The Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) addresses a wide audience of different stakeholders. We follow a Human-Centred Design (HCD) approach to understand the needs of these stakeholders. To identify a base set of relevant stakeholders, we conducted an in-person workshop with the consortium members. We then prioritised the stakeholders and classified their role in the GDDS. We separated global/EU-level stakeholders and stakeholders most relevant to pilots 1 and 2. As agreed within the consortium, pilots 1 and 2 (water quality and biodiversity) should be the starting point and therefore we conducted eight interviews with the partners (KWB and CREAF) to understand their working practices and interaction with their respective stakeholders. Based on the interviews, we identified an initial set of 30 user requirements.

Our next steps will be to (a) do the stakeholder analysis for the third pilot and (b) conduct further interviews and workshops. We also plan to collect and refine the list of requirements for the GDDS by conducting a market analysis of other data spaces and open data portals as well as a design sprint activity that also could include our sister projects or other projects like BioAgora and GREAT.