Medio ambiente

Promoting the data culture is a key objective at the national level that is also shared by the regional administrations. One of the ways to achieve this purpose is to award those solutions that have been developed with open datasets, an initiative that...

The concept of High-Value data (High-Value datasets) was introduced by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union 4 years ago, in Directive (EU) 2019/1024. In it, they were defined as a series of datasets with a high potential to...

Updated: 21/03/2024 On January 2023, the European Commission published a list of high-value datasets that public sector bodies must make available to the public within a maximum of 16 months. The main objective of establishing the list of high-value...

Open data is fundamental in the field of science. Open data facilitates scientific collaboration and enriches research by giving it greater depth. Thanks to this type of data, we can learn more about our environment and carry out more accurate analyses...

96 ideas from 33 countries. Those have been the proposals presented to the UE Datathon 2021, a competition organized by the Publications Office and the Presidency of the Council of the European Union to promote the use of open data as a basis for new...

The Cross-Forest project combines two areas of great interest to Europe, as set out in the Green Deal. On the one hand, the care and protection of the environment - in particular our forests-. On the other hand, the promotion of an interoperable European...

A symptom of the maturity of an open data ecosystem is the possibility of finding datasets and use cases across different sectors of activity. This is considered by the European Open Data Portal itself in its maturity index. The classification of data...

The European Data Portal (EDP) has presented its report "Copernicus data for the open data community", prepared by con.terra as part of the EDP consortium. As we have reported before, Copernicus is the European Union's Earth Observation program that...

Care for the environment is an aspect that has been of concern to a large part of society for several years now. It is clear that we have reached a turning point that makes us see the need to act as soon as possible to avoid further damaging our planet....

The environment is a concern and a matter of general interest for our society. We should not be surprised, therefore, by the numerous initiatives within the universe of open data for the publication of information related to the environment, both...