DS4Skills adopted an approach to identify the needs of skills & education stakeholders across Europe: what are the use cases they are working on? What are their technical, business, UX and governance needs? This happened through a set of 20 in depth interviews and the results can be found more extensively in D3.1 [Deliverable 3.1].
From these needs the project identified 5 main tracks:
- Usage scenarios: what are the main usage scenarios for the skills data space, what is the value for each stakeholder?
- Business models & Value sharing: what are the different types of business model, pricing models? What kind of value is generated and shared in the data space?
- Governance Models: what are the roles in the data space? What are their obligations? Who is in charge of what? What do we need to set up this governance?
- Technical architecture and building blocks: what are the building blocks and technical components needed to share data in a decentralised and trusted way?
- User experience: how to ensure a seamless experience for people and organisations in the data space?
Each of these tracks were set to provide precise recommendations and solutions through an iterative approach of 5 phases.
- Scientific literature phase: Proposing recommendations extracted from scientific articles.
- Inclusion phase: Augmenting the recommendations with elements from D3.1 and the Data Space Support Centre and with the recommendations with the expertise of DS4Skills partners.
- Community phase: Organising a workshop organized with skills / education stakeholders to get inputs on the recommendations.
- DSSC phase: Organising a workshop organized with the DSSC to align the blueprint with DSSC progress and recommendations.
- Partners phase: Producing the final recommendations of each chapter through an agile and co-creation approach, based on all previous inputs and their expertise.
- Finalization phase: Fine tuning the blueprint through a final workshop with wider audience (decision makers, other data space representatives).
The following chapters detail as such:
- General approach: description of the overall structure, roles and different levels in the data space as well as the human-centric focus of the Skills & Education Data Space.
- Usage scenarios: description of the main use cases DS4Skills as identified for the Skills & Education Data Space.
- Business models: description of potential business models for the data space use cases
- Governance models: description of the governance model and framework needed to implement the data space.
- Technical elements: description of the technical architecture and building blocks proposed to implement the data space.
- User Experience: user experience propositions for the data space.
- Growth and roll out: recommendations to launch the data space and ensure wide adoption.
Across the tracks we will use the fictional use case “EU-DUNE” to concretely illustrate recommendations, described under chapter “Usage scenarios”.
