Members and initiatives

VTT’s Data Spaces Innovation Lab is an easy path forward for businesses that want to take part in this huge transition and opportunity. Based on IDSA reference testbed components, the Data Space Innovation Lab facilitates the testing of data economy concepts and preservation of data sovereignty in data sharing between companies and organisations.

Data Spaces Innovation Lab

DS2 is a three-year project with 17 partners around Europe. DS2 is on a mission to break down industry silos and unlock collaborative innovation by revolutionising cross-sector data sharing by developing solutions for data spaces interoperability. This will empower industries to facilitate better collaboration across sectors, enabling actors to work together effortlessly to share, access, and utilise data for new applications, tailored services, and seamless experiences to companies’ needs. 

AgriDataSpace & Potato-X presentation from 1001 Lakes (19.6.2024)

The Traffic Flow Data Space project aims to improve urban mobility by establishing a data space based on the European Data Space for Smart Communities (DS4SSCC), technical specifications, and governance structure. The data space will integrate information from traffic and environment sectors. Forum Virium Helsinki is taking part in implementing the data space together with the City of Helsinki.

As part of the implementation of the Digikompassi project, the Ministry of Transport and Communications wants to develop a tool called the Data Spaces Roadmap to support the collaboration of data space projects. The roadmap outlines the high-level implementation stages of prioritised data spaces and any possible interdependencies. Additionally, it should support the creation of a shared situational awareness for data space projects, opportunities for collaboration, and, for example, the application for EU project funding.

The Public Sector Data Space group accelerates the development of life event and business event-based service suites as mentioned in the Finnish digital compass (national digitalisation strategy). The group brings together relevant public and private sector actors so that commonly understood information can flow seamlessly between different stakeholders. The group promotes data reuse, encouraged through data product thinking.

The objective of this project is to develop and deploy a cloud to edge infrastructure for educations and skills capable of connecting services and data, enbeling decentralized data sharing and to make this data space ecosystem accessible to all.

This use case presents a collaboration between different participants, including Finnish potato farmers, an agricultural machinery manufacturer, the Belgian agricultural data ecosystem, and Finnish agricultural ecosystem builders. The aim is to share data on all aspects of potato farming – from planning, ploughing, planting, and maintenance to harvesting. The data, which includes soil quality, location, yield, and machinery use, is shared between two different data ecosystems. The ultimate goal is to create new business services and boost profitability and productivity for farmers. This will be achieved by establishing standards, business rules, governance systems, and connectors to facilitate data sharing between the two ecosystems.

AgriDataSpace & Potato-X presentation from 1001 Lakes (19.6.2024)

Fintraffic Vessel Traffic Services is proactively developing new digital service packages. One of these is the upcoming NEMO maritime traffic notification service – data from NEMO will be utilised in a variety of processes, such as monitoring the border crossings of persons, maritime search and rescue, overseeing the transport of hazardous substances, collecting fairway dues, port operation, safety and security surveillance, planning port state control and monitoring infectious diseases. Thanks to the new system, notification data on port visits by merchant ships will be smoothly sent to many different recipients on a centralised basis through a single system.

The Location Europe data integration platform provides harmonised location data from different countries across Europe. We are able to integrate high-value datasets together and also add other than location-based data. The platform is operated under the Location Innovation Hub (LIH) and was originally developed in the GeoE3 project. The main idea is to provide testing possibilities for LIH clients.

Gaia-X aims to develop and build a common data infrastructure that allows data to flow or be accessed within the European single market and beyond. The aim is to share data reliably and fairly so individuals and businesses can unlock its full value and create new services. 
Gaia-X Finland, co-ordinated by NIIS, is Finland’s national Gaia-X hub. We work with Finnish companies to seize the opportunities presented by Gaia-X and contribute to co-creating future European data spaces. There are many opportunities for Finnish companies to participate.

Currently, the traffic flow in ports is not optimised, and shipping companies lack an easy way to share operational data with other stakeholders, such as ports, other shipping companies, and ships. Ships rush at full speed to the vicinity of the continent, waiting until a docking space is confirmed from the port. This rushing increases fuel consumption, environmental impact, and transportation costs. To tackle these problems, Fintraffic coordinates the development of the Finnish maritime data space. The development started through two pilot projects that Sitra co-financed and continues, with in an EU project where Fintraffic aims to expand the NEMO data management system with data space capabilities.

