The study “New technologies and digitisation: opportunities and challenges for the social economy and social enterprises” sets out to explore how the rising importance of the social economy in Europe is facing the challenges of digital transformation. It focuses on whether, why, how, and to what...
On a national level, more and more European Union Member States are recognising the potential value of Open Data and are acting upon it. Open Data portals are in place, increasingly backed by solid Open Data policies. But it is not only the national level that matters. For a successful national ...
Inclusiveness on all levels underpins SwafS. We need science education for all, gender equality in our organisations, ethics and integrity embedded in research, communication we can trust, open science and ultimately place citizens at the core to ensure excellent Research and Innovation to tackl...
This case study reports activities performed by Research Data Alliance (RDA), an international grassroots organisation that promotes international collaboration and global sharing mechanisms to remove social and technical barriers to research data sharing and reuse. Drivers, impacts and barriers...
The Research, Innovation and Science Expert (RISE) Group published a report on 'Europe's future: open innovation, open science and open to the world' in May 2017. Building on this work, the RISE and ESIR expert groups met with independent think tanks in the field of research and innovation from ...
The challenges our society currently faces, ranging from natural disasters to traffic congestion, are of a scale and complexity that traditional policy tools cannot always address. However, today’s digital revolution offers several innovative tools that can be used by governments in providing fo...
Data portals are intrinsically enmeshed with the idea of open data. Before Directive 2013/37/EU encouraged governments to open their public sector information to the public as open data, there was very little need for a place to which they could promote their data, and where prospective users co...
The present report sheds light into the economic benefits and dives deeper into the impact of Open Data at both macro and micro-economic levels. In doing so, it breaks down the broader pool of ‘data’ into Open (Government) Data and privately held data that is of public interest. It looks at the ...