BAIDATA offers €15,000 to 10 organisations to boost data exchange

January 15, 2023

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The BAIDATA association has launched a voucher programme with the aim of giving ten Spanish and Portuguese organisations the opportunity to receive €15,000 in funding to boost innovation through data sharing and collaboration between companies.

The programme aims to help BAIDATA member companies to experiment, certify and operate data spaces by facilitating access to the infrastructures of the International Data Space Association (IDSA), a leading organisation in the development of the Single European Data Space, which has created the IDS standard to help organisations share data in a secure, reliable and sovereign way.

In this sense, the programme offers two distinct services: on the one hand, access to data sharing infrastructures between organisations, and on the other hand, access to infrastructures for the development and testing of new technologies for data sharing.

Applications for the programme will be open until 28 February 2023 at 17:00 CET. In addition, two informative webinars to learn about the voucher programme and the benefits of data spaces for organisations will be held in the coming weeks on 26 January and 26 February, respectively.

Data spaces are ecosystems where public and private actors exchange data under a common governance model. These data platforms are among the digitisation priorities of Spain and the EU through the European Data Strategy, reflected at national level in the Spain 2026 Digital Agenda and the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

BAIDATA is an initiative in collaboration with the International Data Space Association (IDSA) aimed at boosting the data economy and data sovereignty in Spain and Portugal. Its work includes training companies and disseminating the benefits of technologies related to the data economy, while helping its partners to find business opportunities and giving them access to the necessary infrastructures to implement shared data spaces. The association has so far more than 40 members including SMEs and large companies from a variety of sectors, as well as advanced research centres, industrial clusters, technology consultancies and public organisations from all over Spain and Portugal.