Europe’s digital transformation is deeply dependent on the ability to create, manage, share, and reuse data efficiently, securely, and sustainably across sectors. However, the current landscape of data management remains fragmented, with limited interoperability between different sectors, organizations, and technologies. This fragmentation prevents the full realization of the value that data can bring to key technological domains such as AI, robotics, and advanced digital services. Without the capacity to link, share, and analyse data across diverse environments, innovation is slowed, operational efficiency is reduced, and the potential benefits for society, the environment, and the economy remain largely underexploited.
PLIADES addresses these challenges by developing a novel data integration framework that builds upon state-of-art architectures, extending them with advanced elements to solve essential challenges in data creation, management, and sharing. PLIADES focuses on optimizing the entire data lifecycle, including green data creation and storage, data ownership, discovery, sharing, reuse, and responsible disposal. By leveraging AI-driven technologies, the project will enable the seamless linking and interoperability of multiple data spaces, transforming how data is used and shared across sectors. The framework will be deployed and validated through six use cases across five data spaces: mobility, healthcare, green deal, energy, and industrial. PLIADES will extend data spaces to cover full lifecycles, enhanced by AI-based integration. AI brokers will suggest suitable data spaces by understanding personalized needs and context, saving time and costs when accessing distributed, sovereign sources. The project will also design and test training and support schemes to ease adoption of new standards and architectures. By combining data from multiple domains, PLIADES will foster innovation, strengthen the EU economy, and improve quality of life. The aim is to validate data space integration by building meaningful aggregations that deliver insights and support decision-making.
