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2025, 10 April
The VALORADA project is pleased to announce a new series of interactive capacity-building workshops designed to empower policymakers, local and regional authorities, and relevant stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to navigate the evolving landscape of digital governance, data spaces, and green innovation procurement.
here you can discover more!
2025, 20 February
Using Climate Data for Decision Making: The Leuven Climate Data Event
On Februari 13th, KU Leuven organised their USAGE-project event to show the current status of the project to local stakeholders.
here you can discover how it went
2025, 9 February
New Airbone acquisition for the Leuven Pilot
🌍📊 In late summer 2024, an aerial survey was conducted over the city of Leuven (size of about 57 km²) to collect data using multiple airborne sensors simultaneously. This initiative, as part of ongoing climate adaptation projects, aims to acquire data for geospatial and environmental analysis, helping identify areas in the city where nature-based solutions can be implemented.
Read more on the latest update here.
2025, 9 January
Towards the final version of challenge-led system maps
🌍📊 During the USAGE journey of designing and developing urban green deal data spaces (UGDDS) in the four pilot cities of Ferrara, Graz, Leuven, and Zaragoza, we promoted a sociotechnical system view to frame local climate challenges from a policy, data, and stakeholders’ perspective.
At the end of the second year, we add another element in the system maps of each pilot city: community stakeholders' needs and experience with climate data sharing and reuse
Read more on the latest update here.
2024, 17 December
Usage Project Wins Third Place in "Future 4 Cities" Award for Climate Action
🎉 Usage project wins third place in "Future 4 Cities" award for innovative climate action, recognizing impactful citizen science engagement campaigns and promoting data-driven urban sustainability solutions.🌍📊 #Sustainability #ClimateAction #CitizenScience
read more here
2024, December 1
🌎 USAGE's coordinator Oscar Corcho presented the application of artificial intelligence in USAGE at a Geospatial Intelligence conference in Zaragoza.
At a GEOINT conference in Zaragoza, Oscar Corcho presented the role of AI and geospatial data within the USAGE project. 🌍🤖 #GeospatialIntelligence #USAGE
On November 21, a conference on Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Territory, and Defense took place in Zaragoza. The goal of the event was to bring together speakers and attendees interested in the field to create a reference center for debate on geospatial intelligence, aimed at supporting decision-making processes in various sectors of our society. The event was attended by personnel from the armed forces, university professors and heads of GEOINT-related areas who presented their work and analysis on the use of artificial intelligence in the field of defense, territorial planning and management, legislation and geospatial field. During the conference, our coordinator, Oscar Corcho, presented the application of AI and geospatial data in the USAGE project, as part of the discussion titled "The Contribution of AI in the Geospatial Field."
2024, 30 November
The City Council of Zaragoza, in collaboration between @USAGE_project and @unizar, launches the first version of its Surface & Air Temperature Viewer! 🌡️
🔍 Local data from Zaragoza enables mapping heat islands and vulnerabilities, boosting smarter policies to reduce inequalities.
Read more here
2024, October 31
USAGE @ AI, Data and Robotics Forum
🌎 Join USAGE at the AI, Data and Robotics Forum, #ADRF24 in Eindhoven!
We’re excited to announce that USAGE is making waves at the upcoming #ADRF24! During the expert panel, the Lisbon Council, partner of the project, will share insights and innovative solutions for leveraging data to tackle local climate challenges.
📆 AI, Data and Robotics Forum, Eindhoven, NL
Date: November 4, 2024
Time: 14.00 to 15.30 CET
Join us for “How do we use data to solve real problems” expert panel discussion.
2024, November 2
USAGE @ Smart City Expo World Congress
🌎 Join USAGE at the Smart City World Expo Congress, #SCEWC24, in Barcelona!
Our partner the Lisbon Council will be on the ground sharing insights, connecting with experts, and showcasing our latest breakthroughs.
📆 Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, ES
Date: November 5, 2024
Time: 11.30 - 13.00 CET
We will be presenting at the Porto booth (Gran Via, Hall 3, Level 0, Street C, Stand 137)
Stay tuned as we bring the future of climate data for Local Green Deals to life and join global innovators in building better, more resilient cities!
2024, 9-11 October
USAGE plenary meeting in Graz
Project plenary meeting hosted by Graz Municipality to discuss the solutions deployed and challenges related to Urban Data Spaces in Graz as well as in the other three pilot cities.
