D31.1 Federated data space “Sandbox Environment” description

As stated in its Master Plan, the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (ERJU) public-private partnership “aims to accelerate research and development in innovative technologies and operational solutions supporting the fulfilment of European Union policies and objectives relevant for the railway sector and supporting the competitiveness of the rail sector and the European rail supply industry”; [it] “will foster a close cooperation and ensure coordination with related European, national and international research, innovation deployment and investment activities in the rail sector and beyond, in particular under Horizon Europe, Connecting Europe Facility, and the Digital Europe Programme”.

The creation of a Rail Data Space (RDS) as one of the implementation deliverables of the ERJU is a concrete instance of cooperation and coordination with the Digital Europe Program: its ultimate goal is to align data sharing and communication in the Rail Sector to the European Data Strategy, making the Rail Sector both a contributor and a beneficiary of the “single market for data” for a “data-driven” European society:

• Leveraging the resources and know-how provided by the Dataspace Support Center, funded by the Digital Europe Programme,
• Ensuring at inception and by design compliance with the European legislative acts that complement the establishment of European data spaces (Data Actions)
• Ensuring at inception and by design the ability to deploy the Rail Data Space on Next Generation Cloud infrastructure (Cloud Actions)