Funded by the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission, the ENGAGE project aims to develop a data infrastructure that incorporates information from the public sector and that promotes collaboration and scientific research in Social Sciences and Humanities.
The ENGAGE infrastructure aims to promote a highly synergistic approach to governance research, by providing the ground for experimentation to actors from both ICT-related and non-ICT disciplines and scientific communities, as well as ensuring that the results scientists make accessible to citizens, so that they can monitor the provision of public services and influence the decision-making process.
Through the use of the ENGAGE platform, researchers and citizens will be able to present, acquire, search and visualize diverse datasets, distributed and derived, from the public sector of all countries of the European Union.
Engage is made up of nine entities from Luxembourg, Germany, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, fulfilling these five objectives:
Since its launch in 2011, this initiative has become a new door to public sector information allowing direct access and visualization of more than 52.000 data from 22 European countries, counting already with more than 130.000 resources.
