Harnessing the value of data in collaboration
Partnerships
Enriching knowledge is our core business, sharing knowledge fuels our drive, and valorising knowledge is our pursuit. By affiliating with ECDA, you become an integral part of our ecosystem.
Government, industry, and academic organisations each uphold different principles, models, and objectives. Consequently, ECDA has developed a collaborative model, available in a range of bundled packages, to facilitate cooperation among these sectors without compromising business operations, the educational value for students, or the scientific independence of our research.
Being an ECDA partner offers several advantages:
- Emerge yourself in state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of AI, data, and digitisation.
- Engage with our student community to gain an innovative perspective.
- Participate in ongoing and new research, collaborating with dedicated scientists experienced in data science, data visualisation, and data engineering across various domains.
- Use our skills and expertise for seminars, workshops, and training needs – within open programmes or tailored to your specific organisational context.
- Become a part of an ecosystem alongside a diverse range of public and private partners.
- Access the Erasmus Data Collaboratory as a physical hub for meetings, training, and co-creation events.
- Participate in innovation challenges within ECDA’s Data Sandbox environment, using a secure and impartial platform for data sharing, analyses, and Proof of Concept (POC) development. This facilitates identifying business prospects and achieving societal impact through student teams and accomplished faculty members.
However, a partnership with ECDA is not a one-way street. We expect our partners to help us enhance our academic curriculum with real-world business challenges and datasets. Collaborate on building various repositories containing use cases, metadata sets, and algorithms, while contributing expertise and knowledge for research and educational purposes. Ideally, our endeavours contribute, in some measure, to societal progress in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
We offer four types of partnerships: affiliate partnerships. associate partnerships, full partnerships, and technology partnerships
Academia
Share insights and findings for greater impact
Share and collaborate on research projects to exchange expertise and jointly tackle global wicked problems.
Government
Lead the way in data privacy, governance and regulations
Be involved with the latest trends in data analytics and artificial intelligence to effectively guide and regulate the development to prevent negative externalities of the untested technologies.
Industry
Gain a competitive edge in the new digital economy
Providing technology to enable businesses and startups to collaborate directly with the leading experts in the field in order to enhance your business performance.
Technology
Enabling state-of-art education and research
Provide technology to enable best in class education and research facility. Introduce and train students and the academic community on your tools.
Academia
Share insights and findings for greater impact
Share and collaborate on research projects to exchange expertise and jointly tackle global wicked problems.
Government
Lead the way in data privacy, governance and regulations
Be involved with the latest trends in data analytics and artificial intelligence to effectively guide and regulate the development to prevent negative externalities of the untested technologies.
Industry
Gain a competitive edge in the new digital economy
Access the latest academic insights and collaborate directly with the leading experts in the field to enhance your business performance.
Technology
Enabling state-of-art education and research
Provide technology to enable best in class education and research facility. Introduce and train students and the academic community on your tools.
Actively collaborating with:
Become a partner
Leading the way together
Become a partner
Leading the way together
Join to benefit from:
Access to talent
Thought leadership
Engage with academics and alumni
Education and training
Data challenges & hackathons
Collaborate in research
Access Erasmus Data Collaboratory
Learn from our partners
According to our founding partners
One of our key strengths is the ability to identify the potential of data that may already be available in your organisation. At ECDA we recognise that potential and facilitate cross-industry public and private partnerships to exchange knowledge, ideas and opportunities.
Coolblue
‘We measure everything’ Online retailer Coolblue is a founding partner and will work with ECDA for at least three years. Pieter Zwart, founder and CEO said: “At Coolblue, we measure everything and continuously use this data to amaze our customers. As a partner of ECDA, we’ll continue to exchange knowledge in the field of data analytics with academics and students.
ING
ING has ambitions to use advanced analytics in its operations globally. Annerie Vreugdenhil, head of innovation at ING Wholesale Banking: “Academic partnerships ensure that we are inspiring our people to innovate at the cutting edge, enabling them to build differentiating experiences for our customers. The Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics provided the ING team with the content, context and coaching necessary to actively contribute to our goals.”
City of Rotterdam
Alderman Barbara Kathmann is vice-mayor of economy, districts and small localities: “Cities need to establish a strategy, build their analytics capacity, and work with partners, including academia, to establish a data commons that can benefit all. The collaboration with ECDA helps the municipality to become more data-driven. Multidisciplinary teams participate in the training programmes and develop a concrete proof of concepts; it’s hands-on training.”
According to our founding partners
One of our key strengths is the ability to identify the potential of data that may already be available in your organisation. At ECDA we recognise that potential and facilitate cross industry public and private partnerships to exchange knowlegde, ideas and opportunities.
‘We measure everything’ Online retailer Coolblue is a founding partner and will work with ECDA for at least three years. Pieter Zwart, founder and CEO said: “At Coolblue, we measure everything and continuously use this data to amaze our customers. As a partner of ECDA, we’ll continue to exchange knowledge in the field of data analytics with academics and students.
Alderman Barbara Kathmann is vice-mayor of economy, districts and small localities: “Cities need to establish a strategy, build their analytics capacity, and work with partners, including academia, to establish a data commons that can benefit all. The collaboration with ECDA helps the municipality to become more data-driven. Multidisciplinary teams participate in the training programmes and develop a concrete proof of concepts; it’s hands-on training.”
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