With »open bydata«, the data agency byte – Bayerische Agentur für Digitales, the Bavarian State Ministry for Digital Affairs, together with the Datenkompetenzzentrum für Städte und Regionen and Fraunhofer FOKUS provide a platform as the central point of contact for Bavarian open data. Fraunhofer FOKUS is responsible for the development of the portal as well as the connection of existing data portals from Bavaria.

In the project WISSENsAllmende (KNOWLEDGECommons), the name says it all: An open urban data platform shall bundle the data of the city of Jena and make it accessible to everyone in the future- for more transparency, trust and participation. We support the city administration at the development of this platform based on our piveau® technology.

The European Union currently offers two Open Data portals: the EU Open Data Portal and the European Data Portal. In order to create a central contact point for high-quality data within Europe, both portals are now to be transferred into the joint portal Data.Europa.EU. Fraunhofer FOKUS is developing its technological »heart«.

The Fraunhofer lead project aims to demonstrate for the first time how »empathic production systems« enable more efficient cooperation between actors in production and the transformation towards resilient value creation communities. Fraunhofer FOKUS develops a metadata platform as project partner.

In the EU project PISTIS, a platform is being created for the secure, trustworthy and controlled exchange and trading of data from companies and public institutions. The 31 project partners are piloting the project at several European locations in three large-scale demonstration hubs on energy, mobility and urban planning, and automotive.

Data exchange in a technically and legally secure manner: The project »(Inter-)Kommunale Datenwerke« (KDW) ((Inter-)municipal DataWorks), funded by the mFund of the BMDV, aims to build a secure virtual space for intra- and inter-municipal exchange of (partially) restrictive data. Fraunhofer FOKUS is a project partner.

With the Open Data portal »Open.NRW«, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia intends to render government action more transparent. As far as possible, the state's administrative data is to be published as open data. We support and advise the state government in this process - from data management to publication of the data to its utilization.

In order to create a secure, sovereign data infrastructure for the state, the citizens, as well as for companies and institutions in Europe, data silos and lacking standards have to be overcome and transparency has to be established. The project »Possible: Phoenix open software stack for interoperable engagement in dataspaces« makes a contribution to this as one of 11 research projects supported by the Federal Network Agency over three years in the Gaia-X funding competition.

How can artificial intelligence (AI) become comprehensible for industrial processes? This question is being investigated by the EU-funded project XMANAI (Explainable Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence). Fraunhofer FOKUS participates as a scientific partner for real-time data management.

IT security is a complex network of attack vectors, countermeasures, defensive technologies and awareness measures. This difficult subject matter poses major challenges for IT managers in small and medium-sized enterprises. The ELITE project is designed to create experience sites for »ErLebbare IT-SichErheit durch mobile IT-Sec.PopUp-Labs«.

The EU project »DECIDO« aims to enable and improve evidence-based governance within public authorities through the use of innovative methods, tools and data. DECIDO will connect public administrations with the data and computing infrastructure of the European Open Science Cloud, so that public authorities can use the services and the data offered there for their own evidence-based policy-making.

The project GLASS aims to fundamentally improve and automate the administrative processes, service quality and data exchange of public administration.