Data Space Kit

Universal Plastic’s Data Space Kit

Gijón, October 2025

• It’s the “big sibling” of the well-known Kit Digital, also run as a public grant programme by red.es
• It aims to help public and private entities join eligible data spaces.
• Its goal is to subsidise the costs entities have incurred — or will incur — to integrate into a data space, whether partially or fully.
• Grants are awarded on a non-competitive basis, meaning on a first-come, first-served basis until funds run out.

Universal Plastic® has been officially incorporated into the Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS), the global network driven by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO).

This step reinforces our commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water, and places Universal Plastic within the global infrastructure driving digital, cooperative ocean monitoring.

Private entities with economic activity, or public administrations with a certain level of digital maturity, both looking to join sector-specific data spaces

• For example, private entities with economic activity can receive up to €15,000 for partial integration, or up to €30,000 for full integration.
• For public administrations, amounts can reach up to €25,000 (partial integration) or €50,000 (full integration).

WHAT DOES “JOINING A DATA SPACE” MEAN?

For an entity to be eligible, it must meet certain requirements:

• Choose or take part in an “eligible” data space that meets the criteria set out in the governing rules.
• Carry out the technical and organisational work needed to interoperate with that space: adapting systems, ensuring data governance, setting up interfaces or APIs, meeting security and privacy standards, and so on.
• Use the UNIVERSAL PLASTIC APP for beach clean-ups and provide data under UNIVERSAL PLASTIC’s usage policies.

Document the costs and actions carried out to submit them with the grant application ( guided by Universal Plastic’s administrative team ).

In other words: expressing interest isn’t enough — you need to carry out the technical, operational and regulatory steps required to integrate into that data-sharing environment.