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Discover why open data impact is so important and how it can create governmental, social, environmental, and economic impact. In this lesson, you’ll learn about how to achieve impact through open data projects or initiatives, the possible barriers you and your team can come across, and how to overcome them. By the end of it, you’ll have a better understanding of how to achieve open data impact!

COVID-19 has shaken the world since 2020 and its impact is still being felt today. Our videos showcase how COVID-19 data can be used to improve our quality of life going forward. In this lesson, we showcase open data on how COVID-19 has impacted air quality and lessons learned, its role in the media and data monitoring, European countries responses and long-term impacts, and available datasets from Eurofound and the European Centre for Disease Prevent and Control.

In this three-part training series on data visualisation you will learn how to turn complex data into clear, ethical, and engaging visuals. Led by data visualisation expert and professor Alberto Cairo, each 90-minute episode combines theory, hands-on practice, and curated materials to help you design visualisations that communicate insights effectively.

Want to know how to make the most of open data? This lesson is all about uncovering the hidden value in open data. Through e-learnings, videos and readings, you'll see how open data is helping to transform societies, protect the environment and drive economic growth. You'll learn about the key benefits of open data, like improved transparency and accountability, as well as increased innovation and efficiency. By the end of this lesson, you'll have a good understanding of how governments, businesses and individuals are using open data to create new value.

Everyone produces data every day. This data represents aspects such as our daily life, our journeys, and our possessions. So, how can we exploit this?  In this webinar, Caroline Goulard explains how to work with “hidden data” to visualise intangible phenomena and provides recommendations on how to collectively use it to improve our data ecosystems and create new services or improve existing ones.

This lesson explores the impact of open data reuse on government, society, environment and economy through webinars and examples of European open data and best practices in fields like mobility, journalism, agriculture, and smart cities. You’ll get a better understanding about the importance of monitoring open data reuse and different ways to do it. By the end, you'll understand the potential of open data reuse and be inspired to make a difference.

Information can get lost in a long document. How can we get it out? In this lesson, we have three webinars that deep dive into how you can go beyond a printed document and annual report, and instead have a human-centred information design process that can be used to develop a modern, data-driven government publication that incorporates data visualisation and data-driven storytelling.

Understanding and measuring the impact of open data is one of the areas that data.euopa.eu explores. Our material introduces different methods that are used to measure the impact of open data in Europe. This is complemented by our reading materials, which dive into assessing the different measurement approaches across European institutions. At the end of the lesson, you’ll be familiar with different methods to measure open data impact!