[ddj] Launch SubsidyStories.eu

Wed Mar 8 16:13:42 UTC 2017

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Am 08.03.17 um 17:11 schrieb Anna Alberts:
>
> --- apologies for cross-posting ----
>
> Dear All,
>
> Six months ago we started the project to gather EU subsidy data here
> on these mailing lists and we received many enthusiastic and
> supportive responses and a ton of help from this community.
>
> Now we can proudly present to you: subsidystories.eu
> <http://subsidystories.eu> 
>
> Here you can query, search, analyse all recipients and projects for
> the European Structural and Investment Funds (ERDF, ESF and CF) from
> 2007 to now for all EU Member States (except for Romania due to lack
> of data). 
>
> Below you will find the Press Release. 
>
> Do spread the word and check out the website: subsidystories.eu
> <http://subsidystories.eu>
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Anna, Michael, Bela, Diana, Adam, Levko
>
>
>
> =======================================================================
>
>
> *“New site SubsidyStories.eu shows where nearly 300bn of EU subsidies
> go across Europe”*
>
> /Berlin, 06 March 2017 /- Today, Open Knowledge Germany and Open
> Knowledge International launched *SubsidyStories.eu*
> <http://subsidystories.eu/>: a database containing all recipients of
> EU Structural Funds, accounting for *292,9 Billion Euros* of EU Subsidies.
>
> The European Union allocates 44 % of its total 7-year budget through
> the European Structural Funds. Who received these funds - accounting
> for 347 Billion Euro from 2007 - 2013 and 477 Billion from 2014 - 2020
> - could only be traced through regional and local websites.
> Subsidystories.eu changes this by integrating all regional datasets
> into one database with all recipients of the European Structural and
> Investment Funds from 2007 onwards. 
>
> /"SubsidyStories is a major leap forward in bringing transparency to
> the spending of EU funds,"/ said Dr. Ronny Patz, a researcher focused
> on budgeting in the European Union and in the United Nations system at
> the Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität (LMU) in Munich. /"For years,
> advocates have asked the EU Commission and EU member state governments
> to create a single website for all EU Structural and Investment Funds,
> but where they have failed, civil society now steps in."/
>
> Subsidystories.eu makes the recipients of the largest EU subsidies
> program visible across Europe. Recent and future debates on EU
> spending will benefit from the factual basis offered by the project,
> as spending on the member state, regional and local level can be
> traced. Subsidystories.eu makes it possible to check which projects
> and organisations are receiving money and how it is spent across
> Europe. For example, the amounts given per project are vastly
> different per country; in Poland the average sum per project is 381
> 664 E whereas in Italy this is only 63 539. 
>
> The data can be compared throughout the EU enabling thorough analysis
> of EU spending patterns. Subsidystories.eu gives scientists,
> journalists and interested citizens the direct possibility of
> visualizing data and running data analytics using SQL. The data can be
> directly downloaded to CSV for the entire European Union or for
> specific countries. 
>
> Beneficiary data, which was previously scattered across the EU in
> different languages and formats, had to be opened, scraped, cleaned
> and standardised to allow for cross-country comparisons and detailed
> searches. That we are now able to run detailed searches, aggregate
> projects per beneficiary and across countries, is a big step for
> financial transparency in Europe. 
>
> Subsidystories.eu is a joined cooperation between Open Knowledge
> Germany and Open Knowledge International, funded by Addessium and
> OpenBudgets.eu - an H2020 EU research and innovation programme under
> grant agreement No 645833.
>
> More information: www.subsidystories.eu
>
> <http://www.subsidystories.eu/>Press contact: Anna Alberts | Open
> Knowledge Foundation Germany
> anna.alberts at okfn.de <mailto:anna.alberts at okfn.de> | Office: +49 30
> 57703666 0
>
>
> -- 
> Anna Alberts, Project Manager OpenBudgets.eu
> Open Knowledge Foundation Germany
> www.okfn.de <http://www.okfn.de> | info at okfn.de <mailto:info at okfn.de>
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