Initiated on April 1, 2025, the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) is co-funded by Digital Europe and overseen by Flanders research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food (ILVO). The project consortium brings together 36 participants from 15 countries, who who collaborate to deploy and operationalize secure, sovereign and trusted data sharing, including public administration, across the agrifood value chain.
CEADS is designed to enhance economic, environmental, and societal value in European agriculture while maintaining high standards of privacy, security, and ethics. By enabling secure and trusted data sharing, CEADS will drive smart, sustainable farming, support AI-powered innovation, boost economic performance, create climate resilience and ecological balance and accelerate both the digital and green transitions in agriculture. This initiative is a direct response to the European Strategy for Data and builds on the foundations laid by the AgriDataSpace project (2022-2024), which mapped the landscape and defined the roadmap for a federated, decentralized data space model for agriculture.
By connecting existing initiatives and developing common standards, CEADS supports:
- facilitating high-quality agrifood data,unlocking value from real-life data exchange,
- establishing operational and trusted data governance,
- deploying sustainable business models for data sharing,
- attracting public and private members to initiate a public-private partnership,
- applying ethical and legal data standards,
- implementing secure and interoperable technical infrastructure, and
- connecting data space initiatives into an EU wide agricultural data space.
CEADS is part of the broader European strategy for sectoral data spaces, working closely with other domain-specific data spaces across Europe.
