- 01.05.2023
Current data science research in the European Union and LeADS project
The emergence of data science, i.e. a section of computer science that studies the problems of analysis, processing and presentation of data in digital form, has caused a wide range of concerns about its compatibility with legislation, which has created a need for experts combining in-depth knowledge both in data science and in legal issues of regulating relevant relations. The LeADS project, funded by the European Union, prepares researchers at early stages (ESR) to become data processing specialists, attentive to details, in a new interdisciplinary profession aimed at solving problems arising in this field. All researchers at the early stage of the project are engaged in important topics related to data protection, IT technologies and data in various fields: medical data, personal data, etc. The project has a rich program, many master classes, trainings and conferences, and the main thing in it is future competitive specialists who will master a unique interdisciplinary profession.
Aizhan Abdrasulova, a graduate of one of Kazakhstan's universities, has taken up this topic and is currently a participant in the European project LeADS. She is a doctoral student at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), where she was sent as part of the project, as well as an independent researcher.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY (Poland) is among the beneficiaries of the project along with five other participants – the Research Center of the University of Piraeus (Greece), the University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), the University of Brussels in Paris (Belgium), the Paul Sabatier University in TOULOUSE III (France), the National Research Council (Italy) The project will last until December 2024. Two researchers were enrolled at Jagiellonian University in January 2022.
Aizhan is a lawyer with a Master's degree in International law. The topic of her research is "The Boundaries of information property: from concept to practice". Her scientific interest is precisely related to the topic of information property, since she is aware of the enormous importance and at the same time the number of conflicts in this area of law.
Aizhan successfully completed the program of the first year of the project, having outlined the main directions of her dissertations, as well as having passed practical trainings in Pisa (Italy), Crete (Greece) and Toulouse (France). It is expected that the next steps in the framework of the project will be individual business trips, which will give researchers the opportunity to get acquainted with the processes of processing and collecting data in various planes in practice. It is expected that Aizhan will be seconded to Belgium, Brussels — to the University of Brussels in Paris and Italy, Rome — to the Italian Data Protection Authority.
After the end of the project, Aizhan plans to contribute to the development of digital and information law in Kazakhstan, applying the knowledge gained for the benefit of his country.
