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Data Platform and AI Applications

Mission

The Mission of the Unit is to aggregate, connect, and visualize data aligned with the Climate Hub’s objectives across five components:

  • inputs (funding sources),
  • outputs (research production),
  • outcomes (scientific developments, data, tools, policies),
  • effects (interdisciplinarity, networks) and
  • impacts (SDG links, research outreach)

Its overarching aim is to deepen the understanding of the science, technology, and innovation (STI) landscape for climate research and policy-making, by globally monitoring research activities, engaging with the key actors involved, assessing the ensuing societal and economic impacts, assessing and mapping out policy uptake across administrative scales and internationally, through interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches.

The Unit pioneers cutting-edge AI applications across strategic domains that the GCH relates to (Earth System Modelling, Climate Dynamics and Predictions, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Applications, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Economics, Policy and Society). Further, the Unit contributes to the creation of DSS, Spatial Computing / AR / VR / GeoAI applications and Digital Twins. In these efforts, the systematic integration of data and models is central in elucidating the research processes involved and in supporting evidence-informed decision-making.

Learn more about the work of the Unit in the following presentation

Head

Yannis Ioannidis

Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Natalia Manola

CEO, OpenAIRE

Fivos Papadimitriou

Dr. Dr., Senior Researcher AE4RIA

Team

Maria Boile

Research associate at “Athena” Research and Innovation Center

George Feretzakis

Research Associate at “Athena” Research Center & ReSSES Lab Athens University of Economics and Business

Panagiota Koltsida

Research Associate at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens & Athena' Research Center

Evita Mailli

Adjunct Researcher, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center

Eleni Toli

Project Manager at "Athena" Research and Innovation Center

Akrivi Katifori

Developer

Supporting Projects

IntelComp: A Competitive Intelligence Cloud/HPC Platform for AI-based STI Policy Making

Leading Member, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center

OpenAIRE – CONNECTing scientific results in support of Open Science

PI, Natalia Manola, “Athena” Research and Innovation Center

PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8)  

BlueBRIDGE : Building Research environments fostering Innovation, Decision making, Governance and Education to support Blue growth

PI, Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8)

Collaborations

Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.

TReNDS: Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics

An initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS), mobilizes technical and policy-oriented solutions to advance the data revolution for sustainable development. 

OpenAIRE

Its vision is to transform society through validated scientific knowledge and allow citizens, educators, funders, civil servants and industry to find ways to make science useful for themselves, their working environments and society while its mission is to shift scholarly communication towards openness and transparency and facilitate innovative ways to communicate and monitor research.

AI Papers

Koundouri, P., Feretzakis, G., & Alamanos, A. (2025). Integrating AI into Energy Systems: The Approach of the Global Climate Hub. Link

Koundouri, P., Aslanidis, P., Dellis, K., Feretzakis, G., & Plataniotis, A. (2024). Uncovering the SDG Content of Human Security Policies Through a Machine Learning Web Application. Link

Koundouri, P., Alamanos, A., Plataniotis, A., Stavridis, C., Perifanos, K., & Devves, S. (2024). Assessing the Sustainability of the European Green Deal and Its Interlinkages With the SDGs. Link

 

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