10 June 2025

Protecting and promoting agricultural and environmental data

OpEnAgro is a groundbreaking collaboration between researchers and lawyers at CRIDS (University of Namur), aimed at analysing the legal issues associated with digital platforms and decision support tools (DSTs), to ensure their equal development.

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The OpEnAgro4.2 project has answered many of the questions raised by the integration of digital technologies into decision support tools and various information systems for the agricultural sector, research and society, such as those surrounding data control, the regulations to comply with (GDPR, Open data, Data Act, etc.), the types of agreements for data sharing, and the types of licences required for users of decision support tools.

In concrete terms, the main results that will be usable at the end of the project will be as follows:

  • An explanatory guide to the legislation applicable to agricultural data management (GDPR-Data Act) – Illustrated by three case studies; 
  • An EUPL open-source IT application – Data Management Plan – available for use by research centres and universities.

 

Funding: Walloon Recovery Plan

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