Francesco Barbato - Programme Officer- EU policies, DG CONNECT Unit G1 – Data Policy and Innovation – European Commission

1. Digital
Single Market
Boost 4.0 Kick-off
European Data Infrastructure
Big Data
Francesco Barbato - Programme Officer
European Commission

2. Policy context - history
• Council conclusions of Oct 2013 called for EU action to provide
the right framework conditions for a single market for big data
and cloud computing
• Towards a Thriving Data-Driven Economy COM(2014)442 –
framework conditions for a data-based economy in the EU –
mandate for the PPP
• A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe COM(2015)192, Third
Pillar: launch of a Free Flow of Data Initiative
• Digitising of European Industry COM(2016)180 – Big Data is an
important contributor/element in the DEI
• Communication: Building a European Data Economy - COM(2017)
9 final, adopted on 10/01/2017

3. Policy developments

4. Strategic objectives
I. EU leadership in Big Data technologies through
increased investments
II. Create a data market
III. Create a thriving data economy – engine for
growth and jobs
IV. To ensure that any industry in Europe can fully
benefit from digital innovations to upgrade its
products, improve its processes and adapt its
business models to the digital transition

5. H2020-ICT Big Data WP ICT 15
(2016-2017) – Lighthouse Projects
Large Scale Pilot Actions in data intensive sectors
involving key European industrial actors.
Their objective is to demonstrate how industrial
sectors will be transformed by putting big data
technologies at their core.
The Large Scale Pilot actions are meant to serve as
best practice examples to be transferred to other
sectors.

6. H2020-ICT Big Data WP ICT 15
(2016-2017) – Lighthouse Projects
Transforming Transport (TT)
- transport and logistics
DataBio
- agriculture, fisheries, forestry
BigMedilytics
- health
Boost 4.0
- manufaturing

7. Big Data Value PPP - characteristics
 Industry-driven – because it needs to mobilise and
transform (both IT and user) industries in order to break a
new path to growth and jobs
 Broad and horizontal – because data challenges appear
in most industrial and societal domains – need to achieve
synergies and create links with user industries, other PPPs,
Societal Challenges, national and regional initiatives
 Open and inclusive – the PPP needs to be representative,
credible and have critical mass. New members are
welcome. It is not necessary to be a member of the PPP to
apply to Horizon 2020 Big Data calls.

8. Who does what in the Partnership?
 Framework conditions
 EC: regulatory framework, policy development, synergies with other
policy areas (e.g. privacy, security, health...)
 private side: data skills, policy support, technology support (e.g.
privacy-preserving technologies), experimentation facilities
 Community building
 EC: reaching out to new (user) communities: e.g. Societal Challenges,
Public sector; clustering projects; info and networking events
 private side: industrial & academic community building, mobilisation,
events, collective road-mapping & strategic planning (SRIA)
 Technology basis, infrastructures
 EC: seed investment as basis for leverage, infrastructural support (via
Cloud, HPC, IoT etc. actions)
 private side: leveraged investment, research & innovation through
collaborative projects;

9. Broadly disseminate digital
innovations for all:
Setting up a pan-European network
of Digital Innovation Hubs
Strengthen competitiveness by
developing partnerships &
platforms
A regulatory framework adapted
to the digitisation of industry
Data: flow, access, exploitation safety,
responsibility ("liability)
Prepare Europeans for the
digital age
Training, education, new work
environment
A framework for the
coordination of national
& European initiatives
DEI initiative: 5 lines of actions

10. Boost 4.0
Establish a set of European big data light-
house smart connected factories
Adoption by Industry 4.0 of big data and
advanced analytics platforms
Maximize Commercial Impact
Visibility, Mobilisation, Standardization

11. Thank you
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