The deployment of the common European agricultural data space is off to a strong start

Initiated on April 1, 2025, the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) initiative officially kicked off with a three-day assembly in early May in Ghent (Belgium). Co-funded by Digital Europe the initiative is overseen by Flanders research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food (ILVO). The project consortium brings together 36 participants from 15 countries, who will collaborate over the next 36 months to deploy and operationalize secure, sovereign and trusted data sharing, including public administration, across the agrifood value chain.

CEADS is designed to enhance economic, environmental, and societal value in European agriculture while maintaining high standards of privacy, security, and ethics. By enabling secure and trusted data sharing, CEADS will drive smart, sustainable farming, support AI-powered innovation, boost economic performance, create climate resilience and ecological balance and accelerate both the digital and green transitions in agriculture. This initiative is a direct response to the European Strategy for Data and builds on the foundations laid by the AgriDataSpace project (2022-2024), which mapped the landscape and defined the roadmap for a federated, decentralized data space model for agriculture.

“Just as every successful harvest starts with data, we are planting the ‘CEADS’ for Europe’s agrifood data future,” Jürgen Vangeyte, director at ILVO, pointed out.

During the kick-off meeting, all consortium partners outlined the strategic framework to achieve these ambitious key objectives:

  • facilitating high-quality agrifood data,
  • unlocking value from real-life data exchange,
  • establishing operational and trusted data governance,
  • deploying sustainable business models for data sharing,
  • applying ethical and legal data standards,
  • implementing secure and interoperable technical infrastructure, and
  • connecting data space initiatives into an EU wide agricultural data space.

The project will be implemented iteratively, engaging key stakeholders and leveraging open calls to ensure broad representation and participation from all EU Member States.

For further details on initiative goals, upcoming activities, advancements, and outcomes, visit the CEADS website: https://ceads.eu/ or contact the consortium directly at ceads@ilvo.vlaanderen.be

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Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO) researches the entire food chain, from primary food production to food processing and also the social and economic aspects of agriculture and fisheries. ILVO is an independent governmental research institute, part of the  Government of Flanders’ Agriculture and Fisheries Policy Area in Belgium.
ILVO’s mission is to perform and coordinate policy-supportive scientific research and the associated public service with the goal of creating sustainable agriculture and fisheries from an economic, ecological and social perspective. 
ILVO research and its related services span the range from fundamental and applied crop and animal sciences to agricultural engineering, marine and fisheries research, food science, social science research and economics.  
Using research, ILVO strives to improve products and production methods, monitor and safeguard the quality and safety of end products, and to improve policy instruments with the aim of developing policy related to agriculture, rural areas, and fisheries. ILVO continually informs policymakers, the relevant industries, and the public about its research findings.

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