Building a bridge Between Data Spaces
Europe is developing data spaces across skills, health, mobility, and other sectors. But a critical question emerges: are these becoming interoperable infrastructures, or sophisticated silos?
The DS4Skills-GO project is accelerating the development of a European skills data space through eight strategic use cases across Europe. Most follow a clear path:
consume or contribute data or services within the DS4Skills ecosystem. But Athumi, as a data intermediary in Flanders, together with research partner IMEC, takes a different approach: how can two mature, autonomous ecosystems work together without losing what makes each valuable?
Meet The Partners: BADGEBOX
BadgeBox is a software house and it is part of the Adecco Group, specialised in digital solutions for human resources management and business process optimisation. The BadgeBox platform integrates, within a single environment, functionalities such as digital attendance tracking and time management, supporting companies in their digital transformation journey and simplifying operational workflows. Combining advanced technological expertise with a strong focus on user experience, BadgeBox provides flexible, scalable, and easily integrable tools for modern organisations.
Meet The Partners: Scheer GmbH
For over 40 years, Scheer has been a leader in intelligent processes, advanced technologies, and personalized consulting. In the fields of business and IT consulting, automation and process integration, as well as corporate learning, the Scheer Group supports a wide range of companies, from hidden champions to global players, along their entire value chain.
Supporting Student Mobility and Lifelong Learning
CSC – IT Center for Science, together with three Finnish higher education institutions, is developing a DS4Skills use case that connects student information systems to the European Skills Data Space. The ultimate goal is to make learning opportunities across European universities easier to discover, reduce manual data handling, and improve data quality through AI-powered classification – supporting both student mobility and lifelong learning.
Skills-driven Higher Education Institutions
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is leading a DS4Skills use case to develop a dataspace that connects students’ learning experiences with skills data. The goal is to understand how learning outcomes align with the needs of the labour market, provide personalised support for lifelong learners, and make higher education more skills-driven.
Meet The Partners: Athumi
Prometheus-X Prometheus-X is dedicated to developing a decentralised, open infrastructure for data sharing across multiple domains. The initiative seeks to establish a human-centric data ecosystem where individuals retain full control over their data, enabling secure and transparent sharing.
Mind the Gap: Personalised and Job Market-Aligned Training for Future-Ready Workforce
As part of the DS4Skills project, this Luxembourg use case brings together leading national actors to prepare the workforce for future-ready careers through continuous upskilling and smart, data-driven tools.
Meet The Partners: Prometheus-X
Prometheus-X Prometheus-X is dedicated to developing a decentralised, open infrastructure for data sharing across multiple domains. The initiative seeks to establish a human-centric data ecosystem where individuals retain full control over their data, enabling secure and transparent sharing.
Meet The Partners: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
The purpose of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the world’s first university with a virtual campus, is to promote access to high-quality, accessible, and inclusive education, adapted to every stage of life, and aimed at helping people transform their lives and their environments. This is made possible thanks to a 100% online, innovative, flexible, and rigorous learning model that places students at the centre.
Meet The Partners: IMEC
IMEC is a globally recognized research and innovation center in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. Known for its strong track record in ICT and software research, IMEC’s capabilities span the full data value chain—from data enrichment and semantic representation to cloud-native application development.