The SoBigData RI is consolidating its presence in the European landscape. In 2022, two new projects will become part of the SBD ecosystem, funding the research infrastructure.

On the one hand, the SoBigData RI Preparation Phase Project (PPP) will begin. It will be the first step of the SoBigData RI in the ESFRI RoadMap 2021. The SoBig- Data RI PPP consortium comprises 33 partners from 17 countries (Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Greece, Spain, Austria, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Finland, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, UK, and Switzerland). It aims to enhance the RI from the simple awareness of ethical and legal challenges in social mining to the development of concrete tools that operationalize ethics with value-sensitive design, incorporating values and norms for privacy protection, fairness, transparency, and pluralism.