Maritime Data Space as an enabler for Virtual Port Arrivals

FIN-CLARIN is a consortium formed by Finnish universities, CSC, and the Institute for the Languages of Finland. It assists humanities researchers in using, refining, preserving, and sharing research data. The Language Bank, which provides data and tools, is part of FIN-CLARIN’s service package. The University of Helsinki is responsible for data acquisition, tool development, and training activities, while CSC is responsible for technical maintenance.

PrepDSpace4Mobility was an EU-funded Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that contributed to the development of the common European mobility data space by mapping existing data ecosystems, identifying gaps and overlaps within, and proposing common building blocks and governance frameworks found in existing data space architectures.

The Data Space for Skills (DS4Skills) was a 1-year EU-funded project preparing for the development of an open and trusted European Data Space for Skills. The project involved 14 partners from industry, education, and data ecosystem sectors.

The DataMust project studies a local cell-based edge data marketplace concept that provides a vertically agnostic approach with high horizontal connectivity. This concept will enable the building of federated service-based solutions that bring all urban actors together to productise, enrich, share, refine, and trade data to maximise the Sustainable Development Goals’ impact.

The Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) is a project funded by the European Union. Three Finnish organisations, VTT, Sitra, and MyData Global, are full partners. The project will define a common set of rules to support data space work and create a digital support centre for data spaces.

DSSC intro (29.1.2025)

The ESG DataHub ecosystem creates data-based tools for automated CO2 calculation and reporting, as well as shared information standards for the entire built environment ecosystem.

CIRPASS is preparing the ground for the gradual piloting and deployment of the Digital Product Passports, focusing on developing a roadmap for prototypes in three value chains: electronics, batteries and textiles.

CIRPASS presentation from IOXIO (19.6.2024)

The goal of the Data Economy program is to encourage Finnish companies to develop international business based on the utilization and sharing of data. The program will continue until the end of 2027 and its goal is to accelerate challenging development projects related to the data economy with up to 135 million euros.

The AgriFood Data Space Finland consortium (AFDSF) was established in 2020. Its purpose is to enable the consortium’s companies to transition to a data space in line with the European data strategy and to develop digital capabilities to meet future needs in collaboration with other consortium members.

AgriDataSpace project aims to pave the way for a European data space for agriculture that facilitates data sharing, processing, and analysis in a secured, trusted, transparent and responsible manner to create new opportunities for monitoring and optimising natural resource use stimulating data-driven innovations.

DataFinland is a production grade dataspace environment that supports sharing productized data easily between public and private sector stakeholders with different levels of trust.

The DataFinland environment is currently operated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. DataFinaland is associated with testbed.fi which supports testing and piloting of data sharing use cases for any stakeholder freely.

DS2 is a three-year project with 17 partners around Europe. DS2 is on a mission to break down industry silos and unlock collaborative innovation by revolutionising cross-sector data sharing by developing solutions for data spaces interoperability. This will empower industries to facilitate better collaboration across sectors, enabling actors to work together effortlessly to share, access, and utilise data for new applications, tailored services, and seamless experiences to companies’ needs.

Responsible competiteveness through data economy skills and data spaces

In this joint project of TIEKE and 1001 Lakes, we train SMEs in the Uusimaa region about data economy and data spaces. We help the companies of electronics and electrical equipment industry to identify their own data maturity and realize the potential of data economy and data spaces. For businesses of the ICT sector, we offer training especially about providing technical solutions for data spaces.

DataVa presentation 24.10.24

DataYield – agile data management from farming machines and services to new business -project aims to find ways to support end-users (farmers) new and sustainable business development in a way of agile usage of farm data. This scattered farm data is currently mainly used and exploited by 3rd parties like machine vendors, instead of farmers themselves, who are lacking ways to take advantage of their own data.

Project develops and demonstrates new ways and practical technical tools to manage, authorize and safely transfer the data from farming machines and sensors to farmer-owned and authorized data storages. These local, farmer governed data spaces and storages can be connected to European data spaces and ecosystems by using the demonstrated data intermediation (DISP) services. Farmers data storage will locally act as a centralized, but at the same time decentralized multi-actor accessible data space and sharing tool for new business development.

European Tourism Data Space (DEPLOYTOUR) is a 3-year project co-funded under the EU Digital Europe Programme. It is a strategic initiative to boost the competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience of the tourism sector by deploying a trusted Common European Tourism Data Space (ETDS). Lapland UAS is implementing one of the 5 pilots of the project.

