European Data Union Strategy

European Union: “The strategy identifies three priority areas for action based on:

1. Scaling up access to data for AI to ensure our businesses have access to high-quality data needed for innovation
2. Streamlining data rules to give legal certainty to businesses and reduce compliance costs
3. Safeguarding the EU’s data sovereignty to strengthen our global position on international data flows

Scaling up access to data for AI

Flagship initiatives to address data bottlenecks:

• Launch the first data labs to scale up data availability and create links between data spaces and AI ecosystems – they will pool both private and public resources to make high-quality sectoral data available to companies, including SMEs, and researchers using AI and provide relevant data services for AI-driven innovation
• Scale up common European data spaces, supported by ongoing EU investment of around EUR 100 million, creating new data spaces across key sectors, including a defence data space.
• Explore horizontal enablers to boost the entire data economy. In particular, expanding high-value datasets under the Open Data Directive, making 30 million digitised cultural objects available for AI training, boosting the use of synthetic data and the EU’s production output…(More)”.