News

• The Austrian Region of Styria organised a roundtable entitled “The Innovative Data Environment @ Styria”, which took place on Wednesday, 25 May 2022, at the Permanent Mission of Austria in Brussels. The meeting presented how the Austrian region of Styria is developing a joint infrastructure for academia and industry that enables efficient, safe and sustainable use of all kinds of data, including data services and human resources capacity building. This initiative might also serve as a model for other European regions how to support data-driven innovation and digital transformation in the public and private sectors. The meeting has been in person, further information is available here!

• IDE@S in the current tech report of AC-Styria (page 10+).
• A study on regional data infrastructures and collaborative data use has been published.
• A German version of a roadmap to cooperative data environments in terms of data protection laws, developed during the project, has been made available to everyone.
• A short article on IDE@S in the IT-Journal of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) (page 28+) about sustainability and ethical aspects of AI.
• The identification of tumors by algorithms that employ digitalised tissue samples shows the relevance of data (digital images in this case) in medical research. A news article describing the project at the Medizinischen Universität Graz under the leadership of IDE@S project partner Prof. Kurt Zatloukal has appeared in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
• IDE@S has appeared in the media during February 2021:
  • Die Woche https://www.meinbezirk.at/graz/c-lokales/schulterschluss-fuer-bessere-datennutzung_a4462329
  • Kleine Zeitung https://www.pressreader.com/austria/kleine-zeitung-steiermark/20210206/282338272560591
• IDE@S was featured in the February issue of Digitale TU Graz News: https://go.tugraz.at/IDEaS_DigitaleTUGrazNews
• Due to trademark protection the project changed its original name in December 2020: the project is now officially known as IDE@S - Innovative Data Environment @ Styria.
• Dr Sarah Stryeck is since January 2021 the new project coordinator. We thank Dr Tony Ross-Hellauer (Open and Reproducible Research Group at TU Graz) for his leadership in the first months of the project!

Past events

• Project presentation in the context of Fair Office Austria.
• IDE@S stakeholders gathered on dec. 9th, at the networking event, to catch up and discuss current progress of the project. First, a key note speech was given on Agile Data Governance by Günther Tschabuschnig (Data Intelligence Offensive). Then, results on requirements for human resources in the domain of data science und cloud computing in Styria have been presented. A virtual knowledge café served as discussion rounds on a demonstrator, data governance and the information hub.
• The advisory council met on sept 14th.
• Cooperative sustainable data infrastructure and digital archiving solutions, a workshop on technical infrastructure and services took place online on sept 10th.
• Workshop on Governance structure of the IDE@S Platform  took place on july 7th. The team at Med Uni Graz invited Styrian organisations interested in shaping the governance of a data platform to an online workshop. The different interests and potential roles of partners (both universities and research institutions as well as businesses) has been taken into account to define the governance of IDE@S, considering the current and planned infrastructure and services and data protection and privacy, data sovereignty, other legal aspects, public-private-partnerships and business models.
• TU Graz organized a workshop on Standards towards an active and sustainable data exchange on 14^th June 2021 including a discussion from quality managers, technical writers, data management experts and various researchers and users, the summary can be found here.
• The last workshop on Secure data management for cross-organizational data exchange was held in May on advancing topics on services and technical infrastrutcture, a report can be downloaded here.
• IDE@S advisory board meet on March 30^th for the first time. The project was presented to the board members, followed by a discussion of its goals and the interests and expectations of the board.
• Around 20 experts from research institutions and businesses in Styria participated in the workshop Multi-stakeholder initiatives in Styrian data ecosystem on March 25^th, moderated by Claire Jean-Quartier (TU Graz). The discussion is part of the work to be carried out in work package 3, which seeks to map the available resources and explore the desired further development of the technical infrastructure for a collaborative data environment. A short summary of the workshop can be found here; a full account of the session is available in German.

• On 9th March 2021 a virtual round table on the future challenges for human resources in the era of data science and cloud computing (continuation of the November event) took place, organised by FH JOANNEUM as part of the online “PARTNER & Career DAY”.
• IDE@S Kick-off Online Workshop, with over 50 participants from research, businesses and public adminstration, together with members of the project's advisory board, took place on February 3^rd. After welcome by Prof. Claudia von der Linden, TU Graz' vice rector for Digitalisation and Change Management, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt (project leader) described the background and aims of the project, followed by brief introduction by the project partners of the teams and the specific goals and roadmap for the months ahead. The full presentation is available here (in German). In the subsequent panel discussion, Manuela Weissenbeck (Land Steiermark), Patrick Ratheiser (LeftshiftOne) and Bernd Tschapeller (Joanneum Research) under moderation by project coordinator Sarah Stryeck described the importance of data in their everyday tasks and the evolution and challenges that can be expected in the future.
• FH JOANNEUM opened the series of workshops in IDE@S on November 27^th with a focus group of experts on Humane resources: Challenges in data science & cloud computing in tomorrow's job market, moderated by team members Mag. Raphaele Raab and Mag. Hildegard Liebl.
• The internal project Kick-off took place on September 21^st 2020 at TU Graz.