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On March 8th, we celebrated the great Open Data Day, organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation Greece with the support of the IT and Electronic Systems Engineering Department of IHU and UPCAST Project, funded by the European Union. This year the event had the title...

Reflecting on the Data Spaces Symposium 2024: Insights from the Data Monetization Session On March 12th, 2024, during the first day of the highly anticipated Data Spaces Symposium, a compelling session on Data Monetization took center stage. This session, held as part...

In February 2024, our project joined a workshop together with the Graph-Massivizer Project and enRichMyData in Trysil, Norway. The workshop focused on key topics like data monetization, data sharing, data pipelines, and graph processing. Big thanks to SINTEF for...

The European Big Data Value Forum 2023, held in Valencia, Spain from the 25th to the 27th of October, marked a an important moment for the UPCAST team. Organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) of which IDC is a member of, the event included a diverse...

In September 2023,  our project organized the a one day event called “Thessaloniki Data Economy Day”. This event brought together professionals, experts, and enthusiasts to explore the role of data in our evolving world. The event kicked off a keynote session...

orderless Cyber 2023 Session on Operationalized Security and Privacy In a past session at the Borderless Cyber 2023 event, Dr. Mariza Koukovini from the Upcast project delivered a presentation on "Empowering Success through Operationalized Security and Privacy." The...

Our colleague, Tek Raj Chhetri from the University of Southampton, recently had the honor of participating in two prestigious events – KGSWC-2023 Winter School and the Pacific Rim International Workshop on Applied Knowledge Graphs. The heart of these gatherings...

On Thursday, November 30th, the "Open Climate Data Index" workshop of the municipalities of Thessaloniki was organized by the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering of International Hellenic University in collaboration with the Open Knowledge Foundation...

On 15th of June, during the official Open Knowledge Network Meeting Evangelos Chondrokostas delivered an insightful presentation about the objectives of the UPCAST project - in which the Open Knowledge Foundation Greece participates as a partner - as well as the four...

As part of the Data Week 2023 organized by BDVA, the UPCAST project organised a session titled “ Technological Enablers for the Next-Level Data Economy”. The session brought together four Horizon Europe projects (UPCAST, FAME, DATAMITE, and PISTIS) that built digital...