Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Digital Europe Programme is the first EU programme that aims to accelerate the recovery and drive the digital transformation of Europe.
Worth €7.6 billion (in current prices), the Programme is a part of the next long-term EU budget, (the Multiannual Financial Framework), and it covers 2021 to 2027. It will provide funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The Programme is fine-tuned to fill the gap between the research of digital technologies and their deployment, and to bring the results of research to the market – for the benefit of Europe’s citizens and businesses, and in particular SMEs. Investments under the Digital Europe programme supports the Union’s twin objectives of a green transition and digital transformation and strengthens the Union’s resilience and strategic autonomy.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
This action will support the overall coordination, monitoring, dissemination and long-term exploitation of the activities within the pre-notified Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud and Edge Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) via the set-up of a Cloud IPCEI Exploitation Office.
Detailed Call Description
The pre-notified IPCEI-CIS aims at developing and industrially deploying, for the first time, a fundamentally new, innovative, secure and sustainable data processing production process spanning across the European Union. It will develop and deploy breakthrough technological cloud and edge computing capabilities and very high added value data processing industrial services.
The aim of the projects will be to provide at minima the following three core strategic support activities via the set-up of a Cloud IPCEI Exploitation Office that will maximize the monitoring, exploitation and viability of the developed IPCEI solutions towards all interested Member States, companies and RTOs:
Management and Operations Activities:
- Monitoring and reporting to the European Commission. This should include at minima: (i) the IPCEI project deliverables – including the new solutions developed and industrially deployed – their impacts, uptake and timing, (ii) the key performance indicators associated to each of the IPCEI-CIS project spill-over activities; (iii) the sustainability performance and security features of both the integrated IPCEI project and each of the IPCEI projects and; (iv) macro-project10 outcomes where applicable.
- Where necessary, risk mitigation activities to guarantee effective and timely delivery and reuse of all the IPCEI-CIS project deliverables.
- The necessary ICT tools to (i) allow secure and effective collaborative activities with non-IPCEI participants and; (ii) guarantee external communication activities.
- Support the IPCEI ex-ante application process and alignment of the assessment process of potential new participants after the start of the IPCEI-CIS activities
Sustainability Activities:
- Support the development of the medium-term sustainability strategy and governance of the pre-notified IPCEI in collaboration with the governmental Authorities participating in the IPCEI-CIS and the European Commission.
- Develop joint approaches to ensure that project results stemming from the IPCEI-CIS (such as open-source software technologies) will be maintained and regularly updated and that economic viability of the solutions will happen.
Dissemination and Exploitation Activities:
- Strategically support the pre-notified IPCEI-CIS main dissemination and exploitation activities to reach scale in particular towards the non-IPCEI participants, including in preparatory activities, organization, logistics and content materials for each of its key events and meetings
- Foster transparency of the pre-notified IPCEI-CIS activities and wide uptake of the new innovative cloud-to-edge solutions to be first industrially deployed that all interested stakeholders have regular access to up to data information by for example preparing social media content, to regularly and at large scale communicate about the status and content of the IPCEI-CIS new deployed solutions.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Maximum grant amount per project: €3 000 000
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in EU Member States or listed EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme.
Entities must not be directly or indirectly controlled from a country that is not an eligible country. All entities have to fill in and submit a declaration on ownership and control.
Moreover:
- participation in any capacity (as beneficiary, affiliated entity, associated partner, subcontractor or recipient of financial support to third parties) is limited to entities established in eligible countries.
- In addition, in order to be eligible, all participants from associated countries (except EEA countries) and all entities established in the EU or EEA territory but controlled by a third country or third country legal entities (including DEP associated countries), have to present an adequate guarantee approved by their eligible country of establishment, to comply with the conditions set out in the Work Programme Annex 3.
- project activities (included subcontracted work) must take place in eligible countries (see section geographic location below and section 10)
Targeted stakeholders
The consortium can be structured around public or/and private organisations, used to conduct complex and large coordination and management work with public authorities and private organisations, to monitoring of technical deployments (including security and sustainability aspects), and that are capable to demonstrate a good technical, economic, and policy understanding in cloud and edge computing in a European setting. Professional activity of each of the consortia member must be conducted in full independence from the one of a governmental authority and must be separated from the activities conducted under the IPCEI-CIS.
Consortium composition:
- A consortium of at least 2 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) and which complies with the following conditions:
- minimum 2 independent entities from 2 different eligible countries
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy