DataGEMS is in an excellent position to drive the project goals thanks to a strong, highly motivated and committed partner consortium that involves five research centers (ARC, CNRS, UPCite, UVR, ZHAW), one infrastructure provider (SCAYLE), two SMEs (CITE, IG), and four use case providers in Education and Learning (IPB, DHBW), Meteorology (NoA) and Language Data Infrastructure (IDS). The composition brings together all the expertise required to meet the project’s objectives, responding to major challenges and risks.
The Athena Research Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies was founded in 2003, taking under its umbrella three existing institutes (established as far back as 1991). It is based in Athens, with its Institutes located in Athens, Patras and Xanthi. The Athena RIC consists of 3 Research Institutes. It also incubates two research units and one unit that pioneers in technological cluster formation.
CNRS has extensive research experience and expertise in data-related domains, such as databases, recommendation systems and human-in-the-loop algorithms with applications in education, medicine, graph data management and provenance. CNRS will be involved in basic research and implementation for the MoMa data model, graph-based explainability, analytics and evaluation – especially as it relates to use case providers. Affiliated entities: UGA and Grenoble INP.
UVR, participating in the analysis, design and implementation of the DataGEMS platform, brings expertise in data management, data exploration, graph databases, temporal and scientific databases and analysis of bias in data management. Furthermore, the team UVR includes members with a high profile in terms of interdisciplinary collaborations with initiatives on integration and analysis of linked open data.
IPB will be leading a prominent learning use case, through the MathE system. The partner will integrate the DataGEMS system in MathE, test and validate innovative approaches developed during the project. Moreover IPB, provides valuable feedback for the technology implemented and becomes a wide audience attractor as MathE is running since 2019 having approximately 2,000 students enrolled in the platform from 21 countries.
NOA onboards a demanding pilot (Weather) and has vast expertise in areas of numerical weather prediction and study of weather systems, operational weather monitoring, development of weather and climate services based among others on Copernicus data sets, and the operation of a public weather website (https://www.meteo.gr). Its engagement will cover various data segments, as it includes provision and curation of weather-related datasets and geospatial information, development and calculation of climate indicators based on Copernicus open datasets and weather station historical and real-time datasets as well as development of queries for the open services.
Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), ranked as the leading European university in innovation by the European Patent Office in 2024, also maintains its lead at the national level, remaining in first place among French universities in the INPI 2024 ranking just published this Monday, March 24, 2025. Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), as affiliated partner of CNRS in DataGEMS
Grenoble INP – also UGA as affiliated partner of CNRS
As an academic division of UGA, a recognized research hub and a founding member of the Grenoble ecosystem, Grenoble INP Graduate schools of Engineering and Management, Université Grenoble Alpes plays a major role in the scientific and industrial community.
ZHAW contributes to the areas of database systems, information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning. ZHAW also covers topics of extracting knowledge graphs from text documents using classical information retrieval approaches, natural language processing techniques leveraging LLMs and translating natural language questions to the database query language SQL. The ZHAW team builds on more than a decade of experience both from projects with academia as well as with industry.
DHBW brings to DataGEMS the lifelong learning pilot case – a widely scalable scenario. With 50 years of collaboration with its partner organizations in undergraduate education as well as lifelong learning, DHBW has a unique network and understanding of the educational needs of its partners. Furthermore, it has the capability to provide rich feedback on project results, also forming a test and verification environment for any other educational use case onboarded.
CITE will undertake the role of lead integrator, bringing to the consortium its core business software integration and delivery expertise and a solid background with Open Science ecosystem principles, technologies and interoperability approaches. CITE’s representative is a member of EOSC Interoperability Group, while the company contributes ARGOS83 service provided by OpenAIRE on EOSC. CITE will provide support and solutions to integration challenges and support and solutions for operationalization of DataGEMS components, towards delivering cohesive innovative EOSC services.
UPCite brings world-wide acknowledged expertise on problems related to streaming data processing, as well as static and streaming time series and high-dimensional vector management, processing and analytics. UPCite will use this expertise in researching and designing solutions for the components necessary for static and real-time profiling.
IDS, being an important stakeholder within the CLARIN ERIC and in a large German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), brings to the project several and diverse language resources, datasets as well as a field for piloting the work of the project, and it forms the link for wider ERIC and national initiatives engagement. Its researchers serve as the National Coordinator (NC) for CLARIN in Germany, chair of the Standards Committee as well as chair of the Legal and Ethical Issues Committee. IDS is the lead partner (Applicant Institution) in the Text+ consortium and part of the NFDI.
SCAYLE will support shaping projects delivering an operational structure and will be providing resources for serving project services via its powerful infrastructure. It is recognised as ICTS (Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures), and has strong capabilities in advanced computing, which are: intensive computing, massive storage and advanced communications, as well as cloud services. SCAYLE also brings links to other infrastructures such as Spanish and European supercomputing infrastructure networks (RES and EUROCC).
IG will support implementation and integration of the platform in a multitude of ways, bringing in its expertise in operational systems’ delivery, integration, custom user interface implementation, AI and ML solutions application and EOSC specialized services. IG will also provide resources for services on the cloud as needed for LLMs.
Both CITE and IG bring to the project a strong viewpoint on SME exploitation of project’s results.
