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.
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Call
Summary
The objective of this action is to set up and operate a Support Centre, which coordinates all relevant actions on sectorial data spaces and makes available (blueprint) architectures and data infrastructure requirements for the data spaces, including possible technologies, processes, standard and tools that will allow reuse of data across sectors by the public sector and European businesses, notably SMEs. It will also support the work of the envisaged Data Innovation Board in view of enhancing the interoperability of data as well as data sharing services between different sectors and domains.
Detailed Call Description
The creation of the Support Centre will have three main work strands.
- It will support the creation of a network of stakeholders that will have the following main tasks:
- Support the creation of a community of practice in the field of data sharing. The community will have to include and engage in the discussion also the participants to the projects supported under Data for EU.
- Liaise with the actions to promote the competitive and seamless access and use of cloud infrastructures and services.
2. It will work strand in collaboration with the network of stakeholders will have the following main tasks:
- Identify the common requirements for data infrastructure across sectoral data spaces (e.g. technical design, functionality, operation and governance, legal and ethical aspects).
- Define the guiding design principles for the creation of data spaces.
- Identify architecture and technical data governance frameworks establishing enabling schemata both at sector or domain level and for cross-sector data use.
- Identify the common building blocks essential for the creation of the sectoral data spaces and define technical specifications.
- Identify common standards, including semantic standards and interoperability protocols – both domain-specific and crosscutting.
- Identify the potential for synergies between data spaces and coordinate related cross-cutting exchanges between data spaces.
- Identify and promote data governance models, business models and strategies for running data spaces.
- Identify and address legal issues and other market-relevant barriers.
- Identify common toolboxes that could be used across data spaces.
3. It will aim to create a platform to support the knowledge exchange between all actors in the data economy and provide support for the deployment of the common building blocks necessary for implementation of sectoral common data spaces.
- Offer and promote the use of common architecture and technical data governance especially those identified by the network of stakeholders.
- Identify missing solutions by using the guiding design principles and develop the necessary technical specifications. All solutions should be open source software, should be possible to use for cross-data space, cross-domain synergies and fertilisation.
- Test and approve the solutions and make them available to the data spaces.
- Publish good practices for standards, technical tools such as APIs, and provide advice on other practical and legal questions.
- Give access to model contract clauses tested in previous data transactions and backed by public authorities.
- Liaise with all relevant activities in the programme including concurrent data space initiatives, to facilitate access to data for AI, with Advanced Digital Skills actions and with European Digital Innovation Hubs, especially, but not exclusively to support the participation of SMEs.
- Provide support to the preparation of new data spaces as indicated in the Data Strategy.
Targeted stakeholders: Public and private organisations, including SMEs, interested in the participation in and
use of European Data Spaces in quality of data providers, data users and data intermediaries; standardisation bodies.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Coordination and Support Actions: 100%
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- 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 and countries associated to the Digital Europen Programme (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
For the consortium composition see the details of the specific topic, in the Call document.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
It will be announced soon.
(Publish Date: 19/11/2021-for internal use only)