GLACIATION (“Green responsibLe privACy preserving dAta operations”) was presented during the event “Data sharing in the common European data spaces and Strengthening Europe's data analytics capacity”. The project, financed by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 program, was created with the aim of effectively responding to the problem of energy consumption linked to the data management process, while ensuring security and privacy protection.

During the meeting, Roberta Lotti, Innovation Manager at the Information Systems and Innovation Directorate (DSII) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), shared with the audience an overview of the project and its use cases:

• the first, led by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, is aimed at reducing energy consumption by optimising the circulation of data between central and local public administrations;
• the second, led by DELL, addresses the need for advanced, resource-efficient data analysis;
• the third use case is led by SAP and is aimed at perfecting privacy-enhancing technologies for cross-business processes and collaborative analysis.

Under GLACIATION, a platform will be developed that reduces the energy consumption required for data processing and analysis by distributing operations along an edge-core-cloud structure. The correct allocation of data will be supported by an artificial intelligence system that will minimize handling operations by reducing energy requirements, while maintaining high standards of security, accuracy and privacy protection.  Overall, the technologies implemented in GLACIATION are enabling the creation of a pan-European infrastructure, especially in data sharing and re-use.

The project brings together a range of complementary competences and is composed of 15 partners from 8 different countries: academic partners dedicated to the innovative application of technologies, research centers with extensive experience in energy efficiency and edge-core-cloud technologies, and SMEs with experience in policy evaluation and communication of results.

In order to make known the progress and the main results, the dedicated project page has been made available within the NoiPA portal, which, together with the official website, will host useful information and insights.