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 develop a commercially viable highly secure cloud-based collaborative platform for the management of sensitive multi-country industrial initiatives in the aeronautics and security sector, including civil security.
Detailed Call Description
The objective is to develop a commercially viable highly secure cloud-based collaborative platform which will allow the development of highly sensitive industrial projects, from design to
production. The highly secure collaborative platform should:
- Allow the aeronautics and security sector to reach a similar level of decentralised/distributed working along its supply chain in the same way as other sectors already enjoy it today (e.g. the automotive sector).
- Be cloud-native or in its defect, cloud-based (i.e. deployable and operated from a highly-secure cloud infrastructure), as opposed to on-premise software.
- Provide for a broad range of secure and user-friendly collaborative tools including general purpose collaboration tools (messaging, wikis, file sharing, videoconferencing, chat) as well as more advanced tools.
- Provide for a stack as deep as needed to cater for the specificities of the aeronautics and security sector, including, where applicable, at IaaS and PaaS levels.
- Cater for state-of-the-art security, interoperability, reversibility, sovereignty and sustainability standards.
- Allow for the concurrent management of different industrial programmes without the need to duplicate the platform (for each programme/country/contractor/etc).
- Be anchored in the security requirements specific to the aeronautics and security sector.
- To the extent possible, the collaborative platform should provide sufficient safeguards and security mechanisms so that physical segregation of data is no longer required.
- Incorporate, where appropriate, the outcome of a possible process for defining an EU-level single set of rules and accreditation for data sharing in the aeronautic and security sector.
- Allow for the evolution over-time of the platform, given the very long industrial cycles specific to the aeronautic and security sector (50+ years).
- Allow for multi-cloud tenancy.
- Provide the necessary measures to connect different cloud service offerings with different security and encryption mechanisms.
- Be tested in quasi-real situations, for example by using it in a real co-design situation which, in reality, does not imply particular confidentiality agreements but where hard user access
- controls are simulated.
The following items fall outside of the scope: the provision of the hardware infrastructure to deploy and operate the platform.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
50%
Maximum grant amount per project: €22 000 000
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Justice - Security
- 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 composed of public and /or private entitities, covering the complete supply chain from software vendors, cloud infrastructure providers, research and technology organizations, to aeronautics and security stakeholders, including public authorities.
All members shall be able to demonstrate a good understanding of the specificities of the aeronautics and security sector and in spite of that are able to extend and exploit the envisaged platform for other relevant sectors (e.g. mobility).
The consortium should be structured around private stakeholders (typically: software vendors, data infrastructure providers, aeronautic and security stakeholders, cybersecurity stakeholders).
Consortium composition:
- A consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) and which complies with the following conditions:
- minimum 3 independent entities from 3 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