Project (public) deliverables

D1.1 - PROJECT HANDBOOK (M1)

• This report contains information and guidelines to consortium members on project implementation and records internal project procedures. It describes the project as such, the management structures and work methodology.

D2.1 - CHALLENGE-LED SYSTEM MAPS (M12)

• The deliverable lays the groundwork for the identification of the relevant connections between climate challenges, policy processes and the need for evidence (e.g. climate/environmental data and indicators) informing policy and supporting decision making according to different stakeholder perspectives. 

D2.1 - CHALLENGE-LED SYSTEM MAPS (M12)

• The deliverable lays the groundwork for the identification of the relevant connections between climate challenges, policy processes and the need for evidence (e.g. climate/environmental data and indicators) informing policy and supporting decision making according to different stakeholder perspectives. 

D2.4 - GUIDELINES FOR POLICY CO-DESIGN PROCESSES (M12)

• This report presents the first results and findings of the initial analysis made of current policy co-design methods and models applied in the four pilot cities, in support of their local Green Deal policies. Such insight into how these four cities are dealing with co-designing their local Green Deal policies helps us to develop more effective and valuable guidelines on policy co-design models and methods, which will be tested and validated as part of the USAGE pilots.

D2.5 - GUIDELINES FOR POLICY CO-DESIGN PROCESSES (M24)

• This report presents an overview and analysis of already existing guidance resources, with the aim to prepare and support the development of the USAGE guidelines. Existing resources on co-design, co-creation and stakeholder engagement could provide inspiration on aspects and elements to be included in the USAGE guidelines. Based on a mapping and screening of research and innovation projects dealing with (policy) co-design, co-creation and/or stakeholder engagement, twenty existing guidance resources were selected for further analysis. In this systematic analysis of existing resources, we looked into aspects such as proposed stages in the co-design process, key principles, the relevance of data and/or technology and proposed methods for policy co-design.

D2.7 - LEARNING BY DOING INTERVENTIONS (M24)

• The established methodology has been already tested in the first three learning-by-doing activities started during the first year of the project, as documented in the deliverable. Based on the outcomes from the first three learning-by-doing activities, the methodology proved to be valid and effective. Several lessons have been learnt and reported, some more generic, related to the overall methodology, others related to the specific content of the activity.

D3.1 - STATUS QUO ASSESSMENT (M10)

• The document provides a broad overview of the architecture, systems, and data landscape currently deployed and in use in each of the USAGE pilot cities: Ferrara, Zaragoza, Graz, and Leuven. These European cities exhibit diverse characteristics, such as varying population, geographical location, climate conditions, and technological/non-technological resources, but each face similar but specific local climate challenges.

D3.2 – DATA SPACE PROTOTYPE AND REPORT – FIRST VERSION (M16)

• The document reports a first analysis of the available proposals of conceptualisations, principles, building blocks and solutions and critically considers them until integrating the available and well-affirmed standards into the newer concepts, for obtaining an updated framework into which identifying the data space components for USAGE. 

D3.3- DATA SPACE PROTOTYPE AND REPORT (M24)

• The Deliverable D3.3 complements the review proposed in D3.2 about the data spaces building blocks. The work on the technical building blocks stack as proposed by the Data Space Support Centre was refined, tested and integrated in an extended collaboration including external stakeholders, from the sister project All Data for Green Deal (AD4GD) as well as from other standardisation and interoperability expert groups. Moreover, the Business and Organisational building blocks were considered and relevant standards and solutions reviewed for each of them, based on the updated versions of the Data Space Support Centre Blueprint, published in the meantime.

D3.4 – LEGAL CERTAINTY THROUGH LINKED DATA – FIRST  VERSION (M18)

• The current document, serving as the first version of the deliverable, analyses the traditional means for publishing copyrighted material under a specific set of conditions for re-use (mainly permissions, restrictions, and obligations), and proposes mechanisms that data spaces can implement to achieve the same goal. With the introduction of provenance chains, this document lays out strategies for achieving legal certainty (i.e., unambiguous understanding of the allowed and disallowed actions for a given piece of data) from the perspective of a data consumer, whether it is a human being or a machine, even when working with several different dataset published by different authors.

D4.1 – OFF THE SHELF SOLUTIONS (M24)

• This annex to D4.1 - Off the Shelf Solution, has the intention to explain the rationale behind USAGE data and tool reuse approach and practices as well as paving the way to the upcoming deliverable, D4.2 - USAGE innovative tools, where the new tools developed for USAGE use cases will be described in detail. This document firstly describes the core of USAGE reusability: i) GeoNetwork, a state of the art open source cataloguing platform for spatially referenced resources and ii) the data and tool metadata templates built within USAGE on top of it. Then the description of metadata harvesting for each of the pilot cities. Five of the most relevant datasets are reported for their reuse in the Use Cases defined in D3.2 for the Local Green Deal priorities for each pilots. Section 4 reports tools existing prior to USAGE project that can contribute to the European Green Deal priority actions, most of them, previously developed by partners, have been reused in multiple Use Cases.

D4.2 – USAGE INNOVATIVE TOOLS (M32)

• The tool and algorithms reported in section 4 allows for the production of the related products with ad-hoc adaptation to the USAGE pilots or to newly adopting cities in a use case fashion. However, a large part of the effort in making the Urban Data Space fruitful consists in building up the governance mechanisms for the Urban Data Space, as well as the workflow for data management within the Urban Data Space Board members and the identification and specification of the Use Cases. Another relevant effort in the reuse of the Urban Data Space as a whole is the established pipeline of decisions and procedures in deploying tools and data for the realisation of new use cases within the Urban Data Space.

D5.1 - USAGE VALIDATION CRITERIA (M12)

• The deliverable describes the methodology developed to derive a unique set of indicators suitable (i) to validate the urban data spaces deployed in the four pilot cities, as well as urban data spaces that have been/will be deployed in other cities and (ii) to validate the achievement of the project expected outcomes and impacts declared in the proposal.

D5.2 - USAGE VALIDATION DASHBOARD (M24)

• The deliverable describes the methodology developed to derive a unique set of indicators suitable (i) to validate the urban data spaces deployed in the four pilot cities, as well as urban data spaces that have been/will be deployed in other cities and (ii) to validate the achievement of the project expected outcomes and impacts declared in the proposal.

D6.1 - DISSEMINATION AND COMMUNICATION PLAN (M6)

• The plan is an operational and concrete tool, with a long-term vision and define how to develop the dissemination and communication medium, as website, social and media pack.