VTT’s Data Spaces Innovation Lab is an easy path forward for businesses that want to take part in this huge transition and opportunity. Based on IDSA reference testbed components, the Data Space Innovation Lab facilitates the testing of data economy concepts and preservation of data sovereignty in data sharing between companies and organisations.

Data Spaces Innovation Lab

DS2 is a three-year project with 17 partners around Europe. DS2 is on a mission to break down industry silos and unlock collaborative innovation by revolutionising cross-sector data sharing by developing solutions for data spaces interoperability. This will empower industries to facilitate better collaboration across sectors, enabling actors to work together effortlessly to share, access, and utilise data for new applications, tailored services, and seamless experiences to companies’ needs. 

AgriDataSpace & Potato-X presentation from 1001 Lakes (19.6.2024)

The Traffic Flow Data Space project aims to improve urban mobility by establishing a data space based on the European Data Space for Smart Communities (DS4SSCC), technical specifications, and governance structure. The data space will integrate information from traffic and environment sectors. Forum Virium Helsinki is taking part in implementing the data space together with the City of Helsinki.

As part of the implementation of the Digikompassi project, the Ministry of Transport and Communications wants to develop a tool called the Data Spaces Roadmap to support the collaboration of data space projects. The roadmap outlines the high-level implementation stages of prioritised data spaces and any possible interdependencies. Additionally, it should support the creation of a shared situational awareness for data space projects, opportunities for collaboration, and, for example, the application for EU project funding.

The Public Sector Data Space group accelerates the development of life event and business event-based service suites as mentioned in the Finnish digital compass (national digitalisation strategy). The group brings together relevant public and private sector actors so that commonly understood information can flow seamlessly between different stakeholders. The group promotes data reuse, encouraged through data product thinking.

The objective of this project is to develop and deploy a cloud to edge infrastructure for educations and skills capable of connecting services and data, enbeling decentralized data sharing and to make this data space ecosystem accessible to all.

This use case presents a collaboration between different participants, including Finnish potato farmers, an agricultural machinery manufacturer, the Belgian agricultural data ecosystem, and Finnish agricultural ecosystem builders. The aim is to share data on all aspects of potato farming – from planning, ploughing, planting, and maintenance to harvesting. The data, which includes soil quality, location, yield, and machinery use, is shared between two different data ecosystems. The ultimate goal is to create new business services and boost profitability and productivity for farmers. This will be achieved by establishing standards, business rules, governance systems, and connectors to facilitate data sharing between the two ecosystems.

AgriDataSpace & Potato-X presentation from 1001 Lakes (19.6.2024)

Fintraffic Vessel Traffic Services is proactively developing new digital service packages. One of these is the upcoming NEMO maritime traffic notification service – data from NEMO will be utilised in a variety of processes, such as monitoring the border crossings of persons, maritime search and rescue, overseeing the transport of hazardous substances, collecting fairway dues, port operation, safety and security surveillance, planning port state control and monitoring infectious diseases. Thanks to the new system, notification data on port visits by merchant ships will be smoothly sent to many different recipients on a centralised basis through a single system.

The Location Europe data integration platform provides harmonised location data from different countries across Europe. We are able to integrate high-value datasets together and also add other than location-based data. The platform is operated under the Location Innovation Hub (LIH) and was originally developed in the GeoE3 project. The main idea is to provide testing possibilities for LIH clients.

Gaia-X aims to develop and build a common data infrastructure that allows data to flow or be accessed within the European single market and beyond. The aim is to share data reliably and fairly so individuals and businesses can unlock its full value and create new services. 
Gaia-X Finland, co-ordinated by NIIS, is Finland’s national Gaia-X hub. We work with Finnish companies to seize the opportunities presented by Gaia-X and contribute to co-creating future European data spaces. There are many opportunities for Finnish companies to participate.

Currently, the traffic flow in ports is not optimised, and shipping companies lack an easy way to share operational data with other stakeholders, such as ports, other shipping companies, and ships. Ships rush at full speed to the vicinity of the continent, waiting until a docking space is confirmed from the port. This rushing increases fuel consumption, environmental impact, and transportation costs. To tackle these problems, Fintraffic coordinates the development of the Finnish maritime data space. The development started through two pilot projects that Sitra co-financed and continues, with in an EU project where Fintraffic aims to expand the NEMO data management system with data space capabilities.