2024, September
Citizen Science initiative in Ferrara, Italy
Citizens collected air temperature data using simple and accessible technologies. The idea is that this data can be used to co-design urban policies.
2024, July 30
Citizen Science Weather Stations Network in Leuven, Belgium.
Crowdsourced air temperature data for the measurement of micro-climate in urban areas.
2024, July 13
The lack of relevant metadata in geospatial data prevents the identification of useful datasets. The Sister Projects of the GDDS Action Group are comparing the metadata concepts used by each project towards a joint policy brief on metadata requirements for the GDDS.
2024, July 12
The USAGE project continues its exploration of the policy and data context in four pilot cities, surveying stakeholders of the urban ecosystem coming from the private sector, third sector and academia. The focus is on leveraging quality data and engaging diverse stakeholders to address climate challenges and achieve European Green Deal goals.
Take a loot at a great one page summary by our colleague Natalia Oprea
2024, Jul 3
A double interview with Francesca and Piergiorgio in the field of geospatial data and interoperability. Fresh from their participation in the recent OGC Members Meeting, they share their insights on the critical importance of interoperability in geospatial data systems and the significant contributions of the USAGE project
2024, Jun 28
Project activities presented at the "Geographic Perspectives on ClimateChange Mitigation in Urban & Rural Environments" IEREK conference
2024, June 10.
A communication activity by our Partner AVT to empower municipalities towards a better monitoring of their environmenti
USAGE @ ESWC 2024
2024, June 13.
On 28th of May, Lucía Sánchez, from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) presented our project in the projects networking session of the 21st Extended (European) Semantic Web Conference (ESWC). During this session, an overview of USAGE was presented to other projects and stakeholders in order to promote possible collaborations. In addition, during this conference there were held other important events such as the Second International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces, organized by Johannes Theissen-Lipp, Pieter Colpaert, Sulayman K. Sowe, Edward Curry, and Stefan Decker, where importance of semantinc interoperability in dataspaces was shown.
2024, May 24.
Tomorrow, 25th of May, last event of the series of Acclimatize events in our Pilot City: Zaragoza
🌍 Save the Date: May25, 10:30AM
2024, April 15.
Come to listen our talk at the European Geoscience Union annual meeting in Vienna!
Our talk "Urban Data Space to Support Green Deal Priority Actions" is on Friday, 19 Apr, 11:30–11:40 in Room G2
2024, May 21.
Our Partner AVT is presenting in Florence for the centennial of the IUSS - International Union of Soil Sciences.
Aerial survey can contribute to soil sciences in many ways. Check the session: 'Soils for planning sustainable cities'
2024, March 15.
Join Citizen Science Ferrara
🌍 Save the Date: March 16, 2:00 PM
Data Interoperability for Ferrara
2024, March 4. Open data produced for the Municipality of Ferrara in USAGE are available in https://data.europa.eu/ portal; just search. Click here for more
2024, March 8. Our partner GeoCat is happy to provide an SDI solution for the USAGE project so the USAGE (meta)data can be published, discovered and used by all
Project meeting in Leuven, Belgium
2024, January 24. All partners meeting at KU Leuven premises to discuss ongoing activities and pilots achievements.
2024, January 12. Did you already see how many GB of opendata are shared by the Municipality of Ferrara?
2023, November 28. Meeting to discuss ongoing developments, use-cases and deployments of technological solutions in the pilot areas
USAGE @ INSPIRE conference
2023, November 29. We are at the #INSPIRE event to report our activities for Green Deal, check out our main takeaways!
2023, 6 November. Avviso pubblico per il conferimento di un contratto di lavoro autonomo per le esigenze connesse alle attività del progetto "USAGE" ai sensi del ROUS, art. 60. Area Tecnologica.
DAMA Chapters of the EMEA region Conference
2023, November 23. USAGE presents at DAMA EMEA Data Conference 2023, showcasing data-driven solutions for urban environmental challenges.
From November 29th to December 2nd. Joins us at the Panel ‘Using data to improve our cities and the world we live in’ where USAGE will showcase the role of data-driven innovations and collaboration in tackling environmental and climate challenges at urban level. See you in Bologna!
