The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) Consortium was an interdisciplinary research programme, partially funded by the European Union (EU), that ran between January 2015 and October 2020.
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Big Data is a term describing the continuous increase in data, and the technologies needed to collect, store, manage, and analyse it. It is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon, impacting people, processes and technology. From a technology point of view, Big Data encompasses hardware and software that integrate, organise, manage, analyse, and present data which is characterised by "four Vs": volume (size of the data sets), velocity (high speed of data processing), variety (different types and sources of data used), and veracity (high quality of analysed data).
In October 2020, researchers highlighted the need to implement cybersecurity in the agricultural sector as it is getting more data-oriented over time.
The theme of the 2020 edition of the European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) was, “Towards a strong European Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ecosystem”.
In September 2020, the Spanish government published an overview of the implementation of open data portals in the country.
On Wednesday 16 December 2020, the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy presented a new EU Cybersecurity Strategy.
On Wednesday 25 November 2020, the European Commissions proposed new rules to regulate data governance within the European Union (EU).
On the 1st of December, the ENVISION project was launched.
On 16 December 2020, the European Data Portal published its sixth annual benchmark report: the “Open Data Maturity Report 2020”.
Cloud computing is essential to deploy technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchain and data analytics.
The digitalisation of mechanical engineering presents immense benefits for European companies in terms of productivityand performance. The sector’s ‘cloudification’ is facilitating the accessof European SMEs to cloud-based high-performance computing that is highly customisable and cost-saving.
