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
The objective is to deploy a common European Security data space for innovation allowing research, development, testing, training and validation of algorithms for AI-based systems for security (law enforcement) based on various types of datasets, including operational pseudonymized and anonymized datasets, following the data minimization principle. Particular attention must be given to reducing potential bias in algorithms to be used by law enforcement.
Detailed Call Description
This action will lay the economic, organisational and technical foundations of a federated data infrastructure. Specifically, it is expected that at the end of the project a system and a model of the data governance will be available, thus the project will include the following tasks:
- to develop a reference architecture, to define data standards and to determine criteria for certifications and product quality while addressing ethical concerns and complying with data protection requirements. Standardisation of data should be proposed and the framework may be defined based upon the UMF (uniform message format) project defining data models in a number of areas, such as data on persons, firearms and vehicles;
- to generate, collect, annotate and make interoperable data suitable to test, train and validate algorithms, which should be available for the training, validation and testing of tools using AI technologies, and, when possible, proportional and where provided for by law, shareable for security research purposes. There should be a monitoring process to ensure the quality of the data and the validation of the results. It would focus in particular the technical standard and the content, i.e. that the data is not biased against ethnicity, gender, nationality or other social categories.
The projects will have to deploy trust mechanisms (security and privacy by design), data services which ensure the identity of the source and receiver of data and which ensure the access and usage rights towards the data. Projects are encouraged to perform the study and analysis of alternatives for data collection with maximum efficiency in order to provide interoperability within the domain. Through this concept of a federated data infrastructure, we enable European security stakeholders to develop their potential in a dynamic security ecosystem. Projects under this action should pay specific attention to fundamental rights challenges notably by proposing adequate bias mitigation and non-discrimination mechanisms as well as by providing enhanced data quality.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
After grant signature, you will normally receive a prefinancing to start working on the project (float of normally 50% of the maximum grant amount; exceptionally less or no prefinancing). The prefinancing will be paid 30 days from entry into force/10 days before starting date/financial guarantee.
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- 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)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries
- countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (see p.47 of the call document)
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Eleana Gabriel
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 22/02/2022-for internal use only)
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