Session

Opening up data on research as a driver of innovation in Flanders

  • Time: 11h30-12h00
  • Location: Breakout 3
  • Level: Advanced
  • Type: Keynote

How opening up data on publicly funded research became a driver of innovation in Flanders. The use case of FRIS.

33.000 research projects. 80.000 researchers. 378.000 scientific publications. This is the amount of data from scientific research that are being collected by Flanders Research Information Space (FRIS), a program run by the Flemish Government (Department Economy, Science of Innovation). Information comes directly from 14 research institutes whose processes and systems are aligned to support the government’s strategy that opening data is essential for driving knowledge transfer to the industry and the broad public. All FRIS-data are made accessible and publicly available for reuse via open API’s. This is FAIR data at work! #winner of the Agoria e-gov Awards “Open Data” and “Best Project 2018”.

Speakers

Hello I'm LEEN VAN CAMPE

Leen Van Campe graduated at KU Leuven as MA in Latin and Greek, after which she obtained a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy and a postgraduate degree in web development. In 2011 she took the position of functional analyst in the FRIS-team of the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI). Her main focus was to construct the right enterprise architecture and to create a solid foundation for the FRIS IT-infrastructure and the digitized business processes. Since 2016 she is overseeing the successful delivery of all activities associated with FRIS as program manager.

LEEN VAN CAMPE

Program Manager

Flanders Research Information Space - EWI

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