Maritime Data Space as an enabler for Virtual Port Arrivals

FIN-CLARIN is a consortium formed by Finnish universities, CSC, and the Institute for the Languages of Finland. It assists humanities researchers in using, refining, preserving, and sharing research data. The Language Bank, which provides data and tools, is part of FIN-CLARIN’s service package. The University of Helsinki is responsible for data acquisition, tool development, and training activities, while CSC is responsible for technical maintenance.

PrepDSpace4Mobility was an EU-funded Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that contributed to the development of the common European mobility data space by mapping existing data ecosystems, identifying gaps and overlaps within, and proposing common building blocks and governance frameworks found in existing data space architectures.

The Data Space for Skills (DS4Skills) was a 1-year EU-funded project preparing for the development of an open and trusted European Data Space for Skills. The project involved 14 partners from industry, education, and data ecosystem sectors.

The DataMust project studies a local cell-based edge data marketplace concept that provides a vertically agnostic approach with high horizontal connectivity. This concept will enable the building of federated service-based solutions that bring all urban actors together to productise, enrich, share, refine, and trade data to maximise the Sustainable Development Goals’ impact.

The Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) is a project funded by the European Union. Three Finnish organisations, VTT, Sitra, and MyData Global, are full partners. The project will define a common set of rules to support data space work and create a digital support centre for data spaces.

DSSC intro (29.1.2025)

The ESG DataHub ecosystem creates data-based tools for automated CO2 calculation and reporting, as well as shared information standards for the entire built environment ecosystem.

CIRPASS is preparing the ground for the gradual piloting and deployment of the Digital Product Passports, focusing on developing a roadmap for prototypes in three value chains: electronics, batteries and textiles.

CIRPASS presentation from IOXIO (19.6.2024)

The goal of the Data Economy program is to encourage Finnish companies to develop international business based on the utilization and sharing of data. The program will continue until the end of 2027 and its goal is to accelerate challenging development projects related to the data economy with up to 135 million euros.

The AgriFood Data Space Finland consortium (AFDSF) was established in 2020. Its purpose is to enable the consortium’s companies to transition to a data space in line with the European data strategy and to develop digital capabilities to meet future needs in collaboration with other consortium members.

AgriDataSpace project aims to pave the way for a European data space for agriculture that facilitates data sharing, processing, and analysis in a secured, trusted, transparent and responsible manner to create new opportunities for monitoring and optimising natural resource use stimulating data-driven innovations.

DataFinland is a production grade dataspace environment that supports sharing productized data easily between public and private sector stakeholders with different levels of trust.

The DataFinland environment is currently operated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. DataFinaland is associated with testbed.fi which supports testing and piloting of data sharing use cases for any stakeholder freely.

DS2 is a three-year project with 17 partners around Europe. DS2 is on a mission to break down industry silos and unlock collaborative innovation by revolutionising cross-sector data sharing by developing solutions for data spaces interoperability. This will empower industries to facilitate better collaboration across sectors, enabling actors to work together effortlessly to share, access, and utilise data for new applications, tailored services, and seamless experiences to companies’ needs.

Responsible competiteveness through data economy skills and data spaces

In this joint project of TIEKE and 1001 Lakes, we train SMEs in the Uusimaa region about data economy and data spaces. We help the companies of electronics and electrical equipment industry to identify their own data maturity and realize the potential of data economy and data spaces. For businesses of the ICT sector, we offer training especially about providing technical solutions for data spaces.

DataVa presentation 24.10.24

DataYield – agile data management from farming machines and services to new business -project aims to find ways to support end-users (farmers) new and sustainable business development in a way of agile usage of farm data. This scattered farm data is currently mainly used and exploited by 3rd parties like machine vendors, instead of farmers themselves, who are lacking ways to take advantage of their own data.

Project develops and demonstrates new ways and practical technical tools to manage, authorize and safely transfer the data from farming machines and sensors to farmer-owned and authorized data storages. These local, farmer governed data spaces and storages can be connected to European data spaces and ecosystems by using the demonstrated data intermediation (DISP) services. Farmers data storage will locally act as a centralized, but at the same time decentralized multi-actor accessible data space and sharing tool for new business development.

European Tourism Data Space (DEPLOYTOUR) is a 3-year project co-funded under the EU Digital Europe Programme. It is a strategic initiative to boost the competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience of the tourism sector by deploying a trusted Common European Tourism Data Space (ETDS). Lapland UAS is implementing one of the 5 pilots of the project.