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 overarching objective of this action is as follows:
Creating a common research framework with the necessary infrastructure to enable advanced research and analysis on information integrity in the EU.
In order to achieve this overall objective, the action rests on the following specific objectives:
- Securing or setting up necessary infrastructure, comprising both hardware and software capacities, needed for advanced research on information integrity, that can be accessed by third parties across the EU
- Supporting, acquiring or creating a set of dedicated tools to facilitate research on information integrity and the analysis of information manipulation
- Making the dedicated tools and computational capacity accessible to researchers and civil society, where needed through a transparent and effective access mechanism, and promoting its solutions in the relevant communities
- Contributing to the DSA’s data access regime by collecting views from the research community on the data access API’s of very large online platforms required by the DSA, documenting best practices and shortcomings, and representing the research community in efforts to improve the capability of API’s
- Set up and implement a grant structure to distribute funds to third parties from the research and civil society communities
Detailed Call Description
Applying consortia must convincingly detail how they will achieve the objectives and deliverables set forth in this call for proposals. Proposals must cover all objectives listed in this call. They must be clear and well-defined, researched and fully developed taking all time-schedule and budget considerations into account.
Three important, cross-cutting considerations apply to these descriptions on scope.
Firstly, all provided lists of examples for concrete means of implementation should be considered as indicative illustrations only, and thus not mandatory elements for grant applications. Rather, applying consortia will need to base their proposals on a clear, evidence informed needs analysis that is centred on the demands from the relevant research and civil society communities. The sophistication of the logical links between needs analysis and the proposed activities will form a key part of the evaluation process.
Secondly, proposals should focus on quality over quantity: The proposal of a more limited, but highly impactful set of actions is preferable over spreading resources on an overly wide set of actions that could undermine practical feasibility.
Thirdly, an emphasis on sustainability and longevity of the project and its results is essential. Activities should be planned in a manner that caters to the longterm interests and needs of the relevant communities. A focus on elements such as transferability of outputs and preserving results beyond the lifecycle of the project will be an important part of the selection process.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Proposals must allocate at least 60% of their proposed budget to the financial support to third parties. Proposals can suggest a budget with a share higher than 60% allocated to funding to third parties, but not below 60%.
Thematic Categories
- Audiovisual sector and Media
- Education and training
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Public Administration
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Businesses
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Services Providers
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
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 Europe Programme
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc (see section 13 of the call document).
EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’
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