# Create a new project
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In Amazon DataZone, projects enable a group of users to collaborate on various business use cases that involve publishing, discovering, subscribing to, and consuming data assets in the Amazon DataZone catalog. For more information, see [Amazon DataZone terminology and concepts](datazone-concepts.md). 

Any Amazon DataZone user with the required permissions to access the data portal can create an Amazon DataZone project.

To create a new project complete the following steps. 

1. Navigate to the Amazon DataZone data portal URL and sign in using single sign-on (SSO) or your AWS credentials. If you’re an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can navigate to the Amazon DataZone console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone](https://console.aws.amazon.com/datazone) and sign in with the AWS account where the domain was created, then choose **Open data portal**.

1. In the Amazon DataZone data portal, choose **Create Project**. 

1. Specify values for the following fields, and then choose **Create project**:
   + **Name** – The project name.
   + **Description** – A description of the project.
   + **Domain unit** – The domain unit under which you want to create this project.