Building digital sovereignty through collaboration

Working Groups

Gaia-X Spain’s Working Groups are the spaces where the community turns vision into results.

This is where companies, universities, public administrations, associations, technology centres and professionals come together to create procedures and guides, collaborate on standards, define sector-specific needs, promote pilots and shape data spaces.

Each group works in a specific area with the aim of promoting secure and trustworthy data exchange, generating innovation and strengthening national digital sovereignty in line with European principles.

Sector-specific Working Groups

Practical working spaces focused on specific needs and the creation of useful results.

Agri-food

The agri-food sector needs trustworthy data to improve productivity, sustainability and traceability. This group addresses the challenges of the field across agriculture, livestock farming, cooperatives and the food value chain from a technological and collaborative perspective.

Key functions:

Identify sector needs in production, climate, soil, logistics, certification and other data.
Promote data spaces that help modernise and digitalise the agri-food sector in Spain in collaboration with hubs from other countries.
Foster use cases in precision agriculture, livestock farming, traceability and resource management.
Collaborate with cooperatives, producers, technology companies and public administrations.

Lead: Pablo Coca (CTIC)

Industria

Este grupo trabaja para que la industria española adopte modelos de datos compartidos que incrementen la competitividad, eficiencia y autonomía tecnológica. Un espacio clave para cadenas de suministro, trazabilidad y operaciones conectadas.

Key functions:

Promote interoperable and sovereign industrial data architectures.
Develop use cases in manufacturing, predictive maintenance and logistics.
Facilitate collaboration between manufacturers, suppliers, technology centres and SMEs.
Move towards a more connected, secure industry based on trustworthy data.

Leads: Nuria Ávalos / Diego Mallada (IndesIA)

Mobility

Mobility generates high-value data for managing transport in both cities and territories. This group promotes a shared data ecosystem that enables decisions based on trustworthy information and improves the efficiency of public and private transport.

Key functions:

Map the national mobility ecosystem and its data flows.
Define governance and interoperability models for the secure exchange of information.
Promote use cases in logistics, smart transport, fleets and urban management.
Facilitate collaboration between public administrations, operators and technology companies.

Lead: Jim Ahtes (i2cat)

Healthcare

Health data is among the most sensitive and valuable types of data. This group works to facilitate its secure and ethical use by promoting data spaces that support both primary and secondary use, enabling research, diagnosis, pharmacology and improvements in healthcare services.

Key functions:

Define standards for the ethical and secure sharing of healthcare data.
Promote use cases in research, medical AI, interoperable medical records and public health.
Facilitate collaboration between hospitals, universities, biotech companies and public administrations.
Ensure regulatory compliance and citizen protection.

Lead: Alberto Moreno (Virgen Macarena Hospital)

Tourism

Tourism is one of the sectors with the highest volume of data in Spain. This group works to ensure that this data can be shared with confidence between destinations, companies, operators and public administrations, driving more efficient, sustainable and personalised services.

Key functions:

Identify the real data-related needs of the tourism sector.
Impulsar espacios de datos que mejoren competitividad, sostenibilidad y experiencia del visitante.
Promote data spaces that improve competitiveness, sustainability and the visitor experience.
Promote use cases that integrate mobility, accommodation, culture and public services.

Lead: Dolores Ordóñez (Anysolution)

Smart and sustainable territories

Spain is one of the countries with the highest number of smart cities and territories, with strong involvement from public administrations and private companies. This group works on creating public-private ecosystems and connecting them with Europe.

Key functions:

Identify the sector’s real needs.
Promote data spaces that integrate different cities and territories.
Promote use cases that address the needs of cities and citizens.
Foster public-private collaboration to build a model for smart territories and the reuse of infrastructures.

Leads: Antonio Jara (Libelium) and Daniel Vega (FEMP)

Emergencies, security and defence

In the new reality we are living in, with climate change and the geopolitical situation, emergencies, security and defence are becoming highly relevant, making data sharing between public and private administrations essential.

Key functions:

Identify the main data providers and needs.
Promote data spaces that integrate different public and private administrations.
Promote use cases that address different needs.
Foster public-private collaboration to build collaborative models.

Leads: Jesús Otero (Inetum) and Daniel Sáez (ITI)

Grupos de Trabajo Transversales

They are the common foundation that ensures everything built is secure, trustworthy and aligned with European principles.

Legal

This group ensures that all Gaia-X Spain data spaces and services comply with European principles, data protection regulations and digital sovereignty requirements.

Key functions:

Interpret European and national regulations applied to data spaces.
Prepare guides and documentation to facilitate legal and technical compliance.
Support organisations that wish to participate in data spaces.
Create an expert committee to resolve regulatory issues.

Lead: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Ethics

This group addresses the human dimension of data: ethics, bias, social impact, trust and digital rights. Its work is essential to ensure that data spaces benefit society without compromising fundamental values.

Key functions:

Incorporate ethical and trustworthiness principles across all sector-specific Working Groups.
Assess social impact and potential bias in data and AI projects.
Develop ethical governance criteria to ensure the responsible use of data.
Promote citizen participation and transparency.

Leads: Luis Cordero and Patricia Llaque (Seville Chamber of Commerce)

Enabling Technologies

This group is responsible for the technical foundation that makes the technology possible: reference architecture, interoperability, federated components and support for the implementation of data spaces.

Key functions:

Define and adapt Gaia-X’s technical architecture to the Spanish context.
Identify and promote components and services that facilitate data federation and interoperability.
Promote the use of open-source software and solutions aligned with digital sovereignty principles.
Provide technical support to the other Working Groups and to organisations that want to create or connect their data spaces.

Lidera: Txetxu Santamaría (Tecnalia)

Join the Working Groups

If you want to contribute your experience, take part in a specific sector or contribute to Gaia-X Spain’s cross-sector work, this is your space.

Would you like to take part in one of them? Write to us and we will tell you how to join.