Knowledge Base

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is part of the European Cloud Initiative aiming a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe. It functions as a virtual environment with open and seamless services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data, across borders and scientific disciplines by federating existing scientific data infrastructures.

Galileo is the European Union's Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS). Sometimes called the ’European GPS‘, Galileo provides accurate positioning and timing information. Galileo is a programme under civilian control and its data can be used for a broad range of applications. It is autonomous but also interoperable with existing satellite navigation systems. At the moment, the Galileo constellation consists of 24 satellites.

EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment with the purpose of supplying reliable and accurate weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – to the National Meteorological Services of the EU Member States and other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT provides data, products and support services to the Copernicus information services and user communities, with a focus on marine, atmosphere and climate.

A strategic risk assessment and analysis tool, which aims to provide early alerts on potential threats to national security by developing a network that links various independent government agencies. Some of the latest technologies employed in the RAHS system allow for model-building, monitoring, weak signal detection and pattern analysis

Esthonian Budget Visualisation Calculator

Measures a set of indicators assessing the number of data workers in Europe, the value of data-related products and services, the number of data users and data supply companies, as well as the overall impact of the data economy on Europe's GDP

Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) is a research-based, risk and needs assessment tool for criminal justice practitioners to assist them in the placement, supervision, and case management of offenders in community and secure settings. The COMPAS is an objective risk and needs assessment instrument

OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it, transforming it from one format into another, and extending it with web services and external data. OpenRefine allows to explore large data sets with ease

Datawrapper is an online data-visualisation tool for making interactive charts. Once the user uploads the data from CSV/PDF/Excel file or pastes it directly into the field, Datawrapper generates a bar, line, map or any other related visualisation. Datawrapper graphs can be embedded into any website or CMS with ready-to-use embed codes

Orange enables open source data visualisation and data analysis for novice and expert. It provides a large toolbox to create interactive workflows to analyse and visualise data. Orange is packed with different visualisations, from scatter plots, bar charts, trees, to dendrograms, networks and heat maps