Discover the data.europa academy: Fifth course, ‘Measuring the
impact of open data’
Open data brings multiple benefits, but understanding its real impact
is an essential action that data.europa.eu continues to explore. In
the fifth course of the restructured data.europa academy
[https://data.europa.eu/en/news-events/news/dataeuropa-academy-discover-our-11-open-data-courses],
‘Measuring the impact of open data
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/measuring-impact-open-data]’, you
will learn more about different methods to measure impact in Europe,
the importance of reuse and how our research showcased in the Use Case
Observatory [https://data.europa.eu/en/publications/use-cases] and the
annual Open Data Maturity assessment
[https://data.europa.eu/sites/default/files/data.europa.eu_landscaping_insight_report_n8_2022_1_1.pdf]
contributes to measuring the impact of open data.

The course covers five different lessons. It begins with an e-learning
on the importance of open data and how it can create governmental,
social, environmental and economic impact in the lesson ‘Achieving
impact with open data initiatives
[https://data.europa.eu/elearning/en/module16/#/id/co-01]’. The
second lesson, ‘Measuring open data impact in Europe
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/measuring-open-data-impact-europe]’,
introduces different approaches to measure the impact of open data and
takes a closer look at the progress and trends of the Open Data
Maturity assessment. Following that, the third lesson, ‘Open data
best practices and monitoring use cases
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/open-data-best-practices-and-monitoring-use-cases]’
delves deeper into the impact of open data reuse on government,
society, environment and economy. This lesson features inspiring use
cases from fields such as mobility, journalism, or smart cities. 

The fourth lesson, ‘Understanding public data demand in the public
sector
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/understanding-public-data-demand-public-sector]’,
consists of webinars and reading materials that explore open data in
the public sector, including methods to measure the demand of data
reuse and how it can be used to create value. Lastly, the lesson
‘Stories from the Use Case Observatory
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/stories-use-case-observatory]’
focuses on our Use Case Observatory where you can monitor and evaluate
the impact of open data reuse and discover what organisations across
Europe are doing with open data. Through the e-learnings, reading
materials, tools and videos, you will gain a comprehensive
understanding of how to make an impact with open data  by the end of
this fifth data.europa academy [https://data.europa.eu/en/academy]
course. You can find the course and lessons here
[https://data.europa.eu/en/academy/measuring-impact-open-data]. 

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Publication Date/Time
2023-06-12T08:00:00+00:00
Explore the fifth course of the data.europa academy on methods to
measure the impact and value of open data in Europe