2023, November 6. Which relationship between policy processes, climate challenges and stakeholders’ needs?
2023, 25 Oct. Our partner Lisbon Council is looking for support within WP2 activities!
2023, 23 Oct. Partners FBK presented the USAGE dataset to forster green deal application with geodata.
2023, Oct 3. USAGE presented at EuroGeo event in the session "building the green deal data space in a way that contributes to GEO".
2023, Sept 20. Check thermal images (night & day) over our pilot area in Ferrara flown and prepared by our partner AVT.
2023, 29 Sept. Partners FBK and AVT showcased project activities at the EU Researchers Night in Trento.
2023, Sept 27. USAGE presented at the joint EuroGeographics / EuroSDR workshop on AI for national mapping agencies.
2023, 11 June. Partners are getting ready to meet in Zaragoza (Spain) to discuss ongoing activities and incoming deliverables.
2023, May 30. USAGE does not develop its solutions in isolation and explicitly recognises the importance of aligning with relevant European policy initiatives. In order to better understand the European policy context in which USAGE develops its solutions, this month, interviews are conducted with over ten European experts covering the variety of policy topics that USAGE touches upon.
2023, April 12. Earth Observation acquisitions literally help in detecting the hot spots of cities, here the surface temperature over Ferrara (IT), one of the pilots of the USAGE project.
2023, April 20. The objective of this webinar is twofold: on the one hand, to illustrate the international standard OGC SensorThings API to ensure interoperability of IoT and sensor-based data; on the other, to showcase practical experiences already started at different levels in Europe and Italy.
2023, March 1°. This introductory webinar will introduce the GREAT project and its goals, objectives, and upcoming activities.
The OAB has developed the OGC Web API Guidelines. Are you a standard developer? Watch videos to learn how to use common templates and align efforts.
2023, February 28. GO-PEG consortium organizes the workshop Practicing FAIRness for geospatial and cross-border data.
2023, February 20-24. Relevant ongoing projects on data spaces will meet and start sharing their plans for developments and directions undertaken, to discuss synergies, overlaps and complementary approaches.
2023, February. USAGE speaks with climate and data policy experts of the Municipality of Zaragoza to better understand the city's needs and the context in which the USAGE solutions will be developed.
2023, February 23. “Get-to-know” introductory workshop organized online by Data Spaces Support Centre, with the participation of a block of 26 Horizon Europe projects under World Leading Data and Computing Technologies cluster.
2023, Jan 31. The magnificent city hall of Ferrara welcomes USAGE partners for the Italian plenary and organized workshops!
2023, Jan. Back-to-back with the USAGE project meeting Francesco Mureddu (Lisbon Council) will speak to representatives of the Municipality of Ferrara to gain insights into the current policy context and technological infrastructure for the use of climate and environmental data. The interviews support the initial mapping of the USAGE pilots.
2023.01.25 Charlotte van Ooijen (Lisbon Council) and Kjersti Moe (AVT) speak to several urban planning and climate policy specialists of the Graz city administration. The interviews support the initial mapping of the USAGE pilots.
Topic: Integration of remote sensing with in-situ data at different scales | IEEE IGARSS 2023
From January 31 to February 2nd 2023, USAGE project partners are meeting in Ferrara (Italy) to discuss with local policy makers and stakeholders
USAGE project has been presented by Danny Vandenbroucke (KU Leuven) during Data for Policy 2022 on December 13th in Brussels
USAGE is presented at the EuroGEO Workshop 2022, in a joint discussion with other projects and stakeholders interested in the development of Green Deal data spaces.
The 3rd International Conference on Strategies toward Green Deal Implementation will take place from 5 to 7 Dec 2022 in Poland.
The webinar Environmental Policies and data at the urban scale is organised by Deda Next within the USAGE project: book your spot (29 November).
USAGE presented at the Technology4All event
AVT participated at the event, held in Rome on 2-23 Nov 2022, with a boot, presenting aims and tasks of the USAGE project.
USAGE is going to Ferrara (Italy). We are going to attend the first Datathon of the City on 28 November 2022.
USAGE press release to report the kick-off meeting and the overall project information.
An overview of project aims, activities and pilots to tackle local green deals.
The kickoff meeting of the USAGE project was held in Madrid on 31st August and 1st September, hosted by UPM.
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