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 action will establish and deploy a pan-European federated infrastructure for Intensive Care Units’ (ICU) data combined with governance mechanisms allowing secure cross-border access and use of ICU datasets, related tools and resources.
Detailed Call Description
The infrastructure shall primarily address data from acute and intensive care, including data generated from physiological monitors, laboratory investigations, imaging, clinical examination and examination protocols, and therapeutics as well as from emerging omics technologies used during care delivery. It shall be used by clinicians, researchers and innovators with the aim of more precise, faster,more effective clinical decision-making, diagnostics, personalised treatment and predictive medicine.
The awarded action will support the deployment of the infrastructure needed to link and enable access and exploration of the fragmented European databases of ICUs on acute care, intensive care and telemedicine, complemented by a solid, clear and sustainable governance and business model for gathering data, models and best practice, and its exploitation by public and private organisations towards clear benefits for health communities and society. It will provide a harmonised approach for accessing acute care-related data and linking it with other health data sources enabling data discovery and reuse for researchers, innovators, clinicians, AI and data tool developers. The action should contribute to supporting decision-making and improving patient care in the ICUs, through better short-term prediction and earlier identification of critical clinical status of patients, including for infectious diseases. It will also facilitate chronic and inherent risk factor identification, including for cancer. The action shall also establish a basis for data intensive computational model-based tools for decision support and risk prevention, towards a “virtual twin of an ICU patient”.
The action shall address the interoperability requirements so that communication and exchange of data and information within and between ICUs is fully enabled.
The awarded project(s) will use, in so far as it is possible, the smart cloud-to-edge middleware platform Simpl14, and have to work in partnership with the Data Spaces Support Centre deployed under the first WP in order to ensure alignment with the rest of the ecosystem of data spaces implemented with the support of Digital Europe Programme.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
50%
Maximum grant amount per project: €5 000 000
Thematic Categories
- Health
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- 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) 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 include public and private entities such as (but not limited to): hospital organisations, universities, research organisations, industry, SMEs, IT solution providers, governmental authorities (at national, regional, local level).
Consortium composition:
- A consortium of at least 5 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) and which complies with the following conditions:
- Minimum 5 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 5 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