The potential of data sharing, particularly through Data Spaces, offers significant opportunities for the innovation community to address societal and business challenges. However, numerous obstacles must be navigated to effectively unlock this potential. This session aims to identify the critical challenges faced by industry and stakeholders in achieving seamless data sharing and leveraging Data Spaces across various sectors and domains. Furthermore, it will explore innovative strategies to overcome these obstacles. The workshop will involve various projects under the HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01-02 topic (CyclOps, DS2, CEDAR, NOUS and PLIADES) and engage interested stakeholders from the data and AI innovation community, with a strong emphasis on encouraging SME participation.

The workshop will explore the variety of profiles of users and stakeholders that can benefit from data sharing and Data Space initiatives, the expected added-value from these users, as well as their needs, starting from the insights obtained in different domains by the participant projects. It will be discussed how the bird-of-a-feather projects address these needs, to align the developments with the real-world evolving landscape and create a community of practice. Participants will identify barriers to delivering value and share innovative approaches to overcoming these obstacles. The workshop will foster idea generation and knowledge sharing using different methodologies and tools.

The workshop will be divided in three blocks to cover these topics. In each block, panellists will briefly share the findings of each project and then engage with the audience through live surveys to broaden the discussion. Finally it will also be discussed how the project solutions contribute to Data Spaces and how they map against the DSSC blueprint and its building blocks.

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