Horizon Europe AD4GD Project: All Data 4 Green Deal: An Integrated and Fair Approach to the Common European Data Space

The overall objective of AD4GD is to co-create and shape the European Green Deal Data Space as an open hub for FAIR data and standards-based services supporting key priorities in biodiversity, climate change, and pollution. The focus will be on interoperability concepts that overcome the semantic and technological gaps that currently prevent stakeholders and application domains from accessing data in a multidisciplinary and multi-scale manner, and that hinder the exploitation of services and processing platforms at different levels, such as cloud, high-performance computing (HPC), and edge computing.

This project will enable the combination and integration of remote sensing data, established research virtual environments and infrastructures, the Internet of Things (IoT), socioeconomic data, INSPIRE, and citizen science (CitSci) in an interoperable, scalable, and reliable manner. This will facilitate integration by including semantic mappings to different dominant standards and models that connect domain- and data source-specific semantic concepts, such as the Essential Variables framework (e.g., GCOS Essential Climate Variables, GEOBON Essential Biodiversity Variables), as well as applying machine learning and geospatial user feedback to ensure data quality, reliability, and trustworthiness and transform spatial scales.

The project will make data and services accessible to EC Knowledge Centers, the GEOSS portal, EOSC, and other scientific services as appropriate, ensuring the sustainability of results and actively promoting data accessibility for community stakeholders and citizen scientists. AD4GD will demonstrate and validate the approach in three pilots whose stakeholders include international organizations, scientists and researchers, citizens, decision-makers (e.g., public authorities), and Earth Observation (EO) solution developers. The pilots address selected priority areas of the Green Deal, including cross-domain components: zero pollution, biodiversity, and climate change.