Use Case
Connecting Personal Skills-data to the Data Space
THE GOAL
To establish a technical connection between Athumi’s ecosystem and the EU Skills Data Space, enabling the secure and compliant sharing of relevant data with data consumers across Europe.
ADDED VALUE
Easier access to student services across the EU, facilitated student job search and recruitment, and reduced fraud.
IMPACTED STAKEHOLDERS
Tech firms, businesses and consumers
Partners Involved
- Country
MORE INFO
The DS4Skills project aims to demonstrate how data spaces for skills-related information can be interconnected and extended through concrete use cases. While most use case leaders adopt a scenario where they consume or contribute data and services within the existing VisionsTrust/DS4Skills ecosystem, Athumi proposes a complementary approach.
As a data intermediary and trusted data governor in Flanders, Athumi has developed its own ecosystem with a unique architecture, legal framework, and governance model for personal data exchange — including a strong focus on data subject consent, eIDAS-compliant authentication, and centralised contract management. However, Athumi currently operates independently from the broader European data space initiatives.
This use case explores how the Athumi ecosystem and the DS4Skills ecosystem can be linked, while retaining their respective autonomy in terms of governance, identity management, and consent capture. The intention is not to integrate deeply into each other’s systems, but to identify and realise minimal viable interoperability that enables meaningful cross-ecosystem value.
By bridging the Athumi and DS4Skills-GO ecosystems, this use case contributes to:
- Avoiding European fragmentation: Demonstrating how distinct but compatible data spaces can interoperate without enforcing architectural conformity;
- Cross-border visibility: Enabling Flemish data and services to be discoverable at European level — and vice versa — without duplicating efforts or compromising governance;
- Foundation for scalability: Preparing the ground for future data flows and service collaborations between ecosystems, without rushing into full technical or legal integration.
ACHIEVED OUTCOMES
COMING SOON!
Use Cases are focused on key challenges such as lifelong learning, upskilling, and employee retention, demonstrating the practical benefits of the European Skills Data Space.