CEADS (Deploying and operating a European framework for the secure and trusted data space for agriculture)

The European Commission, through the Digital Europe programme and the European Data Strategy, aims to create Common European Data Spaces to stimulate innovation and build a thriving data economy, while upholding ethical and legal standards. These data spaces are crucial for advancing AI and Cloud to Edge computing, supported by legislation such as the Data Governance Act (DGA) and the Data Act (DA).

Among the 14 sectors, the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) focuses on the agri-food sector, integrating data, infrastructures, and governance and business models to facilitate secure data sharing. The preparatory AgriDataSpace project, in collaboration with the Data Space Support Centre, has already framed the necessary building blocks and roadmap scenarios. CEADS aims to deploy and operationalize this data space, ensuring secure and trusted data sharing for the agri-food sector, including public administrations. This will enhance economic, environmental, and societal value while maintaining high standards of privacy, security, and ethics.

The deployment of CEADS will adopt a lean multi-actor development approach, grounded in innovation ecosystem science and practice. This approach involves deploying the CEADS through 3 consecutive minimum viable product (MVP) cycles, including phases of co-design and adaptation, implementation and integration, testing and operation, and evaluation.

The project will conclude with a comprehensive roadmap and sustainability plan for the upscaling and consolidation of CEADS.