EU Commission launches initiative for secure and trustworthy European Data market

Data sharing shapes the economic and societal future of Europe and bears huge potentials, but also comes with risks and apprehensions. The EU Horizon 2020 project TRUSTS - Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space is established to identify and overcome legal, ethical, and technical challenges of cross-border data markets by creating a secure and trustworthy European Data Market. Mark de Reuver and Anneke Zuiderwijk of TU Delft are involved in this project.

Keeping ahead 
For Europe to keep up with big tech and global supply chains in the AI age, a functioning European data economy is essential. European organisations and companies will need to adopt data-driven innovation and digital transformation to keep up with international competition and global supply chains. These must however be based on European values. Within the TRUSTS project current challenges are identified e.g. on standardisation, interoperability, intellectual property, data protection and privacy. The project not only identifies challenges, but will also test them in realistic scenarios to establish framework conditions for the European Data Market.