Governance, Legal & Compliance
Explore training materials covering the governance, regulatory and legal foundations of data spaces for smart communities. Topics include governance frameworks, regulatory and contractual requirements, compliance, legal considerations, data sharing agreements, privacy, and safeguards for trusted and secure data sharing.
This workshop introduces governance in data spaces, with a focus on common purpose, balanced power dynamics and the role of the Multi-Stakeholder Governance Scheme in building trusted local data ecosystems. Participants explore the roles and responsibilities of data space participants, including participatory, intermediary and governing roles, and discuss how governance frameworks help define access, accountability and oversight. The session includes group work and use-case discussions to help pilots map stakeholders, identify roles and reflect on governance questions in their own context.
Green Deal regulations and policies: EU environmental regulations that matter to data spaces
This lecture introduces key EU environmental regulations that matter for data spaces and explains how they are connected to the European Green Deal and smart community priorities. It covers relevant policy areas such as climate action, energy transition, mobility, circular economy, buildings, air quality, water management and biodiversity. The session also shows how data spaces can support compliance, transparency, sustainability and innovation, while helping cities and stakeholders better understand the cost of inaction.
Common Purpose and Balanced Power Dynamics
This training introduces regulatory compliance and safeguards for data spaces, with an overview of the current EU digital regulatory landscape and how to identify which rules may apply based on the data, participants, use cases and technologies involved. Through an interactive workshop and group discussion, participants identify key legal and compliance challenges, reflect on their own data space or use case, and begin mapping possible next steps. The session also introduces the contractual framework for data spaces and concludes with suggested follow-up work, including continued collaboration with legal experts and pilot teams.