1. Towards EU big data economy Kimmo Rossi European Commission
Big Data Paris
4 April 2013

2. Directorate G - Media and Data
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
The Communication Networks, Content & Technology Directorate General (DG CONNECT)
Directorate G - Media and Data
G1: Converging Media and Content
G2: Creativity
G3: Data Value Chain
G4: Inclusion, Skills and Youth 
G5: Administration and Finance

3. Data in the Digital Agenda for Europe
Open data strategy
Publicly funded data should be available for all to use: unused potential of 40 billion EUR a year
Statistics, geo-information, companies registers, legal information, publicly funded research data
Data is everywhere (smart cities, cloud, eHealth etc.)

4. "Data Value Chain" vision
Create social and economic added value based on the intelligent use, management and re-use of data sources in Europe.
This will lead to:
- increased business intelligence and efficiency of private and public sectors
- world class applications
- new business opportunities involving SMEs

5. Open Data - Respect privacy!
Open data strategy
Modification of the Directive on the re-use of public sector information: broader scope, right of re-use
Open data portals: EC open data portal beta available (
LOD2 project:
Reuse of research publications & data: Commission communication July 2012: towards open research data
Open Data - Respect privacy!

6. Big Data and Research, the context
What has changed?
The 4 V's: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value
Different dimensions of the data value-chain
Data lifecycle: production, use, storage/preservation
Added value: data validation, aggregation and pre-processing, analysis and visualisation, added-value services (e.g. decision support systems, apps)
Is there a European data industry?

7. Funding Big Data in EU programmes
Past:
FP7 Call 8 – Objective 4.4 "Intelligent information management" – closed 17/01/2012 – 50 MEUR
Current:
FP7 Call 11 – Objective 4.2 "Scalable data analytics" – closes 16/04/2013 – 31 MEUR
Future:
Horizon 2020 – Big and smart Data – Work programme under preparation

8. Funding Big Data in FP7 (past)
FP7 Call 8 – Objective 4.4 "Intelligent information management" – closed 17/01/2012 – 50 MEUR - 17 projects
Some examples of funded projects:
BIG - Big Data Public Private Forum
AXLE - Advanced Analytics for EXtremely Large European Databases
BIOASQ - A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
GEOKNOW - Making the Web an Exploratory place for Geospatial Knowledge
LINKEDUP - Linking Web Data for Education Project
MEDIAMIXER - Community set-up and networking for the reMIXing of online MEDIA fragments
NEWSREADER - Building structured event indexes of large volumes of financial and economic data for decision making
SEMAGROW - Data intensive techniques to boost the real-time performance of global agricultural data infrastructures

9. ICT-2013.4.2 Scalable data analytics
Funding Big Data in FP7 (current)
ICT Scalable data analytics
Budget: 31M€ - Deadline 16 April 2013
Novel algorithms, fast-growing data types (e.g. 3D, genomics), non-traditional database architectures
2020 roadmap for hardware optimizations for data analytics
2020 roadmap for societal aspects (data markets, reuse, personal data privacy)

10. Outlook - Horizon 2020 Roadmap-based research
Integration of research & innovation to maximise impact
Big & smart data as an element in the Industrial leadership (research & innovation)
Smart = make sense of the (big) data, e.g. by deep analysis, language technology
Data cutting across Societal challenges 10

11. Conclusion ‘Big and smart' data has the future
Share, collect, make sense & deliver
Applications and services + re-use
Open data strategy: towards a better use of publicly funded data in Europe
Build a European data ecosystem

12. Thank you!