TPM receives H2020 funding to research Big Data

Juan Duran and Jeroen van den Hoven obtained 272,00 euro funding for the SoBigData++ project granted by H2020. The project consists of a consortium of 31 participants and has a total budget of 10 million euro.

The new SoBigData++: European Integrated Infrastructure for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics project is a continuation of the SoBigData project; a research infrastructure (RI) for ethic-sensitive scientific discoveries and advanced applications of social data mining to the various dimensions of social life, as recorded by “big data”. The new project will build upon the European research community developed in SoBigData and will advance from the awareness of ethical and legal challenges to concrete tools that operationalise ethics with value-sensitive design, incorporating values and norms for privacy protection, fairness, transparency and pluralism.

SoBigData++ will deliver an accelerator of data-driven innovation that facilitates the collaboration with industry to develop joint pilot projects. The project will move forward from a starting community of pioneers to a wide and diverse scientific movement, capable of empowering the next generation of responsible social data scientists, engaged in the grand societal challenges