects of value creation within the Green Deal Data Space, across three perspectives

1. Value Creation Foundations: focusing on methodologies for assessing high-value datasets, readiness levels, and smart city data;

2. Technological Enablers of GDDS: showcasing how data-driven and AI approaches can support data use, prediction, and optimisation across sectors;

3. Data Value in Sustainability and Climate Reporting: presenting how data can be used to create sustainability communities and facilitate climate reporting. The session blends technical insights, real-world use cases, and policy reflections from leading EU projects to identify how environmental data can move from availability to actionable impact.

Objectives of the session:

• Explore key methodologies for data value creation in GDDS.

• Discuss challenges in data value assessment, readiness, accessibility, and usability for environmental applications

• Highlight strategies for leveraging high-value datasets, satellite data, citizen science contributions and smart city data spaces

• Present technological enablers of dataspaces and relevant ongoing challenges based on contributions from relevant Horizon EU-funded projects.

• Explore the role of data and AI in Climate Reporting and build Ecosystems for Sustainability.

• Engage participants in a discussion on to identify practical steps for value realisation from environmental data.

Session’s Outline

1. Data Value Creation in the Green Deal Data Space / Introduction of Speakers – Dr. Stamatia Rizou (SLG) / Moderator
2. Towards the Data Space for a Sustainable Green Europe: The SAGE project – Richard Stevens (IDC)
3. EU Space Data for Smart Cities – Valeria Catalano (EUSPA)
4. Value Creation Foundations
   • Data-Driven Innovation in the European Data Space for Smart Communities contributing to GD – Nuria De Lama Sanchez (IDC) 
   • Harnessing datasets from key European repositories such as DestinE, Copernicus services, the Copernicus data spaces ecosystem, Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) for supporting scientific and commercial initiatives. – Dr. Vasileios Baousis (ECMWF)
5. Technological Enablers of GDDS
   • Leveraging Technologies for Data Management and Sharing to Foster Collaboration and Implement Data spaces – Gerasimos Antzoulatos (CERTH) & Ioannis Chrysakis (Netcompany-Intrasoft)
6. Data Value in Sustainability and Climate Reporting
   • ENFORCE: Citizen Empowerment for Environmental Regulatory compliance – Nikos Mellios (UTH)
   • Mainstreaming Sustainability Reporting: AI Tools for Climate and Sustainability Goals – Linda Kleemann  (GFA Consulting Group GmbH, Tolodata)
7. Panel Discussion: From Data Availability to Impact
   • Data readiness vs usability
   • Practical pathways to scale impact from environmental data
   • Lessons learned from real-world implementations across the EU  

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