Germany needs a hub for the successful adoption of data spaces: acatech, Fraunhofer ISST, IDSA and Gaia-X Association are jointly bidding for the Data Spaces Hub Germany

acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Fraunhofer ISST, the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) and the Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL are jointly bidding to coordinate the hub. Together, we want to bring the data space approach into widespread use after the successful build-up phase and make it internationally compatible,” says Manfred Rauhmeier, Executive Board Member of the acatech Foundation. The fact that this work is being continued is an important signal: anyone who wants to make industrial and administrative data usable for sovereign AI applications needs data spaces, and a neutral point of contact that eases entry, pools knowledge and makes the benefits of data sharing visible. The partners are already helping shape Central European data space activities today, from Gaia-X to the Data Spaces Support Centre, as well as standardisation, interoperability and the practical introduction of data spaces in business and administration. The bidding consortium intends to build on these structures, formats and contacts, and to expand, improve and complement them: broadening the scope beyond Gaia-X, uniting the many facets of data spaces, focusing on practical implementation and offering support to those just getting started. IDSA strengthens the consortium with its international community, its leading role in the reference architecture, rulebook, Dataspace Protocol and standardisation, and its expertise in building and scaling data spaces.