UNIPI Team Leader: Prof. Dino Pedreschi, Diparitmeto di Informatica

SoBigData++ strives to deliver a distributed, Pan-European, multi-disciplinary research infrastructure for big social data analytics, coupled with the consolidation of a cross-disciplinary European research community, aimed at using social mining and big data to understand the complexity of our contemporary, globally-interconnected society.

SoBigData++ is set to advance on such ambitious tasks thanks to SoBigData, the predecessor project that started this construction in 2015. Becoming an advanced community, SoBigData++ will strengthen its tools and services to empower researchers and innovators through a platform for the design and execution of large-scale social mining experiments. It will be open to users with diverse background, accessible on project cloud (aligned with EOSC) and also exploiting supercomputing facilities.

Pushing the FAIR principles further, SoBigData++ will render social mining experiments more easily designed, adjusted and repeatable by domain experts that are not data scientists. SoBigData++ will move forward from a starting community of pioneers to a wide and diverse scientific movement, capable of empowering the next generation of responsible social data scientists, engaged in the grand societal challenges laid out in i

ts exploratories: Societal Debates and Online Misinformation, Sustainable Cities for Citizens, Demography, Economics & Finance 2.0, Migration Studies, Sport Data Science, Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Explainable Machine Learning. SoBigData++ will advance from the awareness of ethical and legal challenges to concrete tools that operationalise ethics with value-sensitive design, incorporating values and norms for privacy protection, fairness, transparency and pluralism. SoBigData++ will deliver an accelerator of data-driven innovation that facilitates the collaboration with industry to develop joint pilot projects, and will consolidate an RI ready for the ESFRI Roadmap and sustained by a SoBigData Association.

Coordinator

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Italy

Participants

• THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom
• UNIVERSITA DI PISA, Italy
• FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., Germany
• TARTU ULIKOOL, Estonia
• SCUOLA IMT (ISTITUZIONI, MERCATI, TECNOLOGIE) ALTI STUDI DI LUCCA, Italy
• GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER, Germany
• KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, United Kingdom
• SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE, Italy
• AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR, Finland
• EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH, Switzerland
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT, Netherlands
• STICHTING EGI, Netherlands
• ECOLE D'ECONOMIE DE PARIS, France
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA, Italy
• OPENAIRE AMKE, Greece
• CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS, France
• RE-IMAGINE EUROPA, Belgium
• KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM, Hungary
• UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI, Spain
• CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY, Bulgaria
• BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION, Spain
• UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA, Spain
• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN, Sweden
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'AQUILA, Italy
• SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE ELIANTE ONLUS, Italy
• CARLORATTIASSOCIATI S.R.L., Italy
• NUBISWARE SRL,Italy
• UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
• STACC OU, Estonia
• SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA, Italy

Start date 1 Gennaio 2020
End date 31 Dicembre 2023
Project cost € 9 997 172,50
Project funding € 9 997 172,50
UNIPI quota € 580 735
Call title H2020-INFRAIA-2019-1
Funding scheme RIA - Research and Innovation action
UNIPI role Partner
Project website: http://sobigdata.eu/index