ScaleTrust

“6 out of 10 companies do not share data with others”, according to a representative survey by the digital association BITKOM. The main obstacles to a functioning data exchange are a lack of compatibility, legal uncertainty, but also a lack of trust and existing conflicts of interest. The economic and scientific potential of data use is therefore far from being fully exploited. One in seven companies wants to build its core business on data in the near future, while at the same time three quarters are lagging behind in the development of data-driven business models (BITKOM survey). In an increasingly networked economy, science and society, data exchange has a necessary role to play in order to adequately meet the requirements of EU and national legislators, innovation needs and increasing resilience and sustainability.

The project “ScaleTrust - Scalable Compliance and Leadership in Ethical Trusteeship” aims to create a scalable blueprint for cross-sector, cross-application and cross-national data exchange in data spaces and at the same time to develop a transferable trustee model so that its successful establishment can achieve a future data innovation economy with higher data stocks for a higher number of actors. In the project, the Green Deal Dataspace is presented as an example of the best starting point for the development and expansion of a legally compliant and trustworthy data trustee model. The Green Deal Dataspace is designed as an open ecosystem for resilience and sustainability and is geared towards optimizing the circular economy and transparency of supply chains.
Two practice-oriented use cases, which deal with the problems of supply chains and soon to be reportable emissions data, will show ways in which the use of a trustee model can contribute to the exchange of data in business and science.