PolicyCloud EU

A Horizon2020 project for using the European cloud infrastructure for public administrations. Policy Cloud will deliver an integrated cloud-based environment for data-driven policy management. The environment will provide decision support to public authorities for policy modelling, implementation and simulation through identified populations, as well as for policy enforcement and adaptation. Policy Cloud technologies will optimize policies across sectors by utilizing the analysed inter-linked datasets and assessing the impact of policies, while considering different properties and population segmentations, in order to ensure high impact of the proposed policies. The Policy Cloud environment will introduce a holistic methodology for policies modelling and management based on data artefacts, while also providing a toolkit allowing both stakeholders and engaged citizens to create policies by exploiting Policy Cloud models and analytical tools on various datasets, contexts and policy models. Moreover, the toolkit will allow stakeholders to specify their requirements and parameters to be considered during the collection and analysis of different datasets, thus tailoring policy making. Core to the environment will be the creation of interoperable and reusable models and analytical tools that will use data and analytical capacity offered by cloud environments. Policy Cloud has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 870675.