Search academy

Want to know more about how to provide and collect good quality data and metadata? This is the course for you! Through e-learnings you’ll learn how to clean data, choose the right format, and understand what makes quality open data. Our webinars and reading materials will dive into how you can unlock the benefits of open data, the role of the European data portal, recommended guidelines, and the opportunities and challenges of citizen-generated data. Join us and take the next step in improving open data and metadata quality.

Are you looking to understand the concept and the benefits of open data? This course is for you! Our e-learning modules will introduce you to the concept of open data, its many benefits, and how to unlock its value in the digital age. Through webinars and reading materials, you’ll explore the creative possibilities and innovation that can be achieved with open data. Moreover, we’ll show you how the European data portal can support the use of open data for various purposes, including providing technical and legal advice, as well as real-world examples and inspirational use cases. Join us and discover the full potential of open data!

Data spaces aims to support data sharing across sectors, shaping our society and economy. Although they seem to be a key element in the single market of data, yet there are some elements to be defined and ongoing discussions on how this will look like in the future.  This course dives into this topic, combining e-learnings, webinars, reading materials and tools that will dive into the world of data sharing platforms and data spaces. Join us and discover the full potential of data spaces!

Looking to improve your data visualisation and inspire your audience? This course will help you rethink how you can inspire others through data visualisation and motivate you to explore different ways to create meaningful visuals. Our videos showcase how data visualisation can be used to illustrate data on topics such as music, art, COVID-19, finance, environment, and economy, in a fun and critical way.  

Open data bring multiple benefits, but understanding its real is an essential action that the European data portal continues exploring. This course will shed light on the topic of the impact of open data. Through webinars and reading materials, you’ll learn more about different methods to measure impact in Europe, the importance of reuse and best practices, the value of open data in the public and private sector, and how our research showcased in the Use Case Observatory contributes to open data impact measurement. Join us and discover how to make an impact with open data!

Do you want to learn how to design state-of-the art data visualisations? This course is for you! Our webinars and reading materials showcase how you can use data to create inspiring and practical visualisations, and how it can be used to tell a story and take your audience on a journey.  

Are you a developer looking to create or update a product or service? Or in a project that needs dataset to create a prototype or application? This is the course for you! Our e-learning modules will highlight the value and benefits of open data and how to exploit its full potential in the digital age.  Through webinars and reading materials, you’ll see different business models and examples of initiatives that use open data. By the end of the lesson, you’ll understand how to use open data to create a new product or service or develop it and take it to the next level. Join us and discover the full potential of open data!

Are you looking to improve the data visualisation in your communications? This course is for you! This course dives into how you and your team can communicate your findings and research through data visualisation and catch your audiences’ attention. Our videos showcase how you can go beyond a printed document to interactive tools, communicate complex economic topics in an enticing way, and create meaningful and interactive maps that take your audience on a journey.

Are you a developer or business looking to use open data in your application? This course is for you! Our e-learning modules will teach you how to find hidden data on the web and how to use the 5 Stars of linked open data to understand the different levels of formats. Through webinars and reading materials, you can explore how open data can be used to create or enhance applications, search data with SPARQL Knowledge Graph, and much more.

A sustainable data cycle needs a set of principles and practices, as well as an effective data governance. With e-learnings, webinars, reading materials and tools, you’ll get a better understanding of how governmental and legal considerations underpin and influence open data. We’ll illustrate the role the European data portal can play in different data spaces and delve into why data governance can add value in the public and private sector. Join us and discover the role and impact of open data governance in